Racist SC sues store after getting the banhammer over his "religious beliefs"

[Mr. Anubite]

Questions run through my mind with this...

1st... If he's supposedly intelligent, why is he acting so ignorant?

2nd... Now I don't and won't claim to be a scholar on Vedism, but I do know it's one of the roots of Hinduism. What I also know is going to start sounding a little coincidental.

Vedism is followed by the Aryan people. The Aryan people of India, that is. Not the same Aryans that tried to win a world war and continue to do shit like shooting up a Sikh temple.

Swastikas are used throughout Vedism

This makes me wonder if he follows this religion out of ignorance or as a sham to hide behind and "justify" his racist beliefs.

Necrobumping the Hell out of this because it makes me mad.

I'm a convert to Vaishnava Hinduism, which builds on the Vedas. The modern "denominations" of Hinduism use scriptures written later, but retain the authority of the Vedas, in a way similar to how Christians view the Old Testament of the Bible. While I haven't read all of the four Vedas cover-to-cover, because that's tens of thousands of pages, and it takes awhile, I have put a decent dent into them. Nothing I have ever read in any of the Vedas refer to black people. The idea of black beings exists, but not in the racial sense. For example, in later Hindu scriptures, which build on the Vedas, Lord Krishna is described as having black skin, as (कृष्ण) Kṛṣṇa means "black" in Sanskrit. There are also some references to "people who live in darkness," but that means people who live in philosophical darkness, not races of people.

I think you're spot-on with this assessment. Some neo-Nazi groups really embrace the idea that they're the "descendents" of the Aryan people, as opposed to the people from Northern India whose ancestors intermixed with the Aryans thousands of years ago. They embrace this to the point that they claim to practice what they think is a form of "Vedism," because that's the faith of the people they choose to identify with. They don't truly practice the actual faith, although to be fair, nobody really does, with the exception of isolated pockets.

./Rant

Seriously, though. I practice my faith because of it's message of equality for all people, regardless of what you look like or where you're from or what you believe. Stuff like this bothers me to no end.

[Panacea]

The way I see it, religion is like a penis. You may be proud of having one, but there's no need to wave it around in public, or force it down the throats of the unwilling.

Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't mind the opportunity to share my biting sense of humor

Claiming religious belief shows that this "religion" has racism based values. With that in mind, how can someone truly call this a religion?

There are several non-denominational "Christian" sects that have been able to claim this shit in the past, quite rightly under the First Amendment. They include the so called "Christian Identity Movement." However, that is not applicable in this case; the store was not a government store. A privately owned store can refuse service to anyone, as Moosenogger points out.