http://www.clgs.org/5/openhands/article_simpson_race_privilege.htmlQuotes -'Race privilege: a range of unearned advantages people receive because of skin color. To understand my own privilege, I have had to realize that I am always "raced."Absolving my guilt ("I'm not racist!") or removing myself from blame ("You can't put all that history on my shoulders. . .") was often my initial (if unspoken) response in discussions about racism. Such reactions miss the point. I am convinced that growing up and living with race privilege ensures my participation in racism. Moving beyond blame and guilt means I take seriously the significance of my socialization as a white person.Understanding the social significance of living as a white person leads me to a serious concern with racism and a commitment to work against it. Racism always hurts. It leaves emotional and physical scars. It has caused and continues to cause immeasurable amounts of pain. And it always affects bodies and relationships.and so on.....Wow I'm impressedI particularly enjoyed reading this one....DisabilityQuote:Church laws still say that some persons are not fit for ordination because of their disabilities or their nonheterosexual orientation. The right and privilege of ordination presently belong to heterosexual persons without disabilities.It appears we still believe that the standard for the ministry should be Leviticus 21:17-20: "None of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. ...no [one] who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no [one] with a crippled foot or hand, or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles." (NIV) Even ministry to those with disabilities often does not occur. Older church buildings with their many stairs seem to have been built with Leviticus in mind.read it for yourself....For me discrimination has been one of the most cruelest acts of fundamentalism.

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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God