However, I think racism and similar hatred of whole groups of people is shite, and I think these particular images were 'racist' in that sense.
I think, and here I am quite different from more right-wing friends like
And last of all I think liberal humanists like myself are quite mistaken to say that 'religion is not like race' because people can choose to leave a religion but not a race. Only a small proportion of humans are socially and psychologically positioned to be able to reject the religious culture in which they grew up. You may not like it, but that's the world we live in. Us rejecters are not better than other people, and we aren't allowed to hate religious people just because technically they have the choice of changing their beliefs. No matter how daft we think those beliefs are.