How would you describe 'religious discrimination'?

religious people discriminate against me all day everyday just because i know for a fact that god or gods do not exist.

Religious discrimination is valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe.

A concept like that of 'religious discrimination' is necessary to take into account ambiguities of the term religious persecution. The infamous cases in which people have been executed for beliefs perceived to be heretic are generally recognisable as persecution; Other cases in which adherents of different religions (or denominations) are treated unequally before the law are sometimes difficult to assess. If behind laws, regulations or acts of authority perceived to be discriminating against a certain religion there is the intention 'encourage' people to abandon their beliefs, they are religious persecution nonetheless; But if they don't threaten the death penalty or severe imprisonment, they are in comparison described as mild forms of religious persecution or as religious discrimination.

Furthermore, even in societies where Freedom of Religion is a constitutional right, sometimes adherents of religious minorities voice concerns about religious discrimination against them. Insofar as legal policies are concerned, cases that are perceived as religious discrimination might be the result of an interference of the religious sphere with other spheres of the public that are regulated by law (and not aimed specifically against a religious minority.) Generally people are free to have these issues clarified through the juridical system.

1. Being denied equal access to employment, housing, or educational opportunities based upon one's religious affiliation or perceived religious affiliation. (Exceptions: Institutions can discriminate for some legitimate purposes; e.g., an atheist's society can refuse to hire an evangelical Christian as office manager, or a Baptist Church can refuse to hire a Unitarian pastor, etc. But these exceptions probably do not apply to other purposes, such as hiring cleaning staff or hiring a CPA to do the institution's payroll.)

2. Being denied the right to run for public office, based upon one's religious affiliation, etc. (However, it is not *official* religious discrimination--i.e., done by an "office"--if the voters refuse to vote for you.)

3. Being forbidden to establish parochial schools, paid for by private funds. (But it is not religious discrimination for the government to set up educational standards that all schools, public and private, are required to meet.)

Those are the easy ones. There are also more difficult ones:

4. Wearing articles of religious clothing: Sikh men are required by their religion to wear a small, ceremonial dagger, and also a special turban. Both of these sometimes conflict with various civil laws and commercial regulations. When to allow, when to deny? It's difficult to sort out.

5. Attire and behavior of teachers in public schools: Can a grade school teacher wear jewelry depicting a cross, a Star of David, an ankh (ancient Egyptian symbol), a pentagram, a Hindu deity? Can a Catholic nun, or a conservative Muslim woman, cover her head in the classroom? Can a conservative Mennonite (as opposed to a "plain" Mennonite) wear a prayer covering in class (looks roughly like a pillbox hat made of lace)? What if a child asks what the symbol, or item of clothing, means--how detailed of an answer is acceptable, or not?

6. If a woman goes to an emergency room because she has been raped, is it religious discrimination to require a nurse with religious objections to abortion to give the raped woman a "morning-after" contraceptive pill?

7. Teaching evolution in the public schools: The overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is that evolution is well-documented fact. Is it religious discrimination, to tell school students that evolution is the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community--when clearly, it truly *is* the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community?

8. What to do when the parents of a sick child insist upon taking that child to a faith healer instead of to a medical doctor? If the state takes custody of the sick child and forces it to undergo standard medical care, is that a form of religious discrimination--or not? Where does the governmental interest begin, and the rights of the parents end?

9. Fundamentalist sects that have left the Mormon Church because they want to retain the practice of polygamy: Is plural marriage illegal, if the man has only one legal wife but also one or more common-law wives? Is it fraud for the other wives to collect food stamps as single mothers? Is it child abuse for parents to give ther written consent for an underage daughter to become a plural wife (this is often legal when applied to underage women entering into monogamous marriages)? Is it child abuse, for a child to be raised by parents who practice plural marriage? Where, exactly, does one draw the line between religious discrimination, and the prosecution of a crime?

10. Is it religious discrimination to require people to work on religious holidays? Does it matter whether this is a weekly holiday or a yearly holiday?

religious discrimination-inabilty for people to practise virtues in religion eg

1.banning of wearing head scarf,

2.banning polygamy,

3.difficulty/not issuing visa for pilgrimage.

4.not getting building approval for use as mosque

5.difficulty/not issuing visa for visit to US

Our God Yahweh started the concept of religious discrimination when He saved eight of His people and drowned the rest of the believers of false religions in a worldwide flood.

It's being double checked at the airport before boarding the plane just because I'm a muslim while everyone else just passed through easily.

this is impossible to do without more specific info...Billy Graham crusade only hires born agains. dyk that? Employers do what they want.

Mistreating someone based on their religion.