Q: Why is racism a religion?

A: “As a religion, racism shares all the essential characteristics of every other religion (secular or supernatural).  Thus, racism has its own:

(4) Symbolisms, which are an attempt to express the essence of the racist faith by evoking a religious emotion in the follower; in Nazi Germany the symbols included the swastika, the stretched- out hand and the phrase ‘Heil Hitler. …”

~ Samuel Koranteng- Pipim, Must We Be Silent? : Issues Dividing Our Church, p. 324