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Originally Posted by BlackAce
Are you kidding me? Respect?? Religion is a major breeding ground for producing closeminded, judgmental, respectless humans... All religions! It's built right into the brainwas, er, teachings... I am just having a little fun here and surprise, surprise the religious snipers show up in full verbal force... I will put my beliefs up against any religion worldwide and walk away with a smile...
I'll show my own way out of this thread... but I am just saying, don't talk to me about religious respect... That is simply a blatant drive-by insult
... and now I say good day!  ...and again, lots of love CPers |
Wow, you're going to go off about respect, after all the tirades about how people who belive something are stupid, and mentally deficient.
Let's see, the majority of the admitedly religous folks in this thread are saying things along the lines of "who cares what people think, let them believe whatever they want". While also making note of the fact that extremism in almost all cases is not justifiable.
Meanwhile you, the professed athiest, are the one being intollerant, and unaccepting that people may view the world differently than you.
Myself, I was raised Roman Catholic, but at this point I'd put myself in the don't really believe category, and I'm of the opinion that respect is a quality of the individual, not the religion.
I'd say the vast majority of religious people are more than happy to go about believing what they believe and to let others do the same.
By the same token, most athiests are cool with doing the same.
On both sides, you've got intollerant ######s who feel the need to tell others their beliefs or lack there of are stupid and childish.
Those are the types of people who do things like protest funerals with "God Hates Fags" signs, or blow themselves up in a crowded market, or bitch and complain that everyone's "fairytales" are a huge insult to them, and feel the need to tell everyone on an internet board that they are stupid.
Surely those are different levels of disrespect, but no matter what level you are at, being a disrespectful jerk, is being a jerk.
I see no difference between the athiest who goes about his day, and accepts that some people need something to belive in, and the Catholic, Jew, or Muslim, who goes about his day and accepts that there are a bevy of different belief systems in the world, and that theirs works for them.
Likewise, I don't make a distinction between the fanatic who stands on a street corner yelling at people that they'll go to hell becasue "God Hates Fags", and the typical "Persecuted Athiest" who takes every religious symbol that they come across as a personal insult, sees it as "having religion forced down my throat" and tells anyone within a 10 mile radius of a church that they're mentally deficient because they belive in fairy tales.
Edit: I guess the main takeaway from this is that it is more important to base your respect for someone on their actions, rather than their beliefs. And right now, your actions/posts, aren't exactly what I'd hold up as great examples of respectful actions.