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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is just the sort of cynical view about "religion" that accomplishes absolutely nothing positive, and only serves to marginalise and alienate "religious" people everywhere.
Not everyone who is religious is superstitious; there is MUCH more to it than that. A better approach would be to be more inquisitive and curious than judgmental from the start—your rude and dismissive responses to people are not going to help them see through any harmful beliefs they may actually have, and is more likely to further entrench them.
That does NO ONE any good at all.
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I hear what you're saying and agree to an extent in theory, but playing nice sometimes only seems to validate these absurd and harmful beliefs. The inquisitive and curious stage of my examination of religion came to pass a couple decades ago.
The only respect I can pay to the faithfully religious is to be clear and straightforward. If they're offended, ok. A majority of the faithful live their lives without truly examining what they believe and why, no respect for logic and rational thought. It's not anything they care for or want to investigate for themselves, it doesn't even cross their minds.