What is Respect? What Does it Mean to Respect Religion or Theism?
Wednesday July 2, 2008
What does it mean to 'respect' someone's religion or religious beliefs? Many religious theists insist that their religion deserves to be respected, even by non-believers, but what exactly are they asking for? If they are simply asking to be let alone in their beliefs, that's not unreasonable. If they are asking that their right to believe be honored, then I agree. The problem is, these basic minimums are rarely, if ever, what people are asking for; instead, they are asking for much more.
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One of your blockquotes is missing, Mr. Cline. Just thought you like to know.
And anyways, religion does not deserve respect. Considering they don’t respect others, why do they need it?
H. L. Mencken:
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Whilst I can respect the beliefs of the religious, by their very nature they will never learn to respect my beliefs, because of the ‘chosen ones’ ‘divine right’ that if you don;t share the same view you are wrong, ‘damned’ and need to be ’saved’.
Relgions have labels and ways of treating ‘non-believers’ or ‘heretics’ etc, etc, I’m just glad we live in a time where they don;t have the power (anymore!!) to murder or maim those that don’t share the same views as they do.