(January 6, 2016 at 10:12 pm)Old Baby Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 9:47 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Touche. You cannot fathom anyone having different experiences than you and coming to different conclusions than you, unless that person was some sort of unthinking idiot or something.
I can 100% fathom it. I'm not an unthinking idiot and for many years I was a theist. The notion that everyone who believes in God is an unthinking idiot is one of the most ignorant ideas going around in the atheist community. My conclusion was just as set in stone as any believer's, but things changed for me and I moved to a different conclusion. It happens.
I can respect that completely.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
