RE: Having Far More Respect For Beliefs Of Non Judeo Christian Theists
February 24, 2012 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2012 at 4:57 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 24, 2012 at 2:36 am)Bgood Wrote:(February 24, 2012 at 1:01 am)Stimbo Wrote:(February 24, 2012 at 12:59 am)padraic Wrote: No belief "deserves" respect.Period.
This. In spades.
But everyone has beliefs. I believe the sun will rise tomorrow and I will wake up from slumber, although it is not 100% guarenteed. I also believe that if I drive through a green light on my way to work that it will be safe because other drivers will stop at red lights, but this too is not 100% guarenteed. I believe that certain people love me and I love them. So why don't THESE BELIEFS deserve respect???
You are grossly fooling yourself if you think you hold no beliefs on your ever-decaying life! You may be ignorant of them, but nonetheless, you believe in MILLIONS of things, both positive and negative, it is your choice.
Buddha is a wise man, beliefs are merely impermanent and relative.
That's not at all what I said. I agreed with pad's comment, that beliefs do not automatically command respect by dint of their being beliefs. Of course we all have beliefs in all sorts of things, it's called being human and we all have that right. But not all beliefs are created equal - believing that the Sun will rise tomorrow is a reasonable belief, based on things such as prior experience of the Sun rising and an understanding of the dynamics of the Solar System (planetary rotation etc). Believing that the Sun will rise because it is being pushed along by the Khepri, the Egyptian scarab god, is not reaonable. I'll leave you to work out why.
I can (and do) respect your right to hold your own beliefs, however I am not obliged to respect any beliefs you hold purely because you hold them, and neither are you to mine, and you may not demand that I do so. Good day sir.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
