RE: Respect towards religious people
March 10, 2012 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2012 at 12:51 pm by Cyberman.)
Any respect I have for religious people comes from the basic level of respect I grant all people, which is to say I don't as a baseline rule consider anyone to be be inferior or superior to anyone else. This basic respect is then modified by what I learn about individuals or groups behaving as individuals - a person who gets drunk and beats his wife and kids loses my respect, while someone who helps old ladies across the road gains some. The actual measure of this loss and gain is situational of course. Basically, I'm like everyone else in this regard.
What I will not do, however, is accord respect to people or groups purely because of their religious beliefs (the same would hold with beliefs regarding politics, sport, television etc). If someone were to say to me something like "You can't talk to me like that, I go to church", they would find me giving very little in the way of a shit.
What I will not do, however, is accord respect to people or groups purely because of their religious beliefs (the same would hold with beliefs regarding politics, sport, television etc). If someone were to say to me something like "You can't talk to me like that, I go to church", they would find me giving very little in the way of a shit.
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.'
