Kudos to our theist members

[Brian37]

@Brian37

I have the same experience in talking to my atheist acquaintances. I might make a certain contention, and the reply is almost always "I respect your theism. Why can't you respect my atheism?" As if my disagreeing with them is, in itself, disrespectful. Humbug I say.

What makes you think I don't hate that too? Now I do agree that in our daily lives face to face life isn't always one big "fuck you" fest. But I do hate it even when atheists pull that word out. It still is amounts to humans trying to avoid conflict. It isn't that we need to or should want to kill each other, that is not productive of course. But the word "respect" is code for "NEVER EVER".

Everything in life is case by case, which is why taboos are a bad way to problem solve. I expect people to value my right to express myself, but how would I be valuing society as a whole if all I ever did is say " avoid the debate and blasphemy in all contexts because people get uncomfortable with it".