RE: Question(s) for the Religious
August 9, 2013 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2013 at 12:16 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 9, 2013 at 11:45 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Absolutely. That /should be how it is. Some take their beliefs very personally and you might be a fool to upset them, that it's if you're particularly attached to your body parts.
Some people take their pet sports team, or political affiliation, equally seriously; often even more so than personal religious beliefs, to the extent it can become hard to tell the difference.
However, whereas I could have a discussion about politics with one or more politicesed individuals, or a more limited discussion about football or tennis (or golf if I can keep awake long enough) without necessitating the risk of losing my limbs, religious belief is perhaps the sole area in which a violent response is practically inevitable to any perceived lack of automatic respect (whether actual or not; in fact, the less actual the better, it seems). Besides which, religiously-minded people don't have the monopoly on being offended, nor the automatic right to be such.
So I reiterate: personal beliefs of any flavour ought not expect automatic respect accorded merely for being personal beliefs, however deeply held.
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.'
