religious friends

[Edwardo Piet]

I guess it's because the strongest focus of my friendships is respect, I respect my friends, I respect their views, if I couldn't they wouldn't be my friends

I have religious friends, and I respect their views. It is up to them what they believe, and I have had long conversations with some of them. Respecting someone's views is not a matter of agreeing with them- there is no way you could agree with someone about ever issue, ever. I look for good, happy people, and that is how I find friends.

Well that'ss probably a different definition of the word respect to the one I think of when I think of religious people then.
If someone really believed in faeries, literally, could you for instance say, or would you tend to think "I respect that"....
I wouldn't. And I wouldn't for God. If someone believes in God I wouldn't think - or say to them - "I respect that" for instance.
I don't believe. And the thing is, I don't "believe in belief" either.
Are you using a different definition of the word respect than me then? Or using it in a different way? Or not?
Evf