RE: How can Christians and Atheist respect each other's beliefs?
September 29, 2014 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2014 at 6:26 pm by Simon Moon.)
Individual people can be respected, their beliefs do not.
If you hold beliefs that are unsupported by evidence and valid and sound logic, there is no way I can respect them.
Respect is earned.
If you keep your beliefs to yourself and don't try force them on others, especially through legislation, that goes a long way towards the person earning my respect. But their beliefs are still not worthy of respect.
No, government should not be atheist, it should be secular. Which is the way the US government was created.
The opposite of a religious based government is not an atheist government, it is a secular government.
If you hold beliefs that are unsupported by evidence and valid and sound logic, there is no way I can respect them.
Respect is earned.
If you keep your beliefs to yourself and don't try force them on others, especially through legislation, that goes a long way towards the person earning my respect. But their beliefs are still not worthy of respect.
(September 26, 2014 at 10:07 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: I guess that would beg the question, should goverment be an atheist structure?
No, government should not be atheist, it should be secular. Which is the way the US government was created.
Quote:With all due respect of course, some would argue that atheism is a religion (a minefield discussion I'm well aware of), so would that mean that goverment should, instead of being anti-religious, be "a-religious", if you will? In layman's terms, should government not recognize any particular religous/non-religious values?
The opposite of a religious based government is not an atheist government, it is a secular government.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
