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Can too much respect be bad?
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Can too much respect be bad?
Do you think that there is such a thing as too much respect and/ or is it a bad thing to respect someone too much?

To me it seems that it is a bad thing and the best example are religious leaders or clergy. It seems that religious people respect them too much that they get away with taking their money, living in huge mansions and castles while saying that they are humble and even having sex with their kids.

So it seems it's not good to respect someone too much, to the point that you don't ever question that person, never look at that person critically.

Or maybe something else is going on?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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Can too much respect be bad? - by Fake Messiah - November 15, 2019 at 11:58 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Anomalocaris - November 15, 2019 at 12:08 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Chad32 - November 15, 2019 at 1:34 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by brewer - November 15, 2019 at 3:37 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2019 at 4:49 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 15, 2019 at 4:56 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Anomalocaris - November 15, 2019 at 5:01 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Belacqua - November 15, 2019 at 5:43 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Anomalocaris - November 15, 2019 at 5:53 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by redpill - November 15, 2019 at 8:20 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by LastPoet - November 16, 2019 at 2:28 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Industrial Atheist - November 15, 2019 at 9:51 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Abaddon_ire - November 16, 2019 at 2:59 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by ThinkingIsThinking - December 4, 2019 at 5:54 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Succubus - December 4, 2019 at 6:39 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Mister Agenda - December 4, 2019 at 11:29 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 4, 2019 at 11:47 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 4, 2019 at 1:50 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Fake Messiah - December 4, 2019 at 4:15 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 5, 2019 at 5:07 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by EgoDeath - December 5, 2019 at 7:27 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 4, 2019 at 2:27 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Valkyrie - December 4, 2019 at 3:00 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by EgoDeath - December 4, 2019 at 5:53 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 6, 2019 at 11:50 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by EgoDeath - December 6, 2019 at 6:28 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 9, 2019 at 12:08 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by EgoDeath - December 9, 2019 at 5:34 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Shell B - December 6, 2019 at 4:52 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by AFTT47 - December 7, 2019 at 2:49 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by LastPoet - December 7, 2019 at 7:14 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by onlinebiker - December 7, 2019 at 10:15 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by Rev. Rye - December 8, 2019 at 1:18 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 11, 2019 at 10:23 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by EgoDeath - December 11, 2019 at 11:05 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2019 at 10:37 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 11, 2019 at 11:05 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2019 at 11:14 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 11, 2019 at 12:14 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by no one - December 11, 2019 at 12:37 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2019 at 1:23 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by LastPoet - December 11, 2019 at 1:58 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 12, 2019 at 11:08 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by EgoDeath - December 12, 2019 at 11:52 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Grand Nudger - December 12, 2019 at 12:42 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 14, 2019 at 10:12 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by The Grand Nudger - December 15, 2019 at 4:22 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by tackattack - December 16, 2019 at 11:22 am
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by mordant - December 20, 2019 at 1:41 pm
RE: Can too much respect be bad? - by roofinggiant - January 14, 2020 at 11:28 am

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