Quote:The religious give us this image...it is NOT one of our own making.
I'll say,that is downright cruel.
I always take mine to my local atheist butcher to be humanely slaughtered and made into a nice roast,ribs and some chops.
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| Poll: Respect for religious people. This poll is closed. |
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| I have no respect for all religious people of all religions. | 5 | 18.52% | |
| I have respect for only some religious people of all religions. | 6 | 22.22% | |
| I have respect for most religious people of majority of religions but not all. | 1 | 3.70% | |
| I have respect for only some religious people of only majority of religions but not all. | 1 | 3.70% | |
| I have respect of most religious people of only some religions. | 2 | 7.41% | |
| I have respect of only some religious people of only some religions. | 0 | 0% | |
| I have respect for most people of all religions. | 12 | 44.44% | |
| Total | 27 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Respect towards religious people
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 I'll say,that is downright cruel. I always take mine to my local atheist butcher to be humanely slaughtered and made into a nice roast,ribs and some chops.
  "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
I can't vote since there is no "I don't base my respect for people on what religion they follow; I base it on their actions" option.
 (March 10, 2012 at 3:07 am)padraic Wrote: My respect is earned. I'd like to think that people can have my respect and even have opinions I'm interested to hear even if they are theists. But you have managed to list some religions for which that isn't true. I don't want to hear from people who practice any of the varieties of religion you mention. Add to these Jehovah's Witnesses. I find lots of religious people who are quick to dismiss people of certain religions as well. 
I respect people but not religion, Religion does not deserve any respect what so ever.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies: Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain 
I respect theists for the most part. Same goes for religions.
There is not an option ridiculous enough to get me to vote.
I would vote for this: I only respect the religious whilst Jeremy Paxman, Little Harvey Price, Eric Pickles and I are at the same Tapas bar. However, they also get my respect when I see Buggy the Clown. Cunt
 (March 9, 2012 at 8:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I am trying to see the respect Atheists have for religious people. I have respect for people (not all of them), but not their crazy religious beliefs.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity. Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist. You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.  RE: Respect towards religious people
March 10, 2012 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2012 at 12:51 pm by Cyberman.)
Any respect I have for religious people comes from the basic level of respect I grant all people, which is to say I don't as a baseline rule consider anyone to be be inferior or superior to anyone else. This basic respect is then modified by what I learn about individuals or groups behaving as individuals - a person who gets drunk and beats his wife and kids loses my respect, while someone who helps old ladies across the road gains some. The actual measure of this loss and gain is situational of course. Basically, I'm like everyone else in this regard.
What I will not do, however, is accord respect to people or groups purely because of their religious beliefs (the same would hold with beliefs regarding politics, sport, television etc). If someone were to say to me something like "You can't talk to me like that, I go to church", they would find me giving very little in the way of a shit.
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.'
I cannot respect religious people. Their silly belief knaws away at my perception of them. I try to respect them for other good stuff, but I just can't.
I might be conversing with one, getting along just fine, even thinking they're nice - and randomly thoughts pop into my head such as "but you believe in fairy tales, you great big adult baby" etc.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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