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RE: R - E - S - P - E - C - T : the new sanitized edition
November 19, 2014 at 1:54 pm
The person is what matters. Respect is earned as well as disrespect.
If someone wants to discuss his religious beliefs, fine, I have no problem with that. If someone's only out to preach, then we have a problem. Also I have a very hard time respecting those, who refuse to educate themselves. I'm not asking them to give up their faith, but I do ask them to show some willingness to accept that not everything in the bible or any other holy book has happened literally and that science isn't just a conspiracy out to get them.
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RE: R - E - S - P - E - C - T : the new sanitized edition
November 19, 2014 at 2:38 pm
I liked the old thread better. Did someone complain?
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RE: R -E - S - P - E - C - T: Who gets it and who decides?
November 19, 2014 at 10:46 pm
Thanks to LastPoet for the fix. Maybe everyone interested has had their say. Apologies to those who were offended by the earlier OP. I didn't realize that referring to people's obvious and acknowledged apologetics would be deemed insulting. Or perhaps it was the way I characterized someone's pet theory. Oh well, bury the hatchet.
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RE: R -E - S - P - E - C - T: Who gets it and who decides?
November 20, 2014 at 1:05 am
as long as no one screams hell fire brimstone or your a sinner they are fine in my book.
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RE: R -E - S - P - E - C - T: Who gets it and who decides?
November 20, 2014 at 9:55 am
(November 19, 2014 at 10:46 pm)whateverist Wrote: Oh well, bury the hatchet.
"That's
my motto as well."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: R -E - S - P - E - C - T: Who gets it and who decides?
November 20, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Heh heh heh. HaHAHahah! Nice .. and .. deep.