On 2018-07-14 10:24 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:08:59 +0100, S Viemeister
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/14/2018 5:12 AM, graham wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-13 8:16 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On Friday, July 13, 2018 at 3:10:45 PM UTC-10, graham wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In respecting a person, one doesn't have to respect his/her beliefs.
>>>>
>>>> I don't consider a person's religion or lack of religion to be any
>>>> kind of problem. Conflict arises when people have no respect for each
>>>> other's beliefs. Of course, that's merely my belief.
>>>>
>>> Let me put it another way. One can respect a person's right to hold
>>> religious beliefs. You don't have to respect (or admire) those beliefs.
>>
>> Yes.
>
> those are fine words. How do we show that respect when we don't
> respect the beliefs?
>
It depends on that person. I have dear friends who are deeply believing
Anglicans and are good people in every respect. Their beliefs are
nonsense. Similarly, another friend attends a fundamentalist church but
never talks about it and again, is a good person whom I trust (which is
more than I can say about many xtians).
They all have a fundamental right to hold those beliefs as long as they
don't try and force them on others - and these fine people don't.