On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:55:56 -0600, graham > wrote:

>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.

I have similar friends but of course, they would have to be like that,
if they enjoyed preaching, they wouldn't be my friends I also have
Muslim/Buddhist friends, same thing.