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U.S. Janet B.

On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:39:40 -0300, wrote:

>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.

of the millions of people on this globe with a religious faith of some
sort, most don't try to force that belief on anyone else.