On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:27:07 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
wrote:

>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.

No, the few just make it mighty difficult for the many.