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I probably do have an ill view of all people who follow organised religion and I don't see why someone who is devoutly christian deserves respect.

This is gonna get me into trouble (and a long winded argument?yay), but I gotta say it anyway. What if someone just arbitrarily decided that your lifestyle choice deserved no respect since the parts of two guys don't match up right? Or since gay people can't add to the diversification of the gene pool they have no respect for your sexuality, and by extension you? They?d be total asses with bad, two-dimensional thought patterns, but their ways of thinking would also be very akin to yours. Can you really not see why someone?s faith, their core beliefs that make them what they are, deserve any respect?

You know, you can not like the way someone thinks or think their beliefs are stupid, irrational or whatever but before you decide that their religion is worth no respect remember that you are saying the person is not worth any respect either. Why would you do that in such a broad manner?

However there are cases where I think they do in fact deserve no respect. I would be inclined to agree with you on lets say doomsday preachers and suicide cults. But that is because they are based not on things that could improve your life, but instead fill it with worry, or take it away from you. Those kind of beliefs are founded for an earthly persons gain, (in these two cases attention/irreverence is what is to be gained along with money sometimes), and no one truly benefits except those at the focal point with said shallow gains. They only hurt people. But even with all that defending of what I said, I still make a prejudice against them.

It however doesn?t kill my point, it makes it resolute. You lump all organized religion in together and don?t even bother to examine them individually for their demerits. Examining something, and actually knowing what you don?t like about it is what keeps it from just being a blind prejudice. And since you have no respect for not only for the religions, but the idea of them (I have gathered this from all the anti-religion stuff you have said over the past two years, like the blind following statement and such), that point stares you in face. From these two points your problem starts: you don?t discern the difference between each religion because you just don?t respect the idea of them in the first place, and then you group them all in together with no respect for religious beliefs and therefore have no respect for any of those people.

And to directly answer the quote, they don?t deserve respect because they are devoutly Christian, they deserve respect because they are human beings. Everyone deserves respect, until they do something not to. Having faith in something, yeah that?s not generally something that is going to take it away.

When they're born, people aren't good nor bad, they're like blank sheets of paper on which you can write anything.

Yup, pretty much. But I've got to wonder sometimes what makes two people in similar situations, that were raised in almost identical situations, act so differently under certain circumstances? That's why life is awesome and fate and destiny are BS. I feel more free when I think about how life offers endless resolutions and that everyday I wake up, I can chose what I am about that day. I mean, you don?t even know the consequences ahead of time for sure when you screw up. Life is not random, but it is un expected?opps rant?