One of the most thrown out
lines that the religious use is “you have to respect my beliefs”,
whenever a religious debate is ongoing. But do we really have to
respect their religion or are they just as deluded in this belief as
they are in everything else regarding their superstitious nonsense?
So, what exactly do we have
to respect? The simple answer to the question is almost nothing.
Respect is earned, not given. Religion. on it's own merits, has
earned absolutely zero level of respect. Science has stripped the
ignorance of the bible of it's validity, from the age of the earth to
the origins of the humans species. Religion has been proven wrong in
all of it's assertions without a shadow of a doubt, unless of course
you are Ken Hamm or some other lunatic who is just too fucking stupid
to understand these facts.
Religion has done much to
lose the respect of the human race through it's use of violence and
fear in spreading it's doctrines and suppression of scientific
knowledge and truth. Any place where religion has held a foothold in
government, human advancement has been stymied. The dark ages are a
prime example of what religion does when it has power – 1000 years
were lost because of religious ignorance. The middle east was a
leader in mathematics and science right up until islam got it's foot
in the door and everything came to a screaming halt. There can be no
rational argument that religion is anything other than a negative force in human advancement.
The honest truth is that we
do not have to respect religion because religion has done nothing
worthy of garnering respect in the first place. There is one thing,
though, that we should respect and that is an individual's right to
believe. That is it! We are under no compunction to respect anything
outside a person's right to believe no matter how insane, ignorant or
hateful those beliefs are. The important fact that the religious must
accept is that we have the same right to not believe in their
nonsense and speak out about it in whatever manner we so choose.
The religious argue that we
shouldn't care that they think that we are going to hell or will be
eternally punished for not following their particular belief system
since we don't believe we are going there anyway. That's a piss poor
argument for what is essentially nothing more than passive aggressive
speech and telling us that we are evil for not being just like them.
If they are going to use this argument, then they shouldn’t bitch
and moan about how we have to respect their beliefs when we tell them
that we think they are hateful individuals living in ignorance
believing outdated bronze-age nonsense. Let us also not forget that
the argument of the non-beleiver or heretic being evil has been and
is still used for the persecution of human beings for no other crime
that disagreeing on what superstitious system is valid or not. So
yeah, we should all be pissed off when some religious fuck tells us
we are going to hell because they have a long standing history of
helping to send “heretics” there sooner than later based upon
this assertion.
Let's be crystal clear here,
it's a 2-way street and until these people start respecting our right
to not have their ignorance shoved in our faces and not be told how
evil we are with their passive aggressive bullshit, we are under no
compunction to be polite or say that they are anything more than the
backwards-assed ignoramuses they really are. Just as they don't have
to respect our lack of beliefs we don't have to respect their
superstitions either. Sadly, the one thing that atheists do respect,
that the religious do not, is the right of others to believe what
they want. If only the religious would learn to respect that one
thing and leave the rest of us alone there would be a lot less
contention between us. What they don't appear to comprehend is that
as long as they are pushing their religion on us, we are going to
fight back and tell them how full of shit and ignorant they really
are. Once they learn to worship and believe on their own time and in
their own space, we won't have a need to fight the religious.
Until that time when they
stop knocking on my door, trying to push their lunacy into public
schools and government and stop telling me and people like me how
evil we are, every last one of these deluded individuals can expect
to get a sound “fuck you and your beliefs” as my response to
their proselytizing. Will I ever respect their beliefs? Nope, but I
will, unlike them, continue to think they have the right to believe
what they like, no matter how stupid and ignorant it is.
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