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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (39166)	11/27/2001 9:07:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

It's so dismissive and thoughtless, and indicates one thinks they are better and smarter. Does that make sense? Of course it makes sense. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do about it. It is a general albeit not universal characteristic of religions that each thinks it has the secret password. If they have it, then the others don't. Some call the others "damned" or "infidels" or "heathen." Some are nicer about it than others. But, obviously you wouldn't believe what you believe if you didn't think it was superior to believing something else, at least for you. You can be tolerant of others and their beliefs and try to be as nice about it as you can. But I don't think you are required to pretend that you think your beliefs are as good as or better than yours. I'm not required to do that either. I am tolerant of all religions. I respect some more than others. For example, I don't respect fundamentalist Islam. Or fundamentalist anything. I don't respect superstition, not in this day and age. I don't think I need to pretend that I do. I don't go out of my way to dis anything, but when pressed, I'm not going to lie about it. And I'm not going deny my beliefs. I'm going to express them in as non-judgmental and kind a way as I can. If that's too distressing for someone, well, it's the best that I can do. Karen