>I don't care if you believe in the Great Pumpkin. What bothers me is when you insist that *I* do. I know otherwise, and most of the time I don't bother >to argue. But since we are talking about this, really. Where do people get off telling me what I believe, and then telling me I am wrong, not about the >nature of God -- those disagreements are to be expected -- but in the way I describe the religion I was taught as a child? Why should I have to >repeatedly explain to the same people that this is not the case? This "Catholics worship statues" thing is a particularly ingrained belief in some people, >and I can't say that I understand the reason for that, unless it gives their sect an "other" to be the bad guy.
I am with Dana on this.
Obviously, by nature believing that something is true, means that you believe that other things are untrue. If you want people to RESPECT YOUR BELIEFS then you need to respect other people's beliefs. I find it very difficult to understand how someone who is a follower of X religion can bash Y religion and expect to be spared the same scrutiny. There is no proof that any religion is "right" and another is "wrong" so there isn't a whole lot of point discussing how "wrong" it is for people to pray to "idols" (whether its true or not).
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