An Apple A Day

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3. "It is not my place to say if you are right or wrong in matters of faith and the heart."

It is not my place to say if you are right or wrong in matters of faith and the heart.

See how that works? It’s called called ‘respect”.

As far as I'm concerned, all we owe each other is respecting the right to believe as we each choose. The particular things that are believed themselves, however, don't automatically deserve any special respect whatsoever just because you label them "beliefs".

If you need to believe that global climate change is a myth, then believe that. But when you try to make us all live under policies that mean that my grandchildren, all our grandchildren will inherit a poisoned, dying planet: when you try to coerce our leaders into placing theology, opinion and political ideology - your personal garbage- over actual facts......then you go too far.

As soon as you state that you don't want the beliefs of some people to have negative impacts on the lives of other people, you're already in the business of downgrading those beliefs, of relegating them to be something to be humored, tolerated only when indulged to harmless effect.

That's not respect. And I have no trouble with that personally. As I've said, I'm happy to say that not all beliefs deserve respect, only the right to hold them.