vote_for_palpatine said:

But speaking only for myself, I don't believe everyone else is wrong; I have no way of knowing one way or the other. I believe what I believe because it makes the most sense to me.

So you're not REALLY 100% sure about your faith? And you can respect other people based on that.

That's not a knock. This topic strikes me where I live because I'm at the same time the world's worst Christian and the world's weakest atheist. What you're saying makes all the sense in the world to me.

But what about the people who really, really, really believe? People who believe with fervor and absolute unquestioning faith. People who don't believe, people who know.

Can they be expected to respect other people religons? If someone truly and absolutely thinks I'm going to hell, or that I'm sadly deluded, or that my particular god is a myth or perhaps a demon, isn't there something dishonest about talking about how they respect that?