Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

Is the only path to respect and coexistance to ignore the giant Godlike elephant in the room?

well what you have us do? Be rude to each other? Hate each other? War with each other? Force the others to believe what you believe and kill those that refuse? well?

I dunno. I know nothing. I'm just trying to hash out terms.

I can respect another culture. Perhaps your people wear beards, or have a matrilineal socienty in contrast to my patrilineal society. Perhaps you're people like bizarre music or food, or paint donkeys to look like zebras. I can respect those differences without thinking they are necessarily negative, even while my own culture is very different.

But religion? Fundamental belief in the nature of the universe? Can we politely respect eachothers differences in that? I dunno, it seems much more difficult. Or is the only way to deal with it to afree to not talk about it?