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Originally Posted by EatingPie
I think this ties in with what I said above (we posted simultaneously!).
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Yes,
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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Regardless of the expectation, it is absolutely disrespectful to go and tell someone a core "sacred" belief is wrong in the absence of a relationship or invited conversation.
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there is a difference between
a.) the Hindu standing quietly off to the side, hanging with his cow, bothering no one and you walking over and browbeating him
and
b.) the Hindu running around, going up to everyone he can find, dragging his cow around and telling everyone how wonderful his cow is, how everyone should show respect to his cow, how only people with cows are good people, and won't you find yourself a cow today and you finally yell out to him "
what are you freaking nuts!?"
Most of my open complaints about religion (and this seems to tie true of typical other regular posters here) are much closer to situation
b than situation
a.
http://www.infidels.org/misc/humor.archive/lioaca.html
However, when in a discussion about objective facts-- such as the age of the universe or the fact of evolution, it is not even theoretically possible for me to care any less if those facts or the discussion of them "offends" people who's religious beliefs are at odds with those facts.