If I see yet another “nobody should be judged for their beliefs”, I will scream. Where is this strange idea even coming from? Of course, everybody should be judged for their beliefs. We are not doomed to our beliefs. If you choose to believe shitty, disgusting or stupid things, that’s your choice, and I’m absolutely judging you for that. And please feel free judge me in turn.
The belief in the sacred nature of beliefs should be abandoned.
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Absolutely. And I don’t understand the “no judging” as in, no one is ever supposed to have a negative thought about some choice or action or belief of another person’s because it’s not nice. I judge all the time — I think plenty of people make stupid choices and have stupid ideas or beliefs, and so what? I am not supposed to think these thoughts because their feelings would get heard if they found out? I really don’t understand why everyone has to approve of every personal choice.
I especially judge someone for all of their shitty personality when with their actions they have no problem whatsoever of infringing upon my rights and freedoms, “Don’t judge me for my belief in Jesus and that life begins at conception while I am busy taking away your right to have an abortion, you murdering whore.”
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Agreed. People so easily confuse the right to believe whatever they want with the right to not be judged for their beliefs – the latter does not exist. Respecting your rights and respecting what you do with those rights are two different meanings of respect folks!
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Depending on the situation and to whom it’s directed, ““[N]obody should be judged for their beliefs” functions as a demand for deference in the language of squishy relativism.
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The subject under discussion that featured the endless “not judging anybody for beliefs” was Spanish fascism. So it was doubly inappropriate.
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Exactly it only leads to tolerance of intolerance,
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Thanks Clarissa for this thread. I loathe religion, all of it, and people keep saying I should respect their beliefs. I never really knew how to counter this argument without being bloody rude, which is what l feel like doing. Now I do. I can agree that they have a right to believe anything they want. I can even (grudgingly) respect that right, but I do not and will not respect their (crazy, idiotic, crass and cruel) beliefs.
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