User talk:Hojimachong/Respect

huzzah! You're a hell of a lot smarter than I was at 15, Hoji.-αmεσ (historian) 00:53, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

Wow. I mean, wow69.216.112.155 00:59, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

Who is the Wow to?-αmεσ (historian) 01:01, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

Hoji (i mean you can have a 'wow' too if you want it)--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 01:02, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

User:SusanG/Respect Susan^{talk to me} 03:34, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

That was just... so good, so intelligent, so compassionate, so reasonable, so... rational. You are an uncommonly wise person.. are you really only 15? wowzers. good job. :-) -- Refugee^{talk page} 06:37, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

here... have a goat. lol

My mini-contribution on respect--Bob^{bing for apples} 07:06, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

User:Human/respect

This was more of a rant than an essay, written as the thoughts flowed through my head. The main points I was trying (and failing) to get across were:

1. Most religious people actually have good intentions, if not a good way of showing it.
2. Though secularists "know" that religion has been a force of bad in the world, it's certainly not going anywhere anytime soon, so we need to learn how to work with it. I certainly don't like many of the ideals espoused by Xianity, but they're there, they're not going away soon, and I need to learn how to "work" with them, while simultaneously working to methodologically destroy their credibility.
3. Respect doesn't mean acceptance or tolerance. I don't have to tolerate or accept Xian ideas, but I can afford those who propose them a modicum of respect.

I might work on this later, and I'm flattered that so many other people wrote counteressays. --Hjimachong 12:49, 21 October 2007 (EDT)