Comments on Do you hold a person's beliefs against them?

Go to Religion in the Modern WorldAdd a commentGo to Do you hold a person's beliefs against them?

sannhet -- okay I'll conceed that one
My language is a bit blunt, possibly too much so.

posted by gomedome on March 30, 2006 at 12:06 PM | link to this | reply

Gome -
Hopefully you know where I stand. And though I agree with you, I prefer the term "spiritually challenged" over idiot.  

posted by sannhet on March 30, 2006 at 12:03 PM | link to this | reply

MountainClimber56 - It may be a better way of putting it but there are
those (and far too many of them) who outright and immediately dismiss as inferior, those persons holding beliefs other than their own. 

posted by gomedome on March 30, 2006 at 11:05 AM | link to this | reply

I believe that is a better way of stating it, than holding
one's beliefs against them!

posted by MountainClimber57 on March 30, 2006 at 10:59 AM | link to this | reply

MountainClimber56 - I think that is an instinctive human reaction
An individual's beliefs are also their reference point or datum line, when interacting socially with others it is only natural to utilize our own perspectives as qualifiers.  

posted by gomedome on March 30, 2006 at 10:54 AM | link to this | reply

I am not sure we hold their belief against them but
we do compare theirs with ours, and that might be what creates the distance!

posted by MountainClimber57 on March 30, 2006 at 10:40 AM | link to this | reply