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Do you respect me even if I do not believe In god?

Thank you @hartfire
@hartfire I don't believe in God either, at least not the Old Testament kind.
I can guess why you might want respect irrespective of what you believe.
Believers give non-believers a very hard time.

For starters, everyone deserves respect and empathy, even the ones that might not seem to.
For the first few decades of my life, I had a fierce interest in all forms of faith, spirituality and philosophy. I listened and asked questions of everyone I met, and I studied the sources as best I could.
I found that believers rarely wanted to just share, without an agenda.
If I declared my atheism (never offering any reasons for it since no one asked),
they usually wanted to convert me, or else they would shun me as if it were a work of Satan.
Slowly I shut down and stopped asking. I didn't stop researching.
I can imagine some sort of universal consciousness, but it's a slippery thing to try to define.
In philosophy, no one has been able to prove with logic that the Semitic God exists according to how he is defined. It is not possible for a god to be omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, good, and the creator of this world as we experience it.
The evidence of Creation from the fact of existence also fails when examined at only very simple and superficial levels, but fails completely in the light of stronger evidence from physics and evolution. Not that science has all the answers, but it has enough for an incredibly strong case, a case which on the balance of probabilities, is the best and most likely explanation.
So while all people deserve respect and empathy, purely because we are alive and capable of suffering, I confess that I respect atheists, agnostics, non-theists, and followers of some esoteric strands of spirituality [i]more[/i] than I do the literal creationists and fundamentalists. I have to be tolerant and diplomatic when confronted by their issues.
@hartfire my biggest issue with people are them asking where I get my morals. I usually explain I don’t need a book to give me morals that society and laws give me. But they don’t understand when I explain either. And becuse of my age I have been going to church and at hard to continue going when I know my family does believe.
GardenSage · 36-40, M
Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
GlitterBug · 22-25, F
You belief in god has nothing to do with what makes you respectable, in my opinion.
pentacorn · F
just behave respectfully, and respect ye shall receive.
Prettybrat · 26-30, F
Me respecting you wouldn't be based off your religious beliefs
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Yeah as everyone is aloud their own views and opinions
Straylight · 31-35, F
It's cool.
YoungPoet345 · 26-30, F
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