Reply #78: Personally, I think these kinds of debates.... [View All]

[Liberal Veteran]

...do nothing more than lend substance to the right wing argument that we are more obsessed with political correctness than communication.

There are a few people that wear their religious beliefs on their sleeves and cannot handle that some people view religion as nothing more than a series of rituals that sprang forth from a need to explain our world in supernatural terms.

Does anyone's faith require that someone else genuflect to that faith or acknowledge it's validity? My personal opinion, is no. If I call God a myth, it does not diminish your personal belief or relationship with God and I was brought up to believe that God to take up for himself. In other words, I have to respect the fact that you believe in God, but you should also respect that other people think it's a myth.