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I'm sorry, Nova. But how we got from legions of angels to gay marriage (that is what you're referring to, isn't it?) is quite literally beyond me. And I don't know if this is the appropriate thread to voice that issue on.Oh, please. The reference to civil rights was a parenthetical expression and I doubt anyone misunderstood it in context.
HC, why do your magical beliefs deserve my "respect"? Unless you can prove their validity, why are they more deserving than anyone else's imaginary notions? I don't demand that you "respect" my magical beliefs. You can agree with them or laugh yourself silly. It's all the same to me.
At the same time, slightly less than half of all Americans think I deserve fewer civil rights primarily based on their magical thinking. In their cases, I think it's quite reasonable that I not only don't "respect" their beliefs, I actively DISrespect them.
What you DO deserve is protection from discrimination because you hold beliefs in phenomena that cannot be observed. And that is provided by law.
And I certainly don't agree that you should actively "DISrespect" anyone for their faith.
Sorry, Nova, but once again, you've led conversation into a dead end, at least for me, and I'm not willing to have any further conversation about this with you on this particular thread (but by all means, we can converse topically on other topics...as we've tried before).
As for me, I believe that the writer had an amazing, life changing experience that she believes were legions of angels. And I respect her for that.
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