OK...here's the thing on "respecting" religious and other supernatural beliefs....

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28. In the middle of a very similar situation.

Thanks for the OP. I read it as "respect only going one way."

You're expected to sit there and marvel at her miracle stories, without ever doubting or questioning.

I am SURROUNDED by people like that right now. Moved from Los Angeles to the Buckle On The Bible Belt.

One of the most irritating things is the way they automatically assume everybody around them is a Xian. And they certainly don't want to hear about it if you are not.

I posted recently about a local school board tying itself in knots over the invocations at public meetings. "Well OF COURSE everyone wants to hear a good ol' Xian prayer before a taxpayer-funded meeting! And anybody who doesn't must be one of them atheist Commie child molesters!"

Just today, the local Weekly-Wiper newspaper ran a charming "poem" entitled "Hey Mr. Evolutionist Man." With verses like "I've never seen a monkey write Shakespeare." Yuk-yuk-yuk...

And in the FAITH!!! section last week, the paper profiled a local retired preacher who enjoys wandering around and sticking his nose into everybody's beliefs. He likes to walk up to people and ask - "How's your relationship with Jesus?"

I seriously thought about writing an LTTE and telling him I was getting a Restraining Order, and THAT's how my effing relationship with Jebus was going.

Or suggesting he wander around asking that question in downtown Mecca...