You respect religions or religious people as long as they are smart?
"People who refuse to believe in the most reasonable explanations are slightly less deserving of both than people who are smart enough to reason through some things"
You don`t have my view of the world and i don`t care how far out is yours or how far out it can be. I respect YOU. and that`s what you didn`t do. "they receive plenty of respect and tolerance from me. So yes, I am very much tolerant and respectful towards people who believe in god" and then you go insulting Mary?
In the end all that you show is that, through your judgment of their explanations being they way you like it or not, you respect them. You should respect them first and foremost. You don`t like what you are hearing? No one ever likes what they hear one time or another. Should we go one calling people names and insulting what they believe, just becasue of that?
