“There’s no hate like christian love.”

How do you reconcile being a good person, with respecting other people’s beliefs, and not trying to convert people?

By your own system of belief, your inaction allows evil to reign.

I absolutely do blame religion for some the worst behaviours exhibited by believers, as it puts them in an impossible position.

If a genuine believer loves a non-believer, how can they be a good person within their own world view, if they do not try to save them?

But if they do try to save them, they will fail to be good person in the world view of the person they are trying to save.

You can’t do both, and as far as I can tell, most religions work this way.

To treat people with real respect believers universally have to engage in some of the most precarious double-think I can imagine.

It isn’t fair to anyone that you have to “suspend your disbelief” for reality the way we do for fiction, just to come across as a reasonable person.