is detroying someones religious beleifs unethical?

But I think it is sort of arrogant to assume one ( This means ANYONE) can 'destroy' someones belief system.
It takes many years, and as someone else said, many questions to change your religious beliefs.
I was raised christian.. southern baptist to be exact.
10 years later, nothing of christianity rings as true to me anymore. I can not believe that folks buy it anymore . But that is just my opinion.

But to think that one conversation destroys someones life foundation, is just.. TOO MUCH.

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"The truth shall set you free" may be construed as an absolute statement as might "Truth is relative".

Chumly wrote:

"The truth shall set you free" may be construed as an absolute statement as might "Truth is relative".

You are responsible for you and your relationship with truth, others are responsible for themselves and their relationship with truth. When you violate this boundary you violate others.

Getting back to the core question, I have never seen the truth, relative or otherwise, destroying religious beliefs...

On the other hand, as far as I'm corcerned, religious beliefs are highly unethical..

shewolfnm wrote:

But I think it is sort of arrogant to assume >snipped</quote>snipped<.

( I cut the quotes short because it isnt entirely about the content of those posts that I want to respond to.. but those posts started this thought I have..)
Besides that, it keeps the page shorter.


My other thought on this, and again.. let me say this is not meant to insult anyone or put OG on the spot. This is my opinion and my thought process only.

I might be a little old fashioned with this thought but I would never, ever , ever approach my mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, or any other elder family member with the intent of changing , insulting, or belittling their beliefs.
To me personally, that seems very arrogant and completely rude.

I was brought up to accept my family as they are no matter their quirks .

My mother exhausts me with her constant , sometimes mindless attempts to convince me I need to go to church with her. But she is my mother. She is allowed to do that. She is allowed to give me direction, and suggestions. She is my mother. That is her job. I am her child, not her peer, I do not have that power when it comes to things like that.

She also knows I am not christian anymore, though I do not sit down and explain why. That is where I feel I am crossing the line of basic respect to my mother . I would only have the motivation to try to convert her.. .just as she does me.. But I do not see this as OK behavior for a child. And no matter how old I get, I am still her child. I also dont sit down to explain how I believe because I dont want to damage her belief system . I do not want to be responsible for that heart ache, that confusion, that anguish.
Someone did that to me and , though I was 100% receptive to it, it was a huge blow.
I am thankful now that I met the person who did this for me, but I could no imagine being responsible for putting that kind of rift in my mothers life. I am not here to do that to her.

A banter, a discussion, a debate.. between friends, similar aged people, neighbors etc.. That is where I think the motivation to change someone -may- be acceptable. But when it comes to your elder family members, I think it does not belong.

I sometimes feel as though most of my generation has truly lost that basic respect for their family and it bothers me. We should not be cussing , yelling and telling our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles what to do, where to go, or where to shove it. Nor should we be making attempts to have them " see our way" on such personal issues.

but, this is a completely different argument that may not belong here, but I wanted to post it anyway.

Especially when they insist that out of the thousands of myths, creation and otherwise, found in the literature of all the ages, theirs and only theirs is not a myth, but is real. Name one of the thousands of religions which does not make that claim.

Religious people seem to do just fine when they are making up beliefs based on myth for themselves. (Although, isn't it a wonder that women always end up secondary to men? God's only consistency, yes? Sigh.)

It's the believers tendency, their drive, to extend those beliefs and their attendant rules on the rest of humankind where they put themselves squarely in front of any challenge to their myths. Especially when they insist that out of the thousands of myths, creation and otherwise, found in the literature of all the ages, theirs and only theirs is not a myth, but is real. Name one of the thousands of religions which does not make that claim.

Golly, someone's getting their religious beliefs challenged?

Joe(Good, they asked for it.)Nation

anyways, i decided to spark up the debate again, my dads not one to give up easily.

this time i let him win

With so much so-called "wisdom" hanging around, and so many believers in said "wisdom", it's a wonder any mistakes are still made. Must be all done by those pesky nonbelievers in said "wisdom".