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ConservativeCommunist
That is the single most asinine thing I've heard yet. You tell me that I should respect them, so they will respect me? Excuse me for a bloody moment if I just go about the textual equivalent of slapping a bit of sense into you:
These people voice death threats against me, they deny me basic human rights, they try to legislate science out of scientific education, medicine out of medicine, and you suggest that I should respect them, if I want them to respect me? They have no respect for any of us, in their core beliefs. You either toe their party line, or you get lined up against the metaphorical wall, and shot, only to have it done over and over again (in their beliefs), for eternity. There is no respect, there is no quarter to be given there. If they weren't restrained by secular law, they would be right back to hanging people, torturing them to death, and subjugating whole cultures. For what? A bullshit figment of an idea that has been demonstrably proven to be complete and utter bollocks.
There is nothing worthy of respect. They genuinely are idiots, and they would be murderous, violent idiots, given the chance to return to the twelfth century. Hell, given your logic, perhaps the Haitians should have shown Papa Doc a little more respect, and perhaps his secret police wouldn't have raped and slaughtered their way through his own nation quite so much. Not that he didn't already inspire enough terror-born 'respect' in the name of equally invalid religious boojum as Christianity. What the bloody hell do you think would happen, if Santorum, or Bachmann got elected? It would be a repeat, under the banner of the cross.
You do not fight off a wild dog by paying homage to it, you either put it down, or tame it and civilize it.