{"id":2669,"date":"2015-03-14T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:05:50","slug":"respect-the-religious-beliefs-of-others-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2015\/03\/respect-the-religious-beliefs-of-others-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect the Religious Beliefs of Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>From\u00a0The Way to Happiness,<\/em> a nonreligious, common-sense moral code, written by L. Ron Hubbard:<\/p>\nTolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance down all the history of Man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very non-survival\u00a0activity.<\/p>\nReligious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to\u00a0trouble.<\/p>\nPhilosophers since the times of ancient Greece have disputed with one another about the nature of God, Man and the universe. The opinions of authorities ebb and flow: just now the philosophies of \u201cmechanism\u201d<a id=\"footnoteref1_1ffhfo4\" class=\"see_footnote decorated-link\" style=\"color: #326188;\" title=\" mechanism: the view that all life is only matter in motion and can be totally explained by physical laws. Advanced by Leucippus and Democritus (460 B.C. to 370 B.C.) who may have gotten it from Egyptian mythology. Upholders of this philosophy felt they had to neglect religion because they could not reduce it to mathematics. They were attacked by religious interests and in their turn attacked religions. Robert Boyle (1627\u20131691), who developed Boyle\u2019s Law in physics, refuted it by raising the question as to whether or not nature might have designs such as matter in motion.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaytohappiness.org\/thewaytohappiness\/precepts\/respect-the-religious-beliefs-of-others.html#footnote1_1ffhfo4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cmaterialism\u201d<a id=\"footnoteref2_e83rfss\" class=\"see_footnote decorated-link\" style=\"color: #326188;\" title=\" materialism: any one of a family of metaphysical theories which view the universe as consisting of hard objects such as stones, big or very small. The theories seek to explain away such things as minds by saying they can be reduced to physical things or their motions. Materialism is a very ancient idea. There are other ideas.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaytohappiness.org\/thewaytohappiness\/precepts\/respect-the-religious-beliefs-of-others.html#footnote2_e83rfss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a>\u2014dating as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece\u2014are the fad: they seek to assert that all is matter and overlook that, neat as their explanations of evolution may be, they still do not rule out\u00a0additional\u00a0<\/em>factors that might be at work, that might be merely using such things as evolution. They are today the \u201cofficial\u201d philosophies and are even taught in schools. They have their own zealots who attack the beliefs and religions of others: the result can be intolerance and\u00a0contention.<\/p>\nIf all the brightest minds since the fifth century B.C. or before have never been able to agree on the subject of religion or anti-religion, it is an arena of combat between people that one would do well to stay out\u00a0of.<\/p>\nIn this sea of contention, one bright principle has emerged: the right to believe as one\u00a0chooses.<\/p>\n\u201cFaith\u201d and \u201cbelief\u201d do not necessarily surrender to logic: they cannot even be declared to be illogical. They can be things quite\u00a0apart.<\/p>\nAny advice one might give another on this subject is safest when it simply asserts the right to believe as one chooses. One is at liberty to hold up his own beliefs for acceptance. One is at risk when he seeks to assault the beliefs of others, much more so when he attacks and seeks to harm them because of their religious\u00a0convictions.<\/p>\nMan, since the dawn of the species, has taken great consolation and joy in his religions. Even the \u201cmechanist\u201d and \u201cmaterialist\u201d of today sound much like the priests of old as they spread their\u00a0dogma.<\/p>\nMen without faith are a pretty sorry lot. They can even be given something to have faith in. But when they have religious beliefs, respect\u00a0them.<\/p>\nThe way to happiness can \nbecome contentious when one \nfails to respect the religious \nbeliefs of\u00a0others.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewaytohappiness.org\/sites\/default\/files\/twth-endpoint.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"30\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From\u00a0The Way to Happiness, a nonreligious, common-sense moral code, written by L. Ron Hubbard: Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance down all the history of Man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very non-survival\u00a0activity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,7,420,1157,442,910],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happiness","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-moral-code","tag-religious-beliefs","tag-religious-tolerance","tag-respect"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Respect the Religious Beliefs of Others<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From\u00a0The Way to Happiness, a nonreligious, common-sense moral code, written by L. 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