I don't think it's just important.. it's vital ! It's how you build human relationships, if you don't respect other's beliefs (any kind of beliefs) you are disrespecting the whole being... and don't get me started in how religious intolerance have caused suffering over the years, until now... =s

yes, it is important to respect ideas, feelings and beliefs of everyone. It is just a matter of respect and it is the base of every human relationship. In my opinion everyone is free to think and say what s/he wants but this doesn't give anyone the right to bother the others with a behavior which aim is to decrease the freedom of other persons and discriminate their points of view.

I say yeah Hurley does because this is the same as 'Hurley is smart', he can tell that dis/respect are not dis/agree. Not to mention dis/convert, thus in this case, disrespect becomes unreasonable, like saying: I just think A, whom I never met in my life and who is arguing with B now 500 km far from me about a topic I don't know, is right. When we stay out of the concept respect, such argument becomes weak and pale. Hurley is stupid. What is religious belief about. Answered before on certain similar thread of yours, and no offense will say this again: religion is fear. Religious belief is a kind of belief, that is like what I mentioned above. Speaking of religious belief, it really depends on individual, how strong one believes in, will one mind if people talk about or even make fun of his religion in front of him in his religion, ways of prayer, how does one consider of atheism and so forth. To respect one's religion is to respect one's fear. The result of disrespecting one's religious belief can be as terrible as presenting a tiger to someone who fears tigers to death because his leg was once eaten by a tiger. Importance Is it important to respect... ? What purpose? What context? You are asking a man who believes in god A and in whose religion there's a custom that one must buy him a cup of Chinese tea if one wants help from him to help you get around to get you the credential that you're dying to get, is it not important to buy him this cup of tea? Whereas like the mid-eastern chaos, is it important to respect one's religion that requires him to kill you? If you already respect others' religious beliefs as the title set, why do you still talk about the importance of doing so? Now my question to you dear professor! Per se, what is respect? So what is the boundary between respect and disrespect??!! Good Q.

Let's categorize and specify the question in two main aspects: Do I respect others. In what aspects. I'm trying to be less theorized, so the ideal is I'll try to respect everyone, in all aspects. Considering that I'm becoming an out and out and out in doors boy as today's youth, a friend suggested me I should go out and talk to the homeless people. The more you deny the noble, the more you'll find out the value of the mean. So from a human's view, we'll automatically say oh I'm noble you're mean, I have wonderful salary whereas you beg on the street; this is the reason why there is a word 'respect', if you think every human being is exactly the same is even you won't invent a concept called respect. That is saying, respect derives from the social (both spiritual and material) system that created by the human beings per se. Human beings are so smart that they build themselves good medical care system, invent magical scientific creations which benefit themselves and that they get killed by falling from a buliding not gravity, building collapse not the earthquake, a brake failure not the inertia, an smoking addiction not the tobacco, urban environment not the unbalanced ecosystem... So are human beings respecting something/one, in some aspects? Do I respect others' beliefs Belief is something really nice. One ought to have more or less beliefs. Because roughly speaking it in a way defines what and who you are, differs a human from an animal, as mentioned above, all aspects. So one of Brian's belief is believe that Hurley is stupid. Should Hurley then respect this belief of Brian's?

Hello! Of course it is important to respect the religios beliefs of others, because when we do so, the others will respect our religios beliefs and this will make real friendships between people who have different religios beliefs,in addition that respecting the others' beliefs is one of the greatest ways to live happily in this life, because there will be no problems with other people, and I also think that respecting the others' religios beliefs is a great part of respecting the person himself! So if I wanted to be valued and respected, I must respect the others' religion.. The Islamic point agrees with this case!