I was joking.

If I thought you had a deluded belief it would be dishonest of me to respect it. I have to confine myself to respecting you as a person who, like all the rest of us, is full of flaws. Your flaws might be a bit different to mine, that's all. You might be the finest chap in the neighbourhood to talk cricket with or the town's best whistle player. Grand, all that I can respect and admire and be in awe of. But I can't respect a belief you have that is founded on nothing except tendentious witness, hearsay, tradition, an ancient and heavily-flawed book, what equally-deluded people have told you to believe and downright superstition. We probably won't even talk about it. I can live with that. As ever, what I can't respect is a person who wishes to propagate deluded beliefs to other, impressionable people.