First off, it's hilarious to watch people try to shove a thread about respect into their own personal scripts on their pet hates.

Second, as long as we're here, Genesis 1:26: "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

The really interesting thing that's happening here is that "God" has been translated from the world "Elohim" which is a PLURAL noun. God is apparently talking to some other beings which he includes with the use of "our".

The Other People is interesting.

Lastly (probably): while I can respect a person as a human being, and I can respect their non-provable beliefs to a certain extent, anyone who thinks science and religion are equivalent are stupid. I don't blame them. I blame an education system that doesn't adequately explain the difference.

Yes, I "believe" in evolution. I believe in physics and chemistry. I believe in astronomy and that there is a universe that the Earth is not the center of. I believe in things that have been scientifically proven, right up until they are not. Science draws conclusions from the available proof. If the proof changes, so may the conclusions, and science is continuously challenging itself.

Religion, not so much. It doesn't change, EVER for the literal-minded, brittly rigid, and anything that doesn't fit is dismissed. I know very few religious people who fit that description, because they've found how everything can fit together.

Those of rigid beliefs aren't really worth arguing with, IMO. You can't argue with a person who won't accept reality and makes up rules as they go. You're never going to prove anything to them, and onlookers either don't give a shit or think you're as dense as the person you're arguing with: "Oh, let me try this again today, because it wasn't effective the last 352 times."

Sometimes, the only "respectful boundary" involves not engaging...as if.