Getting back to the video, Alain addresses his concept of atheists better understanding the good things religion has inspired people to create and bringing into our lives. I am far more interested in how you treat other people and your relationships, whether business or personal, than I am in what you believe in. I believe we can replace the word “politics” with “religion” and it is equally true. Pull that on me and I become stone deaf.Ī respected Law Professor of mine once said if he had to choose between someone without what he would consider the “right” politics, but who was nevertheless a good person, and one who had the “right” politics, but was lacking in the humanity department, he would always choose the former. The only thing that can botch any chance of our having a relationship is if you insist that your belief is superior and, therefore, I must accept it to be truly worthy. It seems to me that how we live our lives, not what we say we believe or have faith in, is the most important discriminator in how well we can work together in pursuit of common goals. What you believe in terms of a higher power is really none of my business and should in no way affect my relationship with you.
), faith and how we should exercise it ourselves and respect it in others. I have what I think is a very simple, very open attitude toward religion or, more accurately (because religion is an entirely different animal from.
I’ll come back to this, and other, issues regarding faith, religion, morality, ethics, community, etc. This issue can best be understood in several concepts that Alain discusses in this talk, which I’ll leave you to in a moment. I recently was pointed to a wonderful TED Talk, which I’m sharing here, that brilliantly addresses an issue I have struggled with for years.
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