Therefore a person can not take anyone else religion seriously. Meaning they can not fully respect that other persons religion. Donahoo Back to the topics Respecting the beliefs of others in very important in the diverse would we now live in. Many people ask how one can respect other faiths that counter the ideas of your own. The first step is knowledge, the second is understanding.
Ignorance is the mother of most hatred and disrespect.
It is almost impossible to gain respect for ideas opposite your own without learning all you can about that belief system. You must strive to learn there ideas and ways of life, preferable from a non-ethuaseutric percpective. It is not enough to know there ways you must understand at least a little about the ideas and concepts behind those beliefs. If all you know is what they do you can pass it off as stupid or foolish, but when you understand that there action are logical bases off their beliefs and ways of dealing with their sacrid their prejudge fall and only then can respect fallow. You must understand that they belive what they belive for a reason.