Joined
·
21,040 Posts
My opinion is basically the same as this.For the most part I take people as they come and their being religious doesn't effect my opinion of them, this holds true for most religions. I've met good and bad people of many faiths and I think most religions do in their way try to make the world a better place, albeit with mixed results.
There are a few faiths I can't really deal with though, for instance when I find out someone is a Scientologist it tends to discredit anything else they say. It seems to me that anyone who buys that it far to credulous to take seriously. They may be perfectly nice people, but I have a hard time crediting them with intelligence or critical thinking skills, especially in light of the many well documented stories of abuse within that organization. Then there's Satanism, while I reject the entire premise of Satan I have zero interest in dealing with members of a faith which fetishizes selfishness.
I fully admit that I don't know the secrets of the universe, so maybe those of faith are right, but if Scientology is the truth then the universe is one colossal bad joke. That's my opinion in any case.