Also, please don't think that personal respect has anything to do with respect for your ideas.
Respect for ideas is only proportional to the amount of assault they have endured and survived in my book. This makes christian doctrines about as flimsy as the paper they're written on as far as I'm concerned. The last 1600 years have been a free reign for christian doctrines accompanied by a militant theocratic system that enforced it by shear military force.
I hope that everyone here will show you respect for your person. I hope that everyone here will meet your ideas with spears and daggers and torches in hand. Keep the two separate and you shouldn't feel hurt. I know this is generally hard for most people who consider them selves to be religious in the way you seem to be religious. If you feel personally attacked, there's a little red bordered triangle in the bottom left of the post that you can click on.
This will flag the post and email me and the other moderators. If there is genuinely a personal attack, we will take action against the offending user.
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