it's true. i couldn't care less what you believe. or believe in. any of you. because chances are i will respect, accept, and try to understand you regardless of what you do or don't "believe".
with the obvious exceptions of ALL socially intolerable "beliefs" (racial supremacy being one of many examples), if you are enriched by something i can't fathom, then i will stand aside with every courtesy and let you get on with your thing.
i stand firm in everything i believe, yet i am long past viewing it as my personal responsibility to challenge anybody who dares oppose the views i spent 34 years creating. i credit others with having made a similar journey of their own, with their beliefs being formed in much the same way as mine were, regardless of their eventual conclusion.
i don't mind if you worship an egg whisk. you can believe that a master race of giant dung beetles are preparing to invade us for all i care. sure, that may not make you the most appealing of dinner guests, but the fact remains that you are just loving those dung beetles. ok, they mean a lot more to you than they do to me. but so what if i don't understand why ? do i have to ? am i vain enough to think that i should "set you straight" ? frankly, no. i'm not.
because you got to your own conclusions somehow. and i just don't know what you know. i can't. and unless i can borrow your entire life experience for a while there is no way i can ever know. i can never walk around inside your consciousness. so, even if you do talk to people that aren't there, how can i know for sure that your mind isn't simply going somewhere mine cannot ? who am i to try and take away your hope by telling you that you're wrong ?.
you may very well be right. how would i know ?.
most anything worth believing in brings it's own set of unique problems and understandings. were it illegal to make derisive remarks on something we know little of, most all of us would be languishing behind bars right now, wishing we had bitten our collective tongues.
yet, as the only repercussion for "belief-bashing" is the pain caused to the target, it is seen as acceptable, desirable even. "belief-bashing" in one form is just an attempt to "convert" non-believers by trying to ram a highly-personalised life view down the collective throats of a highly-individual population with no respect for the beliefs that they may already have. another is by "bashing" the views or beliefs of another person, either by insulting their intelligence for thinking such "crap", or by attacking their belief system itself directly.
i have no interest in insulting anyone for what they think. and if i do, i deserve everything i get if there is a backlash.
so, whilst your penchant for idolising kitchen utensils probably won't result in me calling you for a chat anytime soon, it won't result in me calling you names, either.