Discussion»Questions»Relationships» You can't be friends with those you don't respect. Can Atheists and the very religious ever be good friends? Or never? Why?
They can and are. Religion is , after all, not the only thing that binds people. And treating people with respect, whether we respect them or not, and whether they are friends or not, is I think important for social cohesiveness. We concentrate too much on how others are different from us without thinking about the fact that probably in more ways they are like us.