[Discussion] Who is more open to your beliefs? [Religious and Non-religious people needed]

[BazzBee]

As a religious person the only reason I would try to "force" someone to try to believe what I believe is because I genuinely believe what I do to be true, meaning people who don't are in trouble, and I don't want them to suffer or anything.

Get what I'm sayin?

This, clearly explains the whole thread.

 

[Disquiet]

"I think that is more of a mentality inherent in human beings"

My reply to this statement wasn't a to pose a counter argument, but to imply optimism, stating that this is not a human trait but a trait of sentience in general. I find it far to often that humans are commonly condemned for flaws that many people view as "human traits". I simply desired to avert this perspective as it is usually counter productive.

Understandable and I agree.

Though I the think the effects of promoting this optimism greatly depends on the perception of those you are reaching, since a lot of us think ourselves superior than all other forms of sentience life; and even use animal comparisons as forms of degradation and pessimism. "The human race is dead, we are nothing but animals.", "X slaughtered X like an animal." Though I guess even the way we perceive it depends on the negative/positive of the nature present is us all (sentience life). Some think we should have long ago rid ourselves of certain animal behaviors, and use the presence of such to promote pessimism.