# Respecting Religious Beliefs **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respecting-religious-beliefs/487367 "2009-02-25T14:56:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 101
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respecting-religious-beliefs/487367/101 "2009-02-26T20:32:14Z")
> [@Fantome](#): > > Can you cite any hatred or lies towards religious people that came from Dawkins or Harris? How about [this](http://summatheologiae.studium-piusx.org/08-8.html): “People who believe in God behave like ruffians: they kill and they murder others along with themselves. Faith in God is like a mental disease-it disorientates you and makes you do evil things.” - Richard Dawkins That sure sounds like hatred and lies towards religious people to me. Can you just imagine what would happen if he said “Gay people behave like ruffians” or “Blacks kill and they murder others along with themselves” or “Poverty is like a mental disease-it disorientates (?) you and makes you do evil things”? If he said any of those things, he would immediately lose his job and become a pariah, no longer welcome in respectable society. It is only because he directs his hatred and slander at religious people that he instead earns widespread praise from so many sources. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respecting-religious-beliefs/487367)._