Do you think it is necessary to try to change people’s perspective about their beliefs or just get on with you own life and respond from your own position when you engage with other people
I don't like to have someone proselytize at me, and I don't do it to others. Unless someone directly asks or makes a comment I consider so stupid I have to respond, I keep my lack of belief to myself.
Exactly my point of view.
I've always felt that people who proselytize for any reason are uniformly annoying. I don't do that. The best any of us can do is provide a strong and positive example. It's up to everyone else to follow the example, or continue to live in a superstitious fog. It's really not your problem to solve.
Trying to change people's beliefs is bound to be a thankless task. Better to give them the tools and information to make better choices on their own.
Proselytizing and trying to convert is the least of the issues I have with theists as it is just an annoyance and can be stopped fairly easily. However, the day to day force feeding of religion in the lives of others via governmental rules and laws is another issue and must be resisted at all costs.
VOTE in November.
Planting seeds works wonders.
So does emperical evidence.
Rather that trying to tell some one that they are wrong and stupid for thinking so, it is IMHO and experience that I will tell them What I understand to be true, and back it up with some published notations, or papers, or many other ways.
Then let them decide for themselves. sometimes just the right seed can grow a giant tree.
Attacking them only makes you the same as they are, and where then is the progress in that?
It’s a great thing to express your opinions but you can’t change another person’s mind—only they can do that. In a truly open interchange all parties are trying to learn, and are amenable to change.
When they come up to me that is when I state my case
I say really you believe that really? If they go on so tell them prove it ad why is it only in your book and no one elses?
I’m rarely interested in changing someone’s mind about anything.
Live and let live, unless they start their b.s. with me
For a while I thought it was important to engage, under the belief that if people don't hear an alternative viewpoint then they will start to assume their viewpoint is the valid one because everyone else agrees with them.. after one to many online arguments I finally realized it usually changed nothing, and was a waste of my time.
It is unavoidable that confrontation will happen, just in social media for example, where people who know you, friends AND family, still, not sure if willingly or otherwise, send you religious crap and BS that is as abundant as ridiculous, so I must make my point across forcefully and devastatingly with facts that religious morons always ignore. Talk about blind faith.
I pretty much don’t try and change people's minds about their religious beliefs. You can only lead a horse to water. Also, I’m very non confrontational
Beliefs? About what? The shape of the Earth? That the United States was founded as a 'Christian nation?' The 'risks' of vaccinating children? The 'benefits' of corporal punishment? The 'harm' of GMOs? The existence of a left-wing conspiracy to manipulate data on Global Warming to destroy capitalism?
Beliefs have consequences, but the importance one places on any effort to change a belief necessarily depends on the impact of such a belief.
A few words about reality will be pushed aside meaning nothing, the support group for delusion is an organized attack on a fragile mind.