I loved him. Lived his religion w/o pushing it on anyone.

Mr. Rogers is what all Christians should be like.

I could care less about his religious background, Mr. Rogers was freaking awesome.

I'm friends with a few pastors. My views are that believers aren't always bad. It just comes down to basic respect. In fact my family's old pastor, pastor dean, is such a close friend and he looks just like Ron Perlman he loves it

It's never really a good thing to spread ignorance. However, as long as he wasn't abusing his power to molest children or whatever, so be it. Someone else would have gladly filled those shoes anyway.

He kept his religious preferences to himself while stressing kindness courtesy, curiousness about the world. Do you want to disparage him because he was religious? I find this an odd question, sorry.

Despite his religious beliefs, he didn’t proselytize. I grew up watching his show and loved it.

He scared me. I watched him anyways, but for some reason, he creeped me out.

One of the problems I have with Christianity is the hypocrisy of claiming to follow the teachings of Christ and living in constant judgment and condemnation of others. So when a person of faith lives their faith - and by all accounts, Fred Rogers did, every day - I have nothing but respect for that. From everything I have ever heard about him, he was genuinely a kind, decent, loving person.

And honestly, I have very little patience with anyone who is judgmental towards believers in any deity. I may not believe what they do, but I understand the desire to believe in something transcendent and I'm not going to knock that, especially, again, if they are kind and decent people.

I think he made a good choice to abandon the church to help children. Besides, Presbyterians are mostly liberals, and not very religious.

There's a joke where a Baptist preacher was annoyed to keep passing his hillbilly neighbor napping on the porch every Sunday morning. But whenever the preacher invited the neighbor to go to his church, the man said he didn't have any good clothes.

So the preacher went to Good Will and bought him the best suit and accessories he could find, gave them to the neighbor and said he expected to see him in church that Sunday.
But the man never showed up.
When the preacher returned from church, the man was on the porch, dressed in his old clothes.

"Why didn't I see you at church?" the preacher demanded. The man shrugged.

"After I put on the suit, I looked so prosperous, I went to the Presbyterian church instead!"

He was a good man. I was living in Pittsburgh at the time so he really did sound like a neighbor to me with his Pittsburgh accent. The city was very proud of him.

Fred Rodgers was a good, kind, loving man. A little weird by my lights (I can never forget Robin William's parody of him: "Let's put Mr. Hamster in the micowave! Pop goes the weasel!" ) but someone who really loved his work and made positive change in the world.

In SPITE of him being a Presbyterian minister.

I had heard he was a bad ass military guy from what I gather this was a rumor.

He's all good

Well, he never pushed God on me in his "neighborhood" so I never took issue with him. I did, however, take offense with King Friday the Most!

He did more for humanity then any number of "religious" people I could think of.