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?

don't try too change other people's beliefs--it won't work and it will only antagonize them and stress you out

If religious people can't change our minds, then we shouldn't expect to change theirs. It's annoying when a religious person gets all up in my business. I wouldn't want to do that to others.

Live and let live.

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.

Beliefs are individual no one should ever try to persuade another we all find what we need to get by no one else truly knows what that is only you know what works for you

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.

I only give my opinions when they are warranted. When someone engages me directly, or when I see something I want to respond to on a public forum. In person I am less likely to do it. I go out to have fun, not argue with people. Don't harm me and I won't harm you. Even when I do give my opinion it's to just get it off my chest and/or point out the truth or what I think is true, or if I feel someone is wrong or being deliberately obtuse. It's basically a form of entertainment and/or catharsis. I don't really care to change their opinions because it's almost entirely futile.

To try to change peoples beliefs?
Let me know how that works out for you.

Live and let live, unless they start their b.s. with me

I’m rarely interested in changing someone’s mind about anything.

well, that would depend on the circumstances, my mood, how much of the other person's stance involved interfering with MY life, the venue and possibly the weather!

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Necessary? I think it is inevitable. People's beliefs are not materialized from thin air; they are injected and influenced by those around them. If so, it is better to attempt to propagate benign beliefs and to reduce the malign ones (for example, racist or misogynist beliefs). There are smart ways of doing it and dumb ways of doing it. I think the question is not whether, but how.

No one care what you or I think just as we don't care what others think. So I would keep it to myself.

I think the fight is not with the individual but with the town/state/region/country to create a better educated and PROPERLY informed populace. I don't really care if you believe in god, I do care if you don't believe in climate change and a myriad of other things because you're stupid.

Live and let live. Be yourself and don't make apologies. Teach tolerance but don't preach about it,

You should try to get more people on the path of enlightenment. They will be better it off. My new journey on path of enlightenment has help feel better about myself. However, don't cram it down there throat like the religious fools due with there fairy tales,etc.

It depends on how twisted they are and how receptive they are to alternate perspectives.

A few words about reality will be pushed aside meaning nothing, the support group for delusion is an organized attack on a fragile mind.

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.

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

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.

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.

The later, only engage when the other person expresses an interest.

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?