Respect is earned.

I have trouble respecting beliefs of others. As for them having a right to believe as they want to, only a fool would try to stop that idea. The world is full of religious fools. I can respect people if they respect me.

That's a hard question. In most cases if they are personal beliefs that people keep to themselves I'd say yes, However, that's often times not the case.Two examples would be abortion and the anti-vax movement. Spreading false misleading information about vaccination has given rise to dangerous diseases that are harming the rest of the population. From my experience, I find very few anti-abortion people are in favor of keeping abortion legal and safe. On the other hand if someone is religious and makes a personal decision, that affects only them, by Consulting the Bible I would consider that none of my business.

Some people from my home town (I left years ago), believe that a certain house is "haunted". Not all beliefs are worthy of respect. If they cannot defend their beliefs on a logical/intellectual level, then their beliefs have no validity and are not worthy of respect. Hitler "believed" the Jews to be subhuman.

Respect is something that is earned . In my book at least .

Your ( anyone's ) Right to believe whatever or in whatever makes you happy , is granted .
If your ( anyone's ) beliefs / religion cause harm to humanity then tolerance should be at least questionable .
When religions become the law , or when religions and politics feed each other , then the world is in the deep S!?& that it is today . Actually , now that I am thinking , same s!$& , different century .

If we want respect for our own beliefs, we need to offer that to people whose opinions and beliefs are contrary to our own. So long as 'their' belief system does not infringe or harm us, I choose to adopt the attitude of "live and let live"...

Tolerance if not threatening to others.
Respect: Depends on the belief.
My opinion only.

I'm sorry, I'll respect you as a individual... I might revoke that respect if I feel you're undeserving. I don't respect religion, but I do give it the respect it deserves.

Respect works BOTH ways and since the Faithfools have NEVER once shown any respect for Atheists what-so-ever since religion was first invented WHY then should we RESPECT their beliefs.
Yes, RESPECT the PERSON but NEVER the belief UNLESS it tells THEM to respect our ways as well.

I'm not Christian; haven't been in a church in decades - yet I have a "smile" account at Amazon that supports (a 1% donation for every purchase I make- check it out...search 'Smile.amazon.com)

And as a result I give a good amount of charitable donations to this very Christian elderly couple who are running a children's ranch out in Riverhead, N.Y. (Timothy Hill Children's ranch....google them).

They're very strongly "Christian" yet they just live such a humble life...they just give to a growing number of kids who've struggled in schools, courts, and foster homes...and their charitable views are just phenomenal.

So do most religious folk seem "superstitious, ignorant, hateful, or factually wrong" ? sure - but for those rare people that just like to follow the path of giving and giving...these people are borderline saints.

You can respect the person without respecting their belief/s.

I don't know what "respect" means in this context. If it means treat as if somehow worthy, then no.

I am saying no because I don’t think I have to respect a belief to be polite to a person. Of course, If they are hurting others or shoving it in my face, then the ability to be polite goes away!

While I don't care what they believe personally (and I do enjoy reading and learning about all kinds of different religions), I do have a problem when religious people insist that I have to obey, abide and live by their own religious rules. When the government uses religion, primarily Christianity, to create policy that affects everyone, including people who don't identify as Christian, I find that not only unfair, but uncaring, which seems to go against everything Christians claim to be, followers of Christ. I don't agree that religion should be taught in school, unless it covers ALL religions, which is very unlikely, and especially creationism as a valid scientific theory. I resent that biblical teachings are used to decide public health care like birth control, abortion and sexuality. I also find I have a hard time respecting people of religion who condemn others who are different, in beliefs, color of their skin, sexual identity, which again, goes against the teachings of Jesus.These are the ones I have trouble respecting. I do have friends who are Christian, Muslim and Jewish, as well as Hindi and Buddhist, who live their faith by their actions and not by preaching and demanding that everyone else agree with them.

I do not respect bigotry (aka racism ) hatred intolerance religious or not violence

We should acknowledge other’s beliefs, respect their right to have them, and honor their humanity. Harmful or dangerous beliefs should be eradicated. No beliefs should be automatically respected, including mine.

Absolutely not. Nazis for instance, you would respect them why? Because there are good people on both sides?
Why in the fuck would we respect hateful beliefs? You asked, so please answer.

Most religions don't respect me as a human so NO.

sometimes it's wise to at least APPEAR respectful to the delusional. You don't know what they're capable of

You can respect their rights and/or their person. As to beliefs? It is a question of tolerance. For example; you may not touch on the subject with a work colleague or family member, perhaps remove your hat (if you're a man) when visiting an old church on holiday. To my mind, I only counter-attack. If they don't push it? Then I won't. If they do? then they deserve all they get.

That depends what you mean by respect. One definitely should pull people up when they are spouting hateful propaganda.

I stay away from negativity. It doesn't serve me and I have no reason to have those people in my life. I will go out of my way to avoid those people since life has its own challenges and I don't have a need for drama and chaos. I can deal with my own challenges without needing to be negative and hateful. I make every effort I can to be kind to other humans and I do have my boundaries in place.

That all depends on their beliefs effects on others. Tale for example Christian Scientists who refuse any and all medical care in favor of faith in God. I respect an adults right to refuse such care. I do not respect nor support their right to inflict their (In my opinion) idiocy on their children.

I don't think it's an issue of respecting those beliefs, but respecting the person's right to have those beliefs. As long as they don't put those beliefs into action and aren't physically hurting someone or threatening or discriminating on someone and hindering their rights then it should be respected. Once we start alienating people is when they start to reinforce their beliefs. We are all guilty of doing it from time to time or at least in the past. We can be disgusted with someone's beliefs, but nobody should be punished for their beliefs until or unless like I said before that they start to physically harm or threaten or discriminate towards others which hinders their rights. We can argue and come up with a guide on what is threatening or discriminating etc. because they mean different things to different people, but it's not much different than what we already have with our justice system. When we start trying to silence people or being the "thought police" is when it starts to get shady. It will also be a fine line and all of our rights will be subject to silencing etc.

That is a tricky question.You should always respect the person no matter what they believe. Then try to figure out how to best convince them of the error of their ways