Everybody: do people have a right to believe...?

They have a right to believe anything they want.

They DON''T have the right to expect everyone else to live according to that belief.

a) i think everyone has the right to believe anything they want even

if there's evidence but that would be very nonsensical

b) were all different therefore we all have different beliefs and those

who have faith without evidence deserve just as much respect

as those who do have evidence

p.s. your statement: I am not saying "[ Judaism | Christianity | Buddhism | Mormonism | Evolutionism ] requires faith!" doesn't make any sense because in order to be in a religion such as judaism or christianity or any other, you HAVE to have faith because each religion has some sort of faith and each religion REQUIRES faith and those who "claim" they don't have faith aren't in a religion.

All people have the basic human right to freedom of belief, but simultaneously,other people also have the basic human right to challenge those beliefs. I believe this because productive discourse(with much emphasis on "productive") on various belief systems will never happen if no one is permitted to question anything. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs because when they're not, is when we dive into fascism.

To have faith without evidence is not morally wrong. If one wishes to entertain beliefs that they are the latest in a long line of genetic disasters that came out of a lake of slime, then there's certainly nothing immoral about that. However, it isn't very sound, and the majority of people never investigte what it is they believe to determine whether or not it has enough supporting evidence to be plausible. People generally have feel-good beliefs; beliefs that cater to their tastes, rather then beliefs that are feasible. Wicca is a good example of this.

Having faith without evidence is not a question of right and wrong but rather what forms of perseverance each of us choose to get through the day.

"In December 1914, departing from South Georgia, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, Ernest Shackleton led a crew of 27 men in a quest to cross Antarctica on foot, the last unclaimed prize in exploration annals. As they drew within with 85 miles of the continent, their ship was trapped by unusually thick ice. Originally called Polaris, the ship had been renamed Endurance by Shackleton, a term derived from his family motto, Fortituidine Vincimus, which means by endurance we conquer. This name proved to be prophetic. Frozen fast for ten months, the trapped ship was eventually crushed and destroyed by increasing pressure. Forced to abandon the ship, the men salvaged their life boats, camped on the ice for five months, and hiked to navigable waters. Amazingly Shackleton and every crew member survived for 20 months in one of the most vicious regions of the world. They overcame extreme cold, breaking ice floes, leopard seal attacks, a shortage of food and drinking water, and finally two open boat trips.

The most remarkable of the small boat trips was treacherous 800 mile ocean crossing back to South Georgia by Shackleton and a few of the men. Today that achievement is considered one of the greatest in nautical history. After arriving in South Georgia, Shackleton led his team across the rugged, icy mountains, reached the islands remote whaling station, organized a rescue team, and went back for the others. The MIRACULOUS outcome against horrendous odds was attributed to Shackleton's leadership. When interviewed later; every member of the crew said they highly respected and admired Shackleton throughout the entire two-year ordeal. Shackleton never doubted that they would survive and communicated this FAITH to the others."

This is a story about why it is okay to place faith in people and a belief when the evidence strongly points in another direction. A world where we don't encounter a little faith would be a world with no chances taken. Faith does not have to come in a religious form...sometimes having faith in ourselves and others is enough to persevere.

people have a right to believe anything they want. absolutely everything.

if you take that away, you're basically taking away a lot from people.

people can and will believe things without evidence just as easily as they'll believe it with all the evidence they need.

and even if it's probably untrue, they're still allowed to believe it and should always be guaranteed that right.

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having faith with or without conflicting evidence should always be allowed. right now, there is conflicting evidence surrounding all types of faith.

for example (just an example): in christianity, there is evidence supporting the existence of a God.

but in society now, we have no concrete, tangible proof of the same being. it requires faith for a person to believe in a god one cannot see. (once again, just an example. i am not for or against Christianity.)

and it is absolutely right, just and acceptable for one to believe in anything with or without conflicting evidence. it is absolutely right.

I exist no remember if or no longer i've got self belief in something. I do have self belief in God, and that i've got come to the tip that he's who he's not any remember what my thought of Him could be. great question, and that i enjoyed Zappa, yet whilst my techniques is going in the previous my physique, I nonetheless exist regardless of no longer being waiting to have a lucid thought. ( I do desire somebody will pull the plug in the previous i'm a burden, and dwelling wills are actually not constantly respected if a family individuals member products.) I even have by no skill felt the might desire to assist my own existance, and that i do propose that respectfully.

yes people have the right to believe whatever they want. even if i said they did not have the right to believe anything, how on earth would i enforce it? one can think free from oppression. that has never been the problem. it isn't the thought that hurts society, but the action. how one acts on these beliefs that are proven untrue, can and should be limited. one has the right to be angry. one does not have the right to hurt another human being over that anger though.

Of course everyone has a "right" to believe whatever they want. How could you make someone not believe what they choose to believe? However, everyone also has a right to challenge those beliefs, to speak against them, to make fun of them, etc. And their "right" to believe does NOT include a right to use the government to force others to live by those beliefs.

Believe whatever you wish. Believe that humans are descended from the headlice of God if you want to, but do not expect to be able to force public schools to teach that, not without a fight from those who do not share your beliefs.

~Atheist, ex-fundie-Xian, former New Ager

All of us have the right to have faith and believe, BUT dose the faith and belief we have, have factual evidence of that faith and belief, unfortunately it dose not because we are taught from birth to have faith and believe in something we cannot see or hear, and we are to put aside logic, reasoning, and common sense, and are not to question that faith and belief, It truly is a mystery as to why we humans believe what we believe because we have to laws one is a spiritual one and one is a physical one that we all have to obey and that's the law of our land and that is reality.

We have a right to believe whatever we want because that is true freedom.

If I'm zealous about my faith and I try and convince you that can't be a crime unless I hurt you.

No one should have complete control over our minds... At the same time I can submit the control of my thoughts to whom ever I wish.

This is individual freedom.