Quote Originally Posted by bluefinger View Post
I think a few have missed the point of that one bit. What I meant was, whilst speech is free to all, everyone has their own beliefs. Whether we choose to listen to them or ignore them is completely up to us. However, we do not have the right to remove the value of each other's beliefs or opinions. Whether we agree or not is something else. Freedom of Speech covers one's ability to voice and listen to opinions and beliefs, not to denounce them and brand them as nonsense.

We have every right to denounce others' beliefs as nonsense, and no ability to remove the value of their beliefs and opinions. Watch:

Believing in a magical Sky Daddy who made everything out of mud is nonsense, and arguments over whose Sky Daddy can beat whose Sky Daddy's ass are threatening all life on earth.

There you go, I just denounced hundreds of millions of people's beliefs as nonsense, but do you think I devalued those beliefs one iota for even a single one of those people?