Only a very few, will continue to BLAST their Opinions.
AND Say the other people/opinions,
are Assholes,

 In your OPINION.

Reading through this thread, I noticed something interesting in myself.

I felt the urge to add my opinion.

And then I wondered: why?

Most of what is happening here is people expressing opinions, defending them, challenging other people's opinions, and finding new arguments to reinforce what they already believe. And my first impulse was to join in by giving you my opinion about all those opinions.

Which would be rather ironic.

So perhaps there is a more interesting question here, especially in a discussion about religion.

If we take religion, at least in part, as a means of spiritual or inner growth, could refraining from expressing an opinion sometimes be a spiritual practice in itself?

Not because having an opinion is wrong. And not because we should remain silent when something actually needs to be said.

But because sometimes expressing an opinion seems to serve very little purpose beyond maintaining our own psychological structure: the need to be right, to be heard, to defend an identity, or to confirm what we already believe.

Many religious and contemplative traditions contain practices that ask us to examine our attachment to the self. From that perspective, perhaps an interesting question isn't always:

“What is my opinion about this?”

but:

“Why do I need to express my opinion about this at all?”

And I have to include myself in that question.

Perhaps that is part of polishing the diamond: not getting rid of thought or disagreement, but becoming a little less attached to the person who desperately wants to be right.

Serowbot wrote on 09/29/26 at 10:55:18:


Perfect example of someone saying what they believe is the only truth.
   Again not a problem believing in a religion/deity/or believing in, not believing.

Just that all the people that believe in the above,
    (Except One Group)
do not cut off clits, throw people off buildings, Stone Them, for not believing in THEIR religion.

Perfect example of someone saying what they believe is the only truth.
  Again not a problem believing in a religion/deity/or believing in, not believing.

 In your OPINION.

For me, ALL religions have equal credibility, since none of them have any proof that what they say is true. Since ALL of them say anyone not in their religion is going to hell, they must all be right. So, EVERYBODY s going to hell. If they're wrong, everybody's going to hell anyway. (IF, as people like Sprung and Zivvy say, atheism is indeed "just another religion", which is BS, but it makes for a tight tautological argument, which is the basis for faith anyway.)