> Because you said you're "not even able to fathom how this is possible" - honestly, I still don't quite understand that sentence, especially after what you wrote above.
Look, in context, what I said had a qualifier:
>>> I am not even able to fathom how this is possible; unless someone is trying to convince you to join them in their belief, how on earth does a quarrel arise from differing beliefs?
I am not able to fathom how this is even possible unless one party is trying to change the beliefs of the other party.
I think that's a little less ambiguous, no?
> But maybe that particular war is worth fighting? Maybe, through countless battles over the Christmas tables, society changes course?
Maybe it does, and you just need to keep fighting.
Or (my approach), wait for the older generation to die off; the younger generation has no need to change the minds of the older generation, they just have to wait.
You still end up with the following result:
> next generation to live their lives a little better than you could?
I like my way better[1], but, you know, whatever works for you, works for you.
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[1] For example, in my entire adult life I have had only two serious (i.e. shouting) arguments with my father, and neither of them had to do with differing beliefs, and now that he is dead I regret even having those two arguments.
He did not approve of my beliefs, but both he and I take a live and let live approach to life. I mean, I'm atheist and I'm happily married to someone who isn't; we have yet (over decades) to have a single argument over religion!
Look, in context, what I said had a qualifier:
>>> I am not even able to fathom how this is possible; unless someone is trying to convince you to join them in their belief, how on earth does a quarrel arise from differing beliefs?
I am not able to fathom how this is even possible unless one party is trying to change the beliefs of the other party.
I think that's a little less ambiguous, no?
> But maybe that particular war is worth fighting? Maybe, through countless battles over the Christmas tables, society changes course?
Maybe it does, and you just need to keep fighting.
Or (my approach), wait for the older generation to die off; the younger generation has no need to change the minds of the older generation, they just have to wait.
You still end up with the following result:
> next generation to live their lives a little better than you could?
I like my way better[1], but, you know, whatever works for you, works for you.
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[1] For example, in my entire adult life I have had only two serious (i.e. shouting) arguments with my father, and neither of them had to do with differing beliefs, and now that he is dead I regret even having those two arguments.
He did not approve of my beliefs, but both he and I take a live and let live approach to life. I mean, I'm atheist and I'm happily married to someone who isn't; we have yet (over decades) to have a single argument over religion!