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Respect.
It's an easy enough concept.
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No.
Beliefs are ideas, and ideas don't get to be respected. Ideas get thrust out into the cold of the public forum with no special protection that those ideas cannot muster on its own merits. It does matter who has emotional attatchments to those ideas. "Please don't logically shred my beliefs/ridicule their own evident follies, it offends me!" is special pleading. "Don't logically shred my beliefs/ridicule their own evident follies or I'll kill you" is an appeal to the stick.
The last one is especially insidious. If anyone is threatened for speaking out against anything, we are almost bound by duty to ourselves to join in speaking out. Threats of violence in themselves are an admission that their beliefs are shakey, but more than that, those who threaten need to be made to comes to grips with the reality of modern civilisation. And if we are actually cowed into ending any critical discourse, like the cowards in office and in the media so often are, then we are proving that threats actually do inhibit our free speech and get them what they want. And it'll only happen again and again, as our rights are nibbled away if not officially, then in practice.
No. If you make any idea known, it must endure the trials. If you want to kill someone for it, fuck off. The trials will continue.