You shouldn't respect them.  As an agnostic, deist, theist you should instead curse them to an eternity in whatever place that agnostic, deist, theists believe that the filthy, soulless atheists deserve to go when they die.

What? who said anything about moving?

Because you have no evidence to justify your fantasy universe.

Cpt sometimes feels snarky and parodies other threads to try to make a point.  I'm beginning to suspect that it's easier for him to allude to points rather than actually make them.  It remains to be seen whether that's from ego or a simple lack of ability to articulate the point to himself.

Perhaps that's behind agnostic deist theism?  When you can't figure out any point to make to anyone, including yourself, you're trapped in intellectual limbo for fear of giving away your dilemma...

Respect in what sense? 

As persons?  Why wouldn't you?  All persons are entitled to dignity by virtue of their humanity.

Their views?  You're not required to.  While they have the freedom to be wrong, they have no right to expect you to endorse their wrong thinking.

So, how many of your parents and siblings are serial killers, child molesters, and animal abusers?

I never claimed that the innate dignity of humanity was easy to discern.  This as a facet of Christian living that renders Christainaity a challenging lifestyle.

And Christianity is not alone in this respect.  Just check out KevinRBrown's gushing praise for Stalin in his thread, many of which he views as a positive good.  I, on the other hand, can recognize the humanity of Stalin ddepsite the positive evils I see he perpetrated.

What would it matter ?  The scope of humanity isn't limited to my parents and siblings.

Every human sociopath who ever walked the Earth began their lives as their mother's child and are thus someones's family member.  Some of these degenerates grow up, marry and have families of their own ( like the BTK killer for example, who behaved normally and even attended a Christian church. )

Accordingly, I am not impressed merely by anyone's humanity nor is dignity a universally shared trait.

we are all related and therefor respect is earned not inherint so if your bro is the atheist mechanic that saves your bacon respect his mechanic skills but realize that he has diffrent veiws than you therefore do not bend him but bend yourself for bending him is impossable this is what i do with my theist relatives

What are you trying to say?  Why don't you just say what you mean?

Incidentally, by the way, this thread was started on May 24, 1:18 PM.  The last post in the eerily silent thread was posted May 23, 11:14 PM.  Are you taking credit for silencing an already dead thread?

It was a poor attempt at a joke.  My apologies.

Indeed.  And even these whack jobs are entitled to equal protection under the law.  That's a concept originating in western governments developing out of a Christian belief in the equality of all men before God.  The concept is best summed uo in the US Decaration of Independence assertion that "all Men are created equal". 

This concept is the basis of the form of government we call "democracy".  But with the recognition of the rights conferred by the dignity of the individual person comes obligations as well.  Primarily those obligations amount to recognizing the fundamental dignity others.  It's a reciprocal realationship upon which our society is based.  Government, and the society which that government represents, is meant to enforce that equality.  Those great thinkers who were instrumental in the development of modern representative government were obviously pretty impressed by the humanity of the person and seemed to think human dignity a universally shared trait.

I agree with your entire post.  High minded and very difficult to live by, both then and now.  We've improved in some areas, fallen down in others, but I think the attempt to live by these ideals has always survived.

Equality under the law is indeed not the actuality, I doubt it ever will be, but I think, as in most other human endeavors, it's about progress not perfection.

From your last post, and your comment that you refuse to acknowledge the fundamental dignity of all men, am I correct in assuming that you think we should abandon this ideal altogether because it is difficult?  Perhaps establish a new aristocracy, or an oligarchy of some sort.  Perhaps since we are unable to guarantee free franchise to every man, we should abolish the franchise altogether.

Or do you think the more noble course would be to continue the pursuit of excellence despite the difficulties in this case?

btw, What's a agnostic deist theist?  Is that someone who believes in divine creation by an unknown apathetic non-god god?

If you love them then you should show them respect based solely on familial love and all the issues and areas of knowledge and understanding about which you do agree and about which you do respect thier opinions and acknowledge thier knowledge and intelligence on. If they respect you then reciprocation of that respect is neccessary to the relationship if you want that relationship to stay strong. If you don't give a fuck about them then fuck 'em. I respect my theists friends even though I think their religion is idiotic and often snicker when they talk about thier "personal relationship with God". I may not respect their religious beliefs and that does, admittedly, lessen my respect for them to the degree that thier religious beliefs affect thier judgement in other areas. I don't, for example, ask my mother's opinion on anything political because i know i will get some close-minded Xtian answer followed by a quote from the bible.  But i would ask for her advice on potty-training my daughter or on sewing or gardening or investing in the stock market. And I have many friends who never think about religion outside of church but still consider themselves Xtians and my respect for them is pretty much the same as it would be for anyone. Just because I can't take their religious beliefs seriously that doesn't mean i won't respect their opinions in other areas not influenced by their imaginary friend.

Where is the other thread?

The one I linked to in the OP

You shouldn't. You should respect no-one by default. Individuals deserve only denigration and condescension. They should have to earn your respect, preferably by either besting you in hand-to-hand combat (or with Samurai swords, natch), or perhaps by beating you 2 out of 3 in Marvel Super Hero. "Where's Waldo?" usually won't suffice as a test of their mettle, but it might do in a pinch.

Or, they can take the easy way, and purchase respect with offerings of food, money, and alchoholic beverages.

Otherwise: NO RESPECT FOR THE CURS!

I believe that dignity, like wisdom, is an acquired trait. It's as simple as that...not something that we are born with. 

Perhaps I am misinterpreting you  but you seemed to repeatedly characterize my argument as if I advocated some degrading, dehumanizing philosophy where humans are treated as if they are animals without rights.  I advocate no such ideas.

If you are basing that comment on the OP in that thread, if they are indeed "completely uncritical when forming (their) beliefs."?, then maybe you shouldn't. Otherwise, there is no particular reason not to respect them.

The OP in that thread did NOT suggest not respecting someone simply because they had different beliefs from yourself, which is what your unqualified question here seems to imply.

By not discussing your parents' personal justifications for their atheism, you have misrepresented (or maybe misunderstood) the point of that other thread - it was not based simply difference of belief, it was based on the perceived lack of coherent justification for the belief, and how to approach people who don't seem to be able to discuss the subject in a reasonable way.

So, apart from the age of that thread, it is hardly surprising you have not heard from others on that thread, since your question here is not really relevant to the OP in that thread.

In the spirit of that other thread, it depends on why they do not believe in God(s) - if they present a reasoned argument as to why they see no justification for belief, why not respect that? And please note, it's not normally a matter of 'choice' to be an atheist, the only choice involved is the 'choice' to only accept things which are well supported by evidence, to not just accept what others tell you you should believe.

If they are still prepared to be friendly and reasonable to you, then it would be pretty sad if you couldn't return the favour - people in families disagree about many things, it doesn't have to stop them treating each other with basic human respect.

If you can't find it in you to respect their conclusions about the existence of God, after they have explained why, then that's your problem.

Using the word 'dignity' to argue for the basic default respect we feel we should accord to every human being is the problem I see here. I do not see it as an appropriate word to use here, but if you do, you should make it clear this is something different from its usage to describe an aspect of a certain type of personality.

In normal usage, 'dignity' describes  a quality that some people display more than others, otherwise the word is meaningless.

We should respect every human being, simply because they're human. Furthermore, it is good to unconditionally love the believers and unbelievers alike.

I'd like to flip that around why should they respect your decision to be w.e religious group you are.You probably would say you don't need it to be respected because its your life choice. That's just it! Its a life choice if they truly look at the world and the evidence and conclude there is no god that is their decision. Why should it matter if you respect their decision or not? they are not looking for your respect just as you should not be looking for theirs. (On the decision of religion at least.) If anything you should preach against their decision as your belief most likely winds up with them being in a hell of sorts, and you don't want them to go there.  So why should you respect their decision? There is no reason you should. If you wish to respect them for having the courage not to be closet atheist and be open on their beliefs then that's your choice, but there is no plausible reason to respect them for that decision, or vice versa not respect them for it.