"Truth' is too entwined with 'belief'. Beliefs abound, but - from a scientific standpoint - no belief warrants respect."**********************************************************************
"I have also thought (science) could be seen as a belief system in as such that we choose to believe in the empirical evidence. "
No belief warrants respect? I'd be surprised if your world view is not packed to the brim with beliefs (mine is!). My take on it is that beliefs are irrelevant ultimately, but they are the way humans function - and it may be impossible for us to function without them. A bit like the visible spectrum and 'colour' being an artifact of the way we are made. How we deal with our own beliefs, and those of others, is a mixture of our nature, our culture, and our personal experiences/preferences, and science is just a way of questioning beliefs.
Whether you respect your own or anyone else's beliefs is a product of your own belief system. There's quite a strong strand in most cultures that we can or should change our own beliefs, or those of others, that aren't 'popular' or 'correct' in some way, which I think is arrogant and ultimately futile - though again very human. If the scientific approach is more useful to us, and we live by it, then others might start to find it attractive (or not), but it doesn't result in people living without beliefs.
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