Should Religion Be Respected?

[AstronomyDomine]

I just want to see some other viewpoints on this...

Most of our lives we are taught to respect other people's beliefs and not to criticize them, etc. So this will, of course, conflict with that commonality. But anyway, from a purely scientific, no-bullshit point-of-view, all religion (being man-made) is false.

Now, should we respect the religions of the world when we know, for an absolute fact (technically an immeasurably small probability) that they are false? Should we respect someone who thinks the Earth is flat? Or that lightning is produced by Zeus?

Should religion be respected?

Please excuse any errors in syntax or lexicon due to my being fucked up.