I always felt that many people don't quite know exactly what these words mean and how there is a difference between the two of them. They are not the same.
Looking in the dictionary: the word "respect" means to consider worthy of high regard and to esteem. It does not imply that the person doing the respecting doesn't have any respect or esteem for himself/herself. There are those who are respected in the sense they have a worldly title and there is the respect people would have for something or someone because it has proven to be worthy of being esteemed.
Respect is something I give to the authorities. Respect is something I give to my employer, since he is paying me.
Now let's take the word "servile" or "servility": the dictionary says: of or befitting a slave or a menial position: meanly or cravenly submissive: abject. WELL, what does the religion crave from people? Respect or Servility? I think most everybody on this forum would have to agree they are looking for "servility" or something very close to it.
Servility, however, is something I give to no one. In this day and age and in the western world I don't think too many people in their right minds are going to give servility to any would-be dictator, despot or power-tripping delusional unless they were compelled at gunpoint.