Two days ago, I posted the following tweet: “Every time I hear an atheist compare belief in God to belief in the ‘tooth fairy’ I get more evidence for my observation that atheists don’t even understand what they are rejecting.” The tweet elicited several responses. Predictably, those included responses that defended the analogy by insisting […]
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Belief in tooth fairies is dumb and belief in god is dumber
My village atheist alarm started going off this morning so I checked the blog and discovered that somebody was comparing God to the tooth fairy. This is part of what “Contararian” wrote: “If I wish to claim that either being [a tooth fairy or God] exists, it is for me to demonstrate that to an “outsider” […]