Tooth Fairy Bullshit

[The Grand Nudger]

As a proposed explanation, the tooth fairy is a childish answer to a trivial parental prank.

How many times are you going to manage to get something completely wrong?  Didn't even google it, did you, you have no idea where the tooth fairy comes from, lol.

In contrast to this, the existence of a divine being is one answer to profound philosophical questions such as why is there something rather than nothing, why does nature operate lawfully, etc. Even if the atheist thinks that is the wrong conclusion, intelligent minds have considered the existence of divine agency a reasonable answer to serious questions.

Intelligents minds don't always reach intelligent conclusions, nor do they begin with intelligent premises.  Yet again you are mistaking the intelligence of a person with the intelligence of a proposition.  

And the questions are not merely philosophical. Throughout human history religious sentiment has been motivating force behind many of Mankind’s greatest achievements and many of its darkest moral failures. No hospital was built in honor of the tooth fairy.

...weren't they, though....lol?

She inspired no wars.

Didn't she, though?

She gave no strength to a missionary nor excuse to a criminal.

Oh, I think she did......

How do you explain the difference between those beliefs that drive history and fanciful notions that do not? There is a reason.

What might that reason be?  Yu;d invariably have to begin by showing us any tangible difference between tooth fairies and yahweh fairies.  The very comparison from which you shrivel.  Good luck. Even if you could manage that (and I have my doubts) all your work is still ahead of you. Can you explain to me what you find so meaningful about one set of idiotic superstitions being the impetus for some decision in a person x , and the other set of idiotic superstitions not being so, in the obvious case of one set being disabused of in children by adults and the other being promoted? If the roles were reversed, and people shunned yahweh fairies and indoctrinated tooth fairies, you'd likely be sitting here babbling about how tooth fairiesm gave us universities and hospitals. You;d still be wrong, and for all of the same reasons. Your belief in fairies -of either stripe- has compelled you to both retcon history and shitcan any rational thought. Preferring instead to pin your every response to vacuous appeals to authority and tradition in between almost unfathomable displays of factual ignorance.

Religious convictions, whether they are right or wrong, address the most profound questions of human existence and, at least for Christianity in particular, provide reasonable answers to those questions. These questions include who am I, why are we here, what am I obliged to do, etc. Trivializing Christian faith by comparing it to a childish superstition is to mock moral heroes, like Dr. King, whose Christian faith was essential to his life and legacy. Shame on you all.

There you go again, rattling MLKs bones.  Perhaps it's you that needs to find some shame?