Tooth Fairy Bullshit

[Edwardo Piet]

"Why is there something rather than nothing?" There just is.
"Why does the world have a rational order?" It just does.
"Why do causes produce regular effects?" They just do.

Yeah, those are reasonable answers...not.

Woah, sweet 90's catchphrase, dude.

Let's try this again...

"Why is there something rather than nothing?" I don't know.  Let's investigate.  Is this even a sensible question?
"Why does the world have a rational order?" I don't know.  Let's investigate, even though I'm not sure how it could have an irrational order.
"Why do causes produce regular effects?"   I don't know, but is it even possible that causes could produce irregular effects?

As opposed to...

An invisible, powerful wizard poofed the universe into existence, so I could have a place to live my inherently naughty life to try to pass a test of which this wizard already knows the outcome.  Then, in order for me to pass this test, the wizard came down as his own son by magically impregnating a virgin and purposefully got himself nailed to a cross in order to perform a blood sacrifice for my inherent naughtiness.  Then he rose from the dead and talked to a few people before ascending to his cloud city paradise.  The wizard, who is also the ultimate source of morality, cares nothing about whether I live a moral life, especially since he created me inherently naughty.  Instead, all I have to do is believe in the blood sacrifice and I will get to spend eternity in his cloud city paradise instead of burning in a fiery pit for eternity because of the inherent naughtiness the wizard doesn't feel like fixing with his magical powers, which would have prevented atrocities like the mass murder of his chosen people.

Oh, and the reason for all this naughtiness is humanity's free will, even though I'm going to spend eternity in cloud city paradise where there is no naughtiness and I still have free will.

Yeah, that's reasonable alright.  Much more so than just admitting you don't know something.

This is one of my favorite posts on AF ever.

Excellently phrased description of just how utterly ridiculous and childish Christianity is.