(January 19, 2017 at 5:29 pm)Jesster Wrote: As an added note, CL, I do have plenty of respect for you. That's why I bother having real conversations with you. I think you're very level-headed even when I disagree with you.
(January 19, 2017 at 5:29 pm)SteveII Wrote: I think the biggest difference is that there are rational reasons to believe in God and there are none to believe in the tooth fairy. So to equate the two is to intentionally dismiss the fact that people have rational reasons for their belief. Dismissing a person's thinking process in such an open and mocking way is disrespectful and "douchbagish".
Again, how you view tooth fairy believers is your problem to work out. I am giving them more credit than you are. Maybe you are being the douchebag.
If you think believing in the tooth fairy is rational, then you would be objectively wrong. It is not rational. As a parent of 5 children, it was me who put the dollar under the pillow. You are simply elevating the belief in the tooth fairy with no warrant to avoid the the mockery charge.
