Tooth Fairy Bullshit

[Catholic_Lady]

You're acting as though belief in tooth fairies and santa clause in our society is a thing though. I mean, it's not even that it's an "uncommon" thing, it's not a thing at all! Lol. I mean, have you ever even met a grown adult person who believed in the Tooth Fairy, to know that it's totally possible for someone to hold that belief while being a completely normal member of society? I'm assuming not.  

I mean no disrespect, but I think those saying that they would not think anything was very "off" about a grown man/woman in our society believing the tooth fairy exists, are being dishonest for the sake of keeping their argument intact.

1. Whether it's a thing in our society or not makes no difference to me. I'd treat it with the same level of respect if it was a thing. I'd still respect the person and their right to believe, but I would not feel the need to respect their beliefs.

2. How's this for you then? I could make up a new religion on the spot today. Yesterday it was not a thing. Would you respect my religion if it became a thing any more than if it was not a thing? Why or why not?

1. It should make a difference to you though. Because as I explained earlier, culture matters. A person who believes something that is completely out there in relation to their culture/society (like legitimate belief in the Tooth Fairy), is probably not a very normal person. That's not me being biased bc I personally don't believe in the tooth fairy, that's just being objective and honest.

2. It really just depends on what "religion" it is. If the religion was based even loosely on something that our culture takes seriously, like perhaps a denomination of an already existing religion/ideology, then I'd probably not think you were a nutter. If this religion was you saying the Easter Bunny is God, for example, then I'd think there's probably something not quite right with your mental state. However, if this belief in an Easter Bunny God becoming a thing in our society, then I wouldn't think that subsequent followers of that religion are nuts. Because that is what they are being taught, and that is what our society believed in. I'd still think you were nuts, since you're the one who pulled that literally out of crazy land in the first place, but I wouldn't think subsequent followers were nuts if it became a thing in our society.

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Again, it's a matter of scale and perspective. Over here in the UK, belief in gods typically isn't all that common. You can go from Land's End to John O'Groats and hardly bump into anyone who believes in any god. It's all about societal normalisation, which if it isn't a real thing bloody well oought to be, now that I've gone to the trouble of typing it. If toothfairyism had spread at swordpoint over the western world, the way the Abrahamic religions did, you'd most likely have been brought up in the faith and would be saying the exact same things now.

Yes.