Tooth Fairy Bullshit

[AceBoogie]

Let me clarify again, in case my message was lost. 

It's not the fact that Tooth Fairy belief is false, that would make me think a Tooth Fairy believer is nuts. It's the fact that the only people who believe in them, in our society, are little children. It isn't a belief that normal adult people in our society hold. In our society, it would take a pretty nutty adult to believe in the Tooth Fairy.  

If Tooth Fairy belief was a belief that normal adult people in our society held, I would see it the same exact way as I'd see Buddhism, or Islam, or Hinduism - I would see it as being false, but would not think there was anything wrong with the people who believed in them.

It's like how in our culture, spitting on someone's shoes is seen as something a weirdo would do. Why? Because it's not a normal thing to do in our society. There might be another culture out there who sees spitting on someone's shoes as a sign of respect. In that case, the person doing the spitting would not be a weirdo, he'd just be another regular person. 

Society/culture matters. In our society, it would be very strange for a grown man or a grown woman to believe in the tooth fairy. So if someone told me they did, I'd think "uhhh ok.... you're kind of a weirdo." Not because the belief is false, but because normal people in our society don't believe in that. 

So when you legitimately equate a belief like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc etc... to a belief that is only held by little kids in our society, it's very insulting to our character, our intelligence, our sanity, etc etc.

The problem is, as I'm sure others have pointed out to you, as an atheist I see belief in the Tooth Fairy, Allah, Yahweh, or whatever else, as being on the same level. They're all backed by the same amount of evidence and all require the same amount of faith. Belief in the tooth fairy "not being a thing" in our society means very little. What about Greek mythology? Once upon a time people truly did believe in Zeus and Aphrodite and all these other gods... but, what, because it's "not a thing" anymore, it's as silly as believing in the tooth fairy?

The only reason people follow religions and the gods therein is because we ascribe really important jobs to these gods (i.e. creating the universe) and since these religions provide answers to unanswerable questions for people searching some type of deeper meaning, they become "a thing." However what society deems normal or abnormal has absolutely no bearing on anything.

Most people in our (American) society are weak willed, fickle and unambitious wastes of talent. I don't really care to strive for what's normal in a society like that, so let's just deal with the facts. The facts are... the same amount of evidence exists for your Yahweh as for my tooth fairy goddess.