misc 'check my ip' garbage

This entry is to pick at a pair of little bullshit ideas, and should not be confused with my popular series "Rejecting the nonsense from 'check my ip' / part 1 / part 2" which was devoted to tearing down his 5 primary terrible ideas.


Bullshit Idea #1: Everyone who doesn't worship the supreme-alpha-male-in-the-sky is united by some common dogma and/or leadership

'check my ip' says:

In making this useless fight noticeable in every conversation you have just lumps you in another arrogant athiest who wants to shout from the rooftops what he/she belives. Why is this necessary? Why is the lack of respect for any arguments to your contrary necessary? Where did anyone in athiesm teach you this?

Where did anyone in atheism teach me this??? Huh? What on earth is this question supposed to mean? Do you think there's like an atheist gospel? Do you think there's some central leadership? Do I take orders from atheists ranked above me and command a force of lower ranking atheists? Maybe we should set up a goofy little country inside a large European city and command that our blind followers in AIDS-ravaged third world countries never use condoms. Oh wait you already said that because you once bumped into a guy in college who didn't believe in god, it is clear to you that atheism isn't a religion. Clearly.

As Sam Harris has pointed out, "atheist" shouldn't even have to be a word. There are no aZeusists or aThorists or aFlyingSpaghettiMonsterists. But because most of the world is still plagued with superstitious nonsense, we have to have a special word for people who refuse to deny obvious reality. But just because we have a word for people with a common embrace for rationality doesn't mean they all agree on everything.

So let me ask 'check my ip' if I would be correct in assuming that you don't believe in Thor. Assuming that you don't, my next question would be: who in aThorism taught you to spout loads on nonsense on my blog?

Bullshit Idea #2: If you don't do them in a 100% religious way, you shouldn't do holidays at all.

'check my ip' says:

Also, I trust you will be telling everyone at work that you wish to be left out of any holiday activities, right? I mean, even the "Season's greeatings" thing came out of a PC tolerance for other religions. So don't accept any gifts or anything silly like that.

Once again I have trouble even trying to guess what some of this means, but one thing that is clear is that this guy must think that Santa Claus and stockings over a fire and Rudolph and electronics wrapped in shiny paper came straight from the gospel of Matthew. Can you tell me which verse that was?

By the logic of your statement, I should assume that aThorists like you don't acknowledge a weekday between Wednesday and Friday, right? Since "Thursday" is just a tribute to the Norse God of Thunder, I trust you'll be telling everyone at work that you wish to stay at home on Thor's day, right?

Oh wait, things that start out as superstition can become part of culture and gradually lose the original meaning? What an amazing concept!