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richardhutnik on 10 October 2012
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Jay520 said:
sethnintendo said:
Jay520 said:
richardhutnik said:

Any why would you get upset by having a minority opinion on things?  Only basis I can see for upset, is that you end up feeling you have a lack of connection in a given area.

Pretty much, to be short, why care what is going on in the heads of other people?


It would show me that the majority of the world are pretty unintelligent. Ff they believe a jolly man in a red suit enters their home every Christmas night sneaking in presents. If so many people were that unintelligent, then yes...I would be upset. 

So you never believed in Santa?  I think it is a pretty good analogy myself.  A lot of young kids are tricked into believing there is a Santa.  Why are they tricked?  Because of a tradition that was passed down to tell these kids this fairy tale lie.  I don't see how that is far off from someone passing down religious beliefs.

Believing in Santa is crazier than believing in a certain religion. Anyone could stay up all night and see that there is not Santa. But there's really no definite way to disprove a lot of religions. So at least theists can't be proven wrong.

And yet, while crazier, there isn't the level of rage over the issue of people believing something when they were younger and moving on from it.  There are other issues here involved, likely involving a person's world view, priorities, and feeling like they don't fit in or are accepted.  It is an anger at the world for not fitting one's preferences.  It is wishing that the entire world would just sing "Imagine" and end up believing it, throw out religion, replace it with nothing, and then suddenly we have this utopia of peace, love and brotherhood.  It is a concept that a non-existent being is responsible for all the evil in the world, or a large degree of it.  This venting is NOT thrown at Santa.