Thread:User talk:Tmtoulouse/Bump: You know that obnoxious thing people do on the internet when they've said something and they feel they haven't been paid enough attention? I'm doing that./reply (24)

I think there's a big difference there. People that don't vaccinate their kids are putting their children in clear and obvious danger. People that bring their kids to Sunday school are doing no such thing.

As to you hypothesis/Bayesian stuff (forgive me for not understanding. Much of the science on this wiki is far beyond me), you keep insisting we apply this standard to things that are in my eyes irrelevant to it. When you last read Lord of the Rings, did you scoff at the depictions of ents since plants have no muscle? Did you claim it to be improbable that Sauron affix all his power to the one ring? Religion is not irrational because it is not based on observations of the natural world and generally admits to being unfalsifiable. Creationism is irrational because they draw conclusions that can easily be disproved and ignore and deny the body of evidence against them.

Finally, for a more pragmatic argument, "coddling" would accomplish far more than insulting. New Atheists are only widening the fissure. Pissing people off rarely teaches them anything.

BTW, thanks Maratrean and ListenerX for stepping in to help me. And if it's at all relevant, I'm an atheist. Always have been, my parents are atheists, and my grandparents are atheists.