# All religious people should be executed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863 "2010-06-12T00:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/261 "2010-06-14T23:34:47Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > I said I was laughing at the ones that took umbrage. People like you. So blatant trollery, then. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/262 "2010-06-14T23:36:30Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Which religious nutjobs? If you’d been paying attention with the nubby little stump where your brain should have grown, you’d know I’m an atheist. Damn, he can’t even execute the right people. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/263 "2010-06-14T23:41:02Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > - I don’t hate religious people or even religion itself. I just strongly dislike it You’re delusional. Wanting to kill people over a thing, unless you’re a sociopath, means you care quite deeply about the thing. You hate it. Or you’re a crazy sociopath. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/264 "2010-06-14T23:41:09Z")
Yawn. Trollery is saying things to deliberately get a rise out of people. I didn’t do that - I just said what I was thinking (in the op). The subsequent mirth I have felt has been as a result of some of the hysterical reactions. I haven’t trolled once in this thread. I appreciate there can be a subtle difference between saying what you think (if what you think is quite outlandish) and trollery but there is a difference. Me laughing at you is not an admission of trollery but a statement on how funny you are. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/265 "2010-06-14T23:42:16Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > You fall squarely into the camp of humourless atheist. Are you sure? A few minutes ago I was a religious nutjob. \*It doesn’t help us if you’re inconsistent \*…(guitar twang) ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/266 "2010-06-14T23:44:21Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > Trollery is saying things to deliberately get a rise out of people. I didn’t do that - I just said what I was thinking (in the op). You’re lying and everybody knows it. Milk the last dregs of attention from this thread because I imagine that further efforts will be doomed to failure. You’ll never be taken seriously again. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/267 "2010-06-14T23:46:01Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > You’re delusional. Wanting to kill people over a thing, unless you’re a sociopath, means you care quite deeply about the thing. You hate it. Or you’re a crazy sociopath. I might be a sociopath, I dunno. I’d have to look up the precise definition. I dislike the fact that millions of people all over the world are living in pointless self-imposed mental prisons. I wish they could break out. So I do care about it. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/268 "2010-06-14T23:47:46Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > You’re lying and everybody knows it. Milk the last dregs of attention from this thread because I imagine that further efforts will be doomed to failure. You’ll never be taken seriously again. How do you know I’m lying (just out of interest)? And don’t worry, I have much whackier theories than this thread. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/269 "2010-06-14T23:52:08Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > How do you know I’m lying (just out of interest)? > > And don’t worry, I have much whackier theories than this thread. Your constant passive-aggressive contradictions are a good indication–“no, I don’t _really_ want to kill them… but I think it’d be a good idea!” Really, I think that you posted something trollish, then when called on it, you dug yourself in deeper and deeper. Now you can’t get out of the hole you’ve dug. Quit digging and fess up. It’s probably the only way you can salvage your reputation. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/270 "2010-06-14T23:58:17Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I think we can give the Jewish folks a pass. They have no interest in converting us. Or killing us for that matter. You weren’t a Canaanite around 1300 BCE. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/271 "2010-06-14T23:59:25Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > Actually it does work that way, bozo. I started the thread so I can request closure. I only requested closure because the humour impaired were starting to show up in droves not because I have a problem with the subject matter. > > I really really don’t like religion. My dislike of religion is stronger and more powerful than I think you realise. Whilst I’m obviously joking that I’d like to execute all religious people, there’s a part of me that would seriously like to do it. Maybe as payback for all the people the religious have executed over the centuries and continue to do so today. WTF? The vast majority of “people the religious have executed over the centuries” were religious as well. So isn’t all a wash, in your disturbing little mind? ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/272 "2010-06-15T00:01:20Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > You weren’t a Canaanite around 1300 BCE. OTOH, very few secular scholars, if any, believe in the historicity of Joshua and the Israelite conquest of Canaan. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/273 "2010-06-15T00:03:44Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#): > > WTF? The vast majority of “people the religious have executed over the centuries” were religious as well. So isn’t all a wash, in your disturbing little mind? Good point. I dislike the religious for executing a lot of people but the people who they executed were themselves religious - who I want executing. Hmm…quandary ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/274 "2010-06-15T01:32:41Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > In fact I’m usually funnier than most of the people I argue against. Says you. (Then again, maybe you are funny…but not in the way you think you are.) ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/275 "2010-06-15T02:04:10Z")
Let’s just start with something less controversial. Kill all the scientologists first and see how that works out. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/276 "2010-06-15T03:51:10Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > Actually it does work that way, bozo. I started the thread so I can request closure. I only requested closure because the humour impaired were starting to show up in droves not because I have a problem with the subject matter. > > I really really don’t like religion. My dislike of religion is stronger and more powerful than I think you realise. _ **Whilst I’m obviously joking that I’d like to execute all religious people** _, there’s a part of me that would seriously like to do it. Maybe as payback for all the people the religious have executed over the centuries and continue to do so today. Aaaaaand we have our money quote. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/277 "2010-06-15T03:56:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Is there a button to request a new pony? > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Well, if there’s not, then what the hell have I been pushing? Thank you for choosing Close Enouh[sup]TM[/sup] Personal Services to meet your pony-crap delivering needs… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/278 "2010-06-15T03:59:21Z")
Where I come from, everyone had a pony! I had a pony! ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/279 "2010-06-15T08:50:00Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Aaaaaand we have our money quote. If you’re going to be pedantic; if he’s obviously joking (and it really was obvious), then it can’t be trolling. Trolls try to deceive people. But seriously **mutantmoose** it was a funny thread uptil the last few pages, don’t let them pull you down to their level now. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/280 "2010-06-15T13:11:31Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Says you. > (Then again, maybe you are funny…but not in the way you think you are.) It’s funny, but not ha-ha funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=15)