# Der Trihs Pitting du jour **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714 "2011-01-07T04:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/61 "2011-01-08T07:23:05Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > People **Der Trihs** Hates: > > Theists > Christians > Muslims > Jews > Zionists > Republicans > Conservatives > Libetarians > Communists > Pro-lifers > Americans > Founding Fathers > American Soldiers Whoa, whoa, whoa… DT doesn’t like Theists or Christians!? Where the fuck have **I** been? ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/62 "2011-01-08T13:13:24Z")
**Der Trihs Fighting Rational Thought since 2005** (It’s Taking Longer Than We Thought) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/63 "2011-01-08T15:46:46Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > I’ve often wondered if he is really an atheist at all. He seems like someone who is just angry with God. Maybe he lost someone he loved dearly and blames God. Just so much hate that it seems almost phony. Atheists are often accused of this, and I’ve never see an example of it being true. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/64 "2011-01-08T16:03:14Z")
Yeah, the whole “I believed in God until my brother died” or whatever seems to be a movie trope and not necessarily rooted in reality- at least in comparison to how often atheists are accused of it. A pair of religious women (Mormon maybe? I know they travel in pairs of males and females but do the girls wear uniforms like the guys? Because these two weren’t in uniform) came to my door two or so years ago. I politely told them that I was an atheist and wasn’t interested, hoping that would be the end of the matter, but they proceeded to ask if it was because of all the bad things that happen in the world. I’m not sure if they asked that because they encountered it often or because they already had a rationalized response to that prepared. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/65 "2011-01-08T16:03:17Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > I’ve often wondered if he is really an atheist at all. He seems like someone who is just angry with God. Maybe he lost someone he loved dearly and blames God. Just so much hate that it seems almost phony. That would certainly be Jack Chick’s take on him. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/66 "2011-01-08T16:30:58Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > That would certainly be Jack Chick’s take on him. I think the Chickster would say it was because he was attacked by demons. HAW! HAW! HAW! Of course in the Gospel According to Jack Chick demons are responsible for everything from sour milk to feeling not so fresh. Or maybe it’s Catholics. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/67 "2011-01-08T16:38:25Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Yeah, the whole “I believed in God until my brother died” or whatever seems to be a movie trope and not necessarily rooted in reality- at least in comparison to how often atheists are accused of it. A pair of religious women (Mormon maybe? I know they travel in pairs of males and females but do the girls wear uniforms like the guys? Because these two weren’t in uniform) came to my door two or so years ago. I politely told them that I was an atheist and wasn’t interested, hoping that would be the end of the matter, but they proceeded to ask if it was because of all the bad things that happen in the world. I’m not sure if they asked that because they encountered it often or because they already had a rationalized response to that prepared. I think it’s Jedis. Or Missi Dominici. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/68 "2011-01-08T17:28:50Z")
I do believe **Der Trihs** has said he has no religious friends because he “doesn’t trust them”. Um, okay. > [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > I still recall he decalred he knew he had a high chance of being executed in a Christianist Concentration Camp. I never really had anythig to say to that one. Yes, I believe he said something that all Christians secretly want to exterminate atheists in camps or something like that. Unless he’s talking about camps for annoying dickhead nutjobs? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/69 "2011-01-08T23:51:51Z")
His logic, I believe, is that Christianity as a religion says that atheists should be converted or killed; thus, if a Christian doesn’t believe in it, they aren’t sufficiently believing in their religion to be actually Christian. I believe something about bagpipes comes to mind…? ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/70 "2011-01-09T00:25:18Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Well, living in America, he’s obviously a sociopath. Nearly. > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > What the heck is a near-sociopath, anyway? It’s the sociopath who lives next door. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/71 "2011-01-09T18:37:10Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > I’ve often wondered if he is really an atheist at all. He seems like someone who is just angry with God. Maybe he lost someone he loved dearly and blames God. Just so much hate that it seems almost phony. No, I think his problem is with religion/religious people, not with God. I’m not qualified to psychoanalyze someone over the Internet; but if I were speculating, I’d guess he has a bit of paranoia or persecution complex, possibly brought on or exacerbated by bad experiences with religious people. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/72 "2011-01-09T21:22:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I didn’t make any charges about him. But there are a lot of people here who say they agree with him. I don’t think they’ve paid much attention to his posts about Americans. I’m waiting to hear what they have to say about the cites in this thread. I have no problem with his stance on Americans. While I might phrase it less … colourfully, shall we say…it pretty much jibes with my own opinion that America is just no damn good. Not that some of my best friends aren’t American, mind you. Oh wait, no, they’re Canadian… ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/73 "2011-01-09T21:34:33Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I have no problem with his stance on Americans. Congratulations, you’re not a racist! (you’re a bigot) Now if it was an issue with those uppity South Africans that’d be an entirely different matter. You’ve just got to hate the correct group of people, is all. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/74 "2011-01-09T21:36:16Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I have no problem with his stance on Americans. While I might phrase it less … colourfully, shall we say…it pretty much jibes with my own opinion that America is just no damn good. > Not that some of my best friends aren’t American, mind you. Oh wait, no, they’re Canadian… You hate the vast majority of posters on this board? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/75 "2011-01-10T00:49:08Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > You hate the vast majority of posters on this board? And not just that, but you [**MrDibble**] think the vast majority of posters on this board are near-sociopaths? ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/76 "2011-01-10T01:34:40Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > They say it’s sure sign of mental illness when you think everyone is wrong but you. How someone as otherwise intelligent as he is can think that every religious person is mentally ill, or that anyone with any connection to the Iraq war including desk jockeys should be killed, or that most of a nation’s populace is verging on being sociopaths, cannot see that something must be wrong with his own mind is beyond me. Why do we think he is intelligent? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/77 "2011-01-10T08:30:11Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > You hate the vast majority of posters on this board? No. Why should one logically follow from the other? Sounds like Fallacy of Division to me. > [@suranyi](#): > > And not just that, but you [**MrDibble**] think the vast majority of posters on this board are near-sociopaths? Once again, I am missing the logical connection or you’re commiting the same fallacy as **Kong**. > [@FinnAgain](#): > > Congratulations, you’re not a racist! (you’re a bigot) I’m not a bigot - bigotry is irrational. My dislike for (collective) America is entirely based on sound reasons, such as its past warmongering actions and current popular rhetoric. > [@FinnAgain](#): > > Now if it was an issue with those uppity South Africans that’d be an entirely different matter. You’ve just got to hate the correct group of people, is all. Oh, **Finn** , when will you realize I’m no nationalist. Am I supposed to bridle at any negative mention of South Africa? Didn’t you learn your lesson in that last Israeli espionage thread? You’re so\* cute \*when you attempt to tu quoque with the big boys, yes, you are! ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/78 "2011-01-10T09:21:35Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > And not just that, but you [**MrDibble**] think the vast majority of posters on this board are near-sociopaths? You have to admit that’s not the best argument you could come up with. Most of the posters are defintely near-sociopaths (whatever their nationalities, I might add). ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/79 "2011-01-10T12:05:59Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > No. Why should one logically follow from the other? Sounds like Fallacy of Division to me. Bigotry, like racism, indicates literal flaws in the function of an otherwise healthy mind. It is little surprise that you babble your hatred and your bigot-brain cannot comprehend what that means about your targets. > [@](#): > > I’m not a bigot - bigotry is irrational. Ah, the Bigot’s Lament. “Yes, I hate blacks (except for the _good ones_), but they deserve it because they are bad.” “Sure I hate Jews (except the good ones who denounce the evils of Jewry), but that’s because Jews cause anti-Semitism by their actions.” “I’m not a racist, my group-hatred is rational!” Poor, broken bigot-brain. > [@](#): > > Oh, **Finn** , when will you realize I’m no nationalist. Am I supposed to bridle at any negative mention of South Africa? You’re not a nationalist, you say, so you remain unphased if bigotry is directed at a nation. You are unable to comprehend that it’s the bigotry that is objectionable and not the national pride that must be defended. And you’re so stupid that you believe I used a tu quoque. To say nothing if your grasping obsessions over threads years past. Poor fool. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/80 "2011-01-10T13:21:59Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > To say nothing if _of_ Ah well, posting from an iPod is not ideal. Neither is having a broken brain that tells you it’s okay to hate groups as long as it’s based on nationality and not race. Such is life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714.md?page=5)