# I pit those who pit Der Trihs. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212 "2011-02-04T22:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/41 "2011-02-05T06:41:47Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Considering the fact that most Tea Party members worship Ayn Rand, who was one of the most outspoken atheists of the 20th Century I can say that anyone who claims that a “Tea Party government” would start executing atheists is either incredibly stupid or delusional. Expecting Tea Partiers to know that Rand was an atheist, or to have read her very thick books is incredibly delusional. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/42 "2011-02-05T06:57:31Z")
You guys are just freaking _clueless_, you know that? Your brains are filled with hateful stereotypes of your ‘enemies’, and they’ve completely freaking blinded you. NO ONE is at any risk in America of being arrested or punished by any government for being an athiest. There were self-declared athiests in America throughout its entire history, and none of them were ever persecuted. The ‘Tea Party’ is bloody well _crawling_ with athiests. The libertarians have a high percentage of athiest members. The bloody _National Review_ has a number of athiests among its writers. _Reason_ magazine is very popular on the right, and it is avowedly anti-religious. Christopher Hitchens is a very respected figure on the right, and he’s not just an athiest, he’s on a mission to discredit religion. The worst thing you have to fear from a ‘Tea Party’ government is a lot of typical idiocy - battles over prayer in school and an attempt to further restrict abortion. That’s bad enough. But if you think they’re going to start rounding up the likes of you and putting you against the wall, then you really need to pop your little liberal echo chamber bubble and start trying to acquaint yourself with reality. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/43 "2011-02-05T07:23:47Z")
Well, that’s why we have you, **Sam**. Reality checks. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/44 "2011-02-05T07:47:31Z")
They don’t seem to be working very well. Sam? Are you sure the reality checker is on?? Or is the check in the mail…? -XT ---
**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:** [February 5, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/45 "2011-02-05T07:49:07Z")
Some folks just don’t check checks, XT. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/46 "2011-02-05T08:00:42Z")
Sam: That’s “ath **ei** st”. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/47 "2011-02-05T09:55:27Z")
Splitter. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/48 "2011-02-05T10:03:35Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Expecting Tea Partiers to know that Rand was an atheist, or to have read her very thick books is incredibly delusional. They would read them except their mouths get tired from sounding out all the big words. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/49 "2011-02-05T10:19:09Z")
Obviously, if the Tea party came to power, there would be a bloodbath in which the atheist members of the Tea party would be systematically murdered by the fundy Christian TP members, and vice versa, in an attempt to make sure those hated atheists (and hated Christians) don’t destroy the ideological purity of the Party, as seen by those two mutually exclusive wings. The rest of us could stand on the sidelines, out of the line of fire, while The Tea Party gets whittled down to two or three non-Xian, non-atheist loonies. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/50 "2011-02-05T15:20:23Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I kind of picture him like Mel Gibson in that Passion of the Christ South Park episode. > [@Guinastasia](#): > > Who – **magellan** or **Der Trihs**? **Der Trihs**. **magellan** says some odd things, but he doesn’t have DT’s victim complex. Now, there are certainly some people 'round here on the right who do… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/51 "2011-02-05T16:20:14Z")
So, when I was in Prague, a midget was looking for a place to hide and asked me if I could cache a small Czech. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/52 "2011-02-05T16:33:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > So, when I was in Prague, a midget was looking for a place to hide and asked me if I could cache a small Czech. It may be time for another defenestration… ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/53 "2011-02-05T16:52:01Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > As can be seen [here,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13430468&postcount=23) this mother fucker is in dire need of psychiatric help. Here’s the gem from GD that caused me to comment and get admonished by a mod: > > So, to all you sane, intelligent, well-balanced individuals, stop it! You’re being cruel. It’s NOT his fault. Some chromosomes got twisted or something. > > There. Now I feel better having done my good deed. Der Trihs is nuts alright. Teabagger brownshirts are gonna go after the Mexicans and gays first. As long as liberals stay out of the way and not do their librul activist stuff, they’ll be fine. Same with atheists. As long as they keep their mouths when their kids are forced to say prayers in school and listen to ‘intelligent design’ in biology, they’ll be fine. Of course the more rare Ayn Rand-worshipping teabaggers may be slightly disturbed but, hey, as long as they don’t have to pay taxes for socialist stuff, it’ll all be good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/54 "2011-02-05T17:17:47Z")
Wow. I thought Palin, Bachmann and Beck were stupid, but some of the comments in this thread make those guys look like geniuses. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/55 "2011-02-05T17:33:23Z")
Well, I pit those who pit those who pit those who pit those who pit… wait, I’ve lost count. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/56 "2011-02-05T17:34:04Z")
_The Sorrow and the Pitee._ ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/57 "2011-02-05T19:27:41Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Depends, calling another posters nuts while you’re backing an insane position is very ironic. Non-responsive. > [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > If Obama is so antigay marriage why did he oppose prop 8? Don’t know. But as you know, my point is that he thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman. That’s a fact. So, is he also deranged, insane, uncritical thinker, etc.? > [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Okay name one good nonbigoted argument against gay marriage. Please back this up with an example of harm caused in other countries with gay marriage. Ask yourself why you included that second sentence? Think hard about it. The answer will is the very light you seek. And if you can’t think of it, do a search. This thread is not about SSM. If you’d like to discuss that, start a thread. > [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Hint: if you’re answer in any way, shape, or form includes Nazi Germany than you’re insane, or very hateful of Canada. Nazi Germany!??? ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/58 "2011-02-05T21:39:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Wow. I thought Palin, Bachmann and Beck were stupid, but some of the comments in this thread make those guys look like geniuses. Yeah, like this thread is a serious discussion. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/59 "2011-02-05T22:31:32Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > Yeah, like this thread is a serious discussion. For some people it has been. Do you really need me to point you to the posts that were? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212/60 "2011-02-06T00:22:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Wow. I thought Palin, Bachmann and Beck were stupid, but some of the comments in this thread make those guys look like geniuses. I pit you for your lack of respect for the serial comma. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-those-who-pit-der-trihs/570212.md?page=4)