How to reason with the unreasonable

The problem with leaving comments on various websites is dealing with the occasional idiot who replies. 

Today there were two very old comments that I left hanging out in odd places that got belated replies, which interestingly contradicted each other.

The first reply came from the sort of genius who supports the ultranationalist British National Party. Having read that I was an atheist, he then jumps to his own logical (????) thinking that as a non-Christian (true - atheists are not Christians), I must then be a Muslim, or at the very least a Muslim sympathiser.

As he should know (but is incapable of understanding - well anyone who supports the BNP will not be capable of much by way of brainpower!), atheism involves denial of all beliefs. Which includes Christianity, Islam (in case my BNP correspondent is reading this, that equals Muslims), Judaism, Hinduism, Greek and Norse mythology usw.

No God, no after life, no need to believe anything.

I did have a great relationship with my parents when they were alive, and they were committed Methodists, so I suppose that makes me a Christian sympathiser? Separate the people from the belief system, I will get on with anyone, ask my Buddhist wife (who had me praying on my birthday - not quite sure what to, and I do not expect anything to result from it, but the things we do for love!).

Second reply meanwhile came from a Muslim! Sympathetic? Not exactly. My tongue-in-cheek comment about Australian Muslim women being down the beach sunning themselves in their bikinis and passing round the ham sandwiches while there husbands were taking time off work to protest summat or other .... Let's say that they did not get the joke and leave it at that! Oh, and Allah will apparently be taking revenge on me (most likely as he doesn't exist, some human will come in his place, suitably armed and I do not mean with the Koran!).

Meanwhile I noted that 64% of Americans do not want a Muslim President under any circumstances.

Not surprising.

That was followed by the fact that 67% of Americans would not want an atheist as President. Huh?

Atheists reason, they think, they draw conclusions, they are logical.  Dangerous they are not!

Not my place to tell you this, but you do not want a logical, reasonable person running your country? Ah, well.

I also noted that American ultraconservative commentator, Ann Coulter, seems to have seen the propaganda value in this. Obama is not, after all, a Muslim - he is an atheist.

Well he definitely is not a Muslim, and both his parents were actually atheists! This could be the mushrooming very important non-story of the Presidential election campaign.

As for Germany, not sure what Merkel is, incidentally, or the SDP leader who might replace her next year. Somehow things like that do not matter here! Which is pretty much what it should be!

Postscript. Angela Merkel is the daughter of a Protestant pastor, and during the Syrian refugee crisis described taking in refugees as a "good Christian thing to do!".