Comments on: Religious People Are Nerds https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/religious-people-are-nerds/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Erik https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/religious-people-are-nerds/comment-page-1/#comment-353861 Erik Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:41:05 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26813#comment-353861 Another problem – the video uses “religious people” to mean approximately “Christians”. Numerous religions aren’t evangelizing. Some don’t even accept converts. Nor do all religions have a sacred scripture to hold proof-texting arguments over.

The video makes an exemption, too, for “not all religious people, like not this guy”.

Any one of these could have been understandable, since a lot of humor involves squinting to see how something looks like something else. But with all three objections together, “Religious people are nerds” has turned into “A subset of Christians are passionate”, which isn’t funny to me. The joke just falls flat.

]]> By: Erik https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/religious-people-are-nerds/comment-page-1/#comment-353848 Erik Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:29:08 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26813#comment-353848 The video appears to be broadly interpreting nerds as “non-apathetic people”. But by this analysis, jocks are also nerds. This is a poor definition that doesn’t capture the group being referred to by “nerds” in ordinary usage. It’s as though someone defined “fire” to mean reddish-orange moving things and claiming that his bicycle was made of fire.

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