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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]everytime I see "flying spaghetti monster" , I thinks silly made up mommy blogger nonsense.[/quote]

Good! Then there's some hope for you (at least from the atheist perspective). The FSM was made up to be a foil for deities that others consider to be "real." If you look at the FSM and say, "That's just silly," then hopefully you will take that same skeptical perspective and apply it to the theology of whatever deity you believe in.

After all, I think it's safe to say that you don't believe in the Greek, Roman, Egyptian or Norse pantheons, and you just consider that mythology to be "primitive beliefs created to explain natural events that they didn't understand," and you smile, patronizingly, when thinking about how science has explained all of those things like weather, germ theory, biology, etc.

Similarly, odds are that you look at the story of Joseph Smith, the gold plates and the hat and think, "Who falls for that? What a con job!"

Then we get to the Scientologists, with the story of Xenu, and most people would look at that and think it's completely silly. After all, aliens, "thetans" and e-meters, along with paid sessions and analysis to advance just seems like a complete scam to those not inside the cult.

But for some reason, when we talk about the mythology of Christianity, all reason goes out the window. Even though you can look at the primitivism and lack of rationality associated with those other belief structures, when we talk about Adam & Eve, talking snakes, burning bushes, parting seas, virgin births, resurrection, transubstantiation, etc., people start jumping up and down about [b]TRUTH[/b].

The mythology of the FSM was created to counter those who were claiming that Creationism/Intelligent Design should be taught in schools because those believers don't like the scientific conclusions based on the Theory of Evolution. If you can look at the FSM mythology and think it's silly, then maybe you'll look at the Christian mythology with a little more scrutiny.   [/quote]

Well the point, that others besides me have made very eloquently, including the PP with the clip, is that the FSM is actually a very bad analogy to religious belief. I just posted the piece above on the Trinity, so I won't repeat the arguments someone else made just a page ago on why the FSM is such a bad analogy, but perhaps you need to review this thread.[/quote]

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