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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm late to the party. While I craft my answer about God, would the OP please tell us why s/he does not believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? This is OP's chance to explain his/herself.[/quote].

This post makes me think of when strangers see me with my children and say, "you've got your hands full!"

I smile politely at their reflexive, unthinking stab at wit, and then I move on with my day.[/quote]

Not PP here, but I think OP's response to the FSM question is actually quite illuminating.  The question is, why do you not believe in some arbitrary entity.  But of course, OP finds the very question insulting.  After all, the FSM "brand" is no where near as much market penetration as the "God hypothesis".  After all, Ben Franklin believed in "God".

Very telling that the only response to "Why don't you believe in Poseidon?" or "Why don't you believe in the FSM?" is "Don't be ridiculous!"

But that's really at the heart of the debate.  And when you ask these reasonable questions that are designed to illuminate the shaky foundations of the God hypothesis, you get poetry and defensiveness.

Again, "Why don't you believe in FSM rather than the Christian god?"  Or "Why don't you believe in the 'evil God hypothesis'?" which actually seems more plausible frankly.  These are legitimate questions--as much as you'd like to frame them as "coarsening the debate" or some other such dodge.[/quote]

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