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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
DBB, I'm not busting on you, but the Flying Spaghetti Monster thing always just seemed mean spirited to me, much like some devoted believers so I get that.
But personally, if I were a resolved non-believer, I don't think I would waste any of my time baiting the religious. What's the only thing that would be more pathetic than devoting your life to an irrational belief system? Devoting your life to mocking those who hold an irrational belief system.
ETA: I was looking at the site, and I concede on the point of resisting the teaching of Creationism in school, it's effective, which really was their point. Actually, I think all effective resistance would take is promoting exactly how specifically religious Intelligent Design is. For a long time, I though it just kind of said, hey maybe evolution didn't just happen on its own. When it says instead stuff more like, "and at this point, we think God did this and here's why."
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Except that the people who want intelligent design taught in school know exactly how religious it is. They're the ones who repackaged it as faux science. No one else is really fooled. They want to be able to teach that "some supreme being" (aka GOD) created things, but ignore the fact that intelligent design is an equally valid description of what happened when the FSM stretched out his noodly appendage. It's real purpose is an exercise in absurdity. Some of taken the FSM further than that, but that's really all it is.
/Ramen.
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