It wasn't made as a joke. It was made as a hyperbole. It was made to expose the ridiculousness of Intelligent Design being taught as scientific fact in schools, not to mock the entirety of religion. Get your facts straight first, then you can make your argument. What makes your religion "right?"popdafoo said:
If one person claims to believe in a god, and another person claims to believe in a flying spaghetti monster, how do you propose to tell whether either of them "actually believe" it or not?Cheeze_Pavilion said:
I actually am okay with people believing whatever they want to. But when you force everyone else to conform to your beliefs, especially when it is strictly as a joke, that's kind of a dick move. This kid trying to make an entire school board suffer because of his whack job beliefs is just retar.....Riding on Thermals said:
Really? So just because his religion seems stupid to you, you automatically assume he is trying to make a statement? PROVE TO ME that there is no invisible spaghetti monster and that gravity is not just said monster holding us down with his noodley appendages and that thats NOT the reason why he has blessed the asian people the most (Seeing as they are much shorter)Skeleon said:
You win the award for greatest pun ever.Mezzamine said:
Now here's an actual argument. The counter being, of course, that you can't prove what people "believe" and what they don't. Now, I personally like the whole concept of FSM because of how it was started and why, but I don't believe in it as a faith. However, you did bring up the First Amendment, so: basically, you can't dictate what someone else believes. That would patently defeat the point of the AmandmentCheeze_Pavilion said:
Yeah, this guy would also argue that believing in an invisible man that flies through the sky at night and gives gifts to those that believe in him and do good deeds is a jok- waaaaaaait a minuuute...Riding on Thermals said:
You don't think people actually believe in the FSM? A reasonable position, but could you prove it in a court of law? Of course not. Looking at it objectively, most religions are totally absurd. I mean, the Greek gods were nothing but a bunch of inbred jerks with superpowers, and have you seen the eastern religions.Cheeze_Pavilion said:
"The Flying Spaghetti Monster (or FSM) is the deity of the parody religion"Riding on Thermals said:
Prove to me he doesn't. Again, you claim no proof, you do not claim actual factual evidence against his case. And why can't he believe it? It's okay for someone to wear a cross that represents a invisible bearded man who lives in a cloud, punishes those who go against his orders that he had a man write down for him and so forth? Same concept goes to muslim religion. They should be suspended for wearing headwear during class.Skeleon said:
