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popdafoo said:
...it makes about as much sense as an explosion creating all life as we know it.
Except that there is actual evidence of abiogenesis and nothing to support your fairytails about magic men in the sky.
 

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popdafoo said:
I have no place arguing with you people. If you think intelligent design is a bunch of bull, it makes about as much sense as an explosion creating all life as we know it.
Is that a jab at the Big Bang Theory? because there's proof for the Big Bang Theory
 

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Logic 0 said:
he's a marter for his belives, Because people have always been procuted for there religon.
Don't you have to die to be a martyr? By definition. And sorry but that's not prosecution, it's common sense. Secularism is really the best way here.
 

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WhiteTiger225 said:
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popdafoo said:
Riding on Thermals said:
How do you define a "real" religion? Why is someone's fervent (and sometimes fanatical) belief in a supreme being license to do things that can be entirely counter to the mainstream accepted culture? FSM advocates being a virtuous person, it has a moral code, what makes it less legitimate than others?
Because it was made as a joke. To make fun of religions like my own.

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?"
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...
Now now, I obviously understand that this kid in the article did it for the lulz. And that most people use it today in overbearing mockery of [massive sarcasm quotes]"real religions"[/massive sarcasm quotes] but it was started as as much of a joke as A Modest Proposal
 

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Eoin Livingston said:
Is that a jab at the Big Bang Theory? because there's proof for the Big Bang Theory
Proof? Like... someone being there to witness it? Call me a hypocrite, but I won't accept any less evidence.
 

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popdafoo said:
Eoin Livingston said:
Is that a jab at the Big Bang Theory? because there's proof for the Big Bang Theory
Proof? Like... someone being there to witness it? Call me a hypocrite, but I won't accept any less evidence.
First of all we don't need eye witnesses and second where's your's?
 

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WhiteTiger225 said:
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.
He can believe it but I doubt he does. That's all I'm saying!
I know you're trying to say "everything has the same value" but that's not fully true. A religion gains it's value as a religion through faith so unless he really believes this stuff, he is just trying to be a rebel and make a statement.

Again, read what I wrote: If he really believes, he should still not wear a fully stereotypical pirate outfit (because it disrupts classes) but he should be allowed to wear pirate-type clothing to compromise with his beliefs.

If he really believed then, yes, his religion however wacky, would be just as valuable as any other. But I have no reason to assume that he does really believe in it seeing as this "religion" was created to point out logical fallacies in other religions, not become an actual religion itself.
 

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Uhm... what religion worships pirates exactly...? Not that I have anything against it, it's just I've never heard of such a thing lol. Then again it wouldn't be surprising that I didn't know about it since I don't get involved with any religion.
 

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Riding on Thermals said:
WhiteTiger225 said:
Riding on Thermals said:
popdafoo said:
Riding on Thermals said:
How do you define a "real" religion? Why is someone's fervent (and sometimes fanatical) belief in a supreme being license to do things that can be entirely counter to the mainstream accepted culture? FSM advocates being a virtuous person, it has a moral code, what makes it less legitimate than others?
Because it was made as a joke. To make fun of religions like my own.

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?"
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...
Now now, I obviously understand that this kid in the article did it for the lulz. And that most people use it today in overbearing mockery of [massive sarcasm quotes]"real religions"[/massive sarcasm quotes] but it was started as as much of a joke as A Modest Proposal
But thing is... Many things that we know today started off with roots buried in fiction (Robots, Micro computers, flying cars, space travel, DNA resequencing, etc) so why can't someone come to believe a faith that started as a mockery of other religions? Maybe he realized that this religion was actually right?
 

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popdafoo said:
Eoin Livingston said:
Is that a jab at the Big Bang Theory? because there's proof for the Big Bang Theory
Proof? Like... someone being there to witness it? Call me a hypocrite, but I won't accept any less evidence.
By "proof" he means that we can recreate the Big Bang in small scale and observe predictable and repeatable behavior. I don't know which flavor religion you subscribe to, but you believe the "witness" given by those texts as interpreted by hundreds of translations over thousands of years as fact?