pilcrow wrote:You know, the Flying Spaghetti Monster “argument” would make a little more sense if there had not been, throughout human history, a majority opinion that there is some such thing as a prime mover, an uncaused cause, etc.—i.e., a “god” if you will—lying behind the creation of the world. No society ever postulated a FSM as far as I know.
Do you feel love for your children? Can you prove to me that what you feel for your children is indeed love and not a barely restrained urge to, say, douse them with tomato sauce? Can’t prove that? Then I don’t believe you love your children.
Makes about as much sense.
makes about as much sense as a society who would want to worship, planets, say?
Oh hold on a minute...
The Romans ran the world and built temples to all sorts of crazy planet gods.
Now no-one does that anymore. Is this religion any less valid than yours simply becasue no-one believes it anymore? Or do religions only exist if people are there to believe them.
The Roman gods were around for a very long time and yet despite them being dumped by the entire human race, they have not smote their revenge or in fact done anything at all to vent their displeasure in a way that we can specifically attribute to them.
I know you don't disgaree with that because to do so would be to agree that there are more gods than just your god.
Oh hold on....
There are, to the atheists, more gods apparent than just yours...there is lord Brahma for the hindus and allah and god and etc.etc. round the world.
Why would any rational thinker believe the situation is any different now than it was in Egyptian times or Roman times or any time where they worshipped gods that now no longer exist as viable alternatives?
Answer: We wouldn't. Its as much horse shit now as it was then, just the names have changed and the temples are different and we (probably) don't deliberately sacrifice humans.
And of course, you cannot say no to this either, becasue you already agreed you would respect your children if they chose another path than yours. What if they chose ancient egyptian gods? Is that OK to you? Does that no invlaidate your own beliefs? Or is it you would repfer they chose an alternative skygod to pacify your need for some sort of validation of your own beliefs.
So now, we know you cannot say no to alternative religions, why not the FSM?
He may not be a trendy religion yet, but we can start today. We can write a "bible" of his noodly teachings and in 2000 years time all will worship him.
For me, there is no difference except your craziness is happening now and the Roman craziness is in the past and the FSM craziness is in the future.
It is however, all the same.
