What is it with athiests and the FSM?

Question

Can't you come up with something better?

Answer 1

Apparently, you don't recognize a brilliant parody when it slaps you in the face with its noodly appendage.

Answer 2

Uh, I didn't come up with the FSM.

I think it's brilliant -- you should type Flying Spaghetti Monster into your favorite search engine and read the story.

What's your problem with it?

What's better, of course, is respect for evidence and reason; but when people refuse to do that, then silliness is a reasonable response.

As for something better, what did you have in mind?

Answer 3

I've been saying the same damn thing for 2 months now...

'Pastafarianism' is, - particularly here on Y!A R&S,...
... an all-too-worn-out religious parody which is rooted in Bertand Russell's half-century old, analogous "Celestial Teapot" argument,... and has now become just as banal as the Invisible Pink Unicorn, Frisbeetarianism, and other parodies of that ilk.

In fact, - having been a witness to dozens of mind-numbing Pastafarian-related questions, I move that, henceforth,...
... any questions which make reference to The Flying Spaghetti Monster, or any other traditions, tenets, or manifestations of Pastafarianism,... be considered as 'drinking questions'.

Anyone care to second the motion?

[Hell,... I'm drinking anyway]...;-)
---..."Skol!"... *clink*.. (glug).. "Ahhhh, - smooooth!"...

[For the record, - I'm agnostic, with atheistic inclinations]
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Answer 4

One would think people could come up with a better concept than the Judeo-Christian deity.......

The supposed omniscient, all-powerful deity repeatedly acts like a 5 year old throughout the Bible.

The "FSM" exists to show how easy it is to create a deity, one that is even more logical than a current mainstream religion.

Answer 5

Well, the FSM is the best parallel for a theistic belief in God. All of the arguments for the existence of God also prove the existence of the FSM (except for the teleological argument, cosmological argument, argument from causality, ontological argument, argument from design, argument from necessity, pantheistic argument, panentheistic argument, or the definition of God as the sum of all positive properties).

Answer 6

Don't need anything better.

If the God believers had any better reason for believing their god exists, then, perhaps, we'd have to come up with a better analogy. As it is, the FSM, as silly as it is, really holds up well against the arguments for God's existence. They're both just as silly.

Answer 7

The FSM actually makes more sense than the biblical god if you read the gospels of the flying spaghetti monster.

Answer 8

They've made human intellect their god. In their hearts, they feel the emptiness of their lives. They can hear the ice cracking beneath them, but they're too "intelligent" and "reasonable" to admit the truth, so they sublimate their fear in mockery. Hence the FSM.

Answer 9

We have.

The invisible pink unicorn (Eley).

The celestial teapot (Russell).

Fairies in the bottom of the Garden (Dawkins).

All of these, in addition to the FSM, are simply examples of replacement deities, that when their existence is justified in the same way that God is justified, end up being just as viable as entities as God. By extension, God is no more likely to exist than they are.

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Answer 10

How can you go wrong with a deity who's both all-powerful AND delicious?