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I share this concern. I think Flat Earthers and Pastafarians both provide an excellent service to society: they demonstrate many persons' inability to argue fr
by CoastalCoder 5y ago
I share this concern.
I think Flat Earthers and Pastafarians both provide an excellent service to society: they demonstrate many persons' inability to argue from agreed-upon premises to a widely held belief. I.e., they demonstrate that many of our emperors have no clothes. Unfortunately I'm not seeing this triggering the major educational rethink that I think it warrants.
- netizen-936824 5y agoAren't pastafarians just openly mocking religion?
- CoastalCoder 5y agoI could be remembering wrong, but I thought part of their early schtick was to provide evidence for His Great Noodliness using chains of logic similar to what some Christians used in public debates. Note: I'm not saying that the benefit of Pastafarianism was that it refuted Christianity. Rather, I'm saying that it exposed the weaknesses of some arguments being used to promote Christianity. I think serious Christian apologists would agree that bad arguments for Christianity should be discarded.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI think they are taking the piss, yes, but particularly targetting the special privileges society awards to true believers.