Comments on: Religious Scholors to Debate Flying Spaghetti Monster https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Kevin https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550180 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:15:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550180 From an article on CNN

Gavin Van Horn promises in his abstract to explore how, “in a carnivalesque fashion, the Flying Spaghetti Monster elevates the low (the bodily, the material, the inorganic) to bring down the high (the sacred, the religiously dogmatic, the culturally authoritative).”

From my perspective FSM uses the high (a well developed sense of satire) to skewer the low (pompous, self righteous, unsupportable dogmatism)

but then I happily align myself with the Patafarians

]]> By: Blake Stacey https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550179 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:15:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550179 Yeah, it’s great and all, but I found what the theology students were planning to say (at least as reported by the AP) to be a little, well, batty.

]]> By: Russell https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550178 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:13:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550178 Who says a real god would not show himself through a seeming act of satire? How can we limit the mechanisms of a deity? If an angel can speak to Mohamed in a cave, or if gold plates can be translated by Joseph Smith using a seeing stone, then why can’t a graduate student inspired to satire be given True Revelation? That seems quite in the FSM’s character!

]]> By: Laelaps https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550177 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:46:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/16/religious-scholors-to-debate-f/#comment-550177 Curses, you beat me to it. A friend of mine sent that to me just a few minutes ago; I’ll be interested to see what is said.

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