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The Pasta Theory

Posted on February 5, 2008February 26, 2009 by Bri

Recently (ok, today), I’ve noticed something. Something strange. Something ground breaking. Something…. well, you get the picture. And here it is:

I have found a direct correlation between God vs No God arguments and pasta preference.

Yes folks, I sure have. I know you’re all probably shaking your heads right now, but hear me out, ok?

Here is our typical religious argument:

Random Arguer 1: “I believe that there is no God.”

Random Arguer 2: “You’re so wrong, there is too a God. How dare you insult my religion?”

Now, let’s replace the bold faced statements:

Random Arguer 1: “I believe that bowtie pasta is the best.”

Random Arguer 2: “You’re so wrong, linguine is the best. How dare you insult my taste in pasta?”

Uncanny, isn’t it? But keep listening. It all comes down to this: It is an OPINION. Here’s the truth; you cannot prove or disprove God, just like you cannot prove or disprove that linguine pasta is the best, because it’s a matter of opinion. Let’s look at another correlation:

You are Christian, and your friend is an Atheist. So you take your friend to church every Sunday, you read them passages from the Bible, and you attack them at every chance you can with religious quotes and wisdom. There are two outcomes to this: either your friend decides that he wants to convert to Christianity, or they decide to stay being an Atheist and get extremely annoyed.

Let’s change this to pasta again.

You love linguine, and your friend loves bowtie pasta. So every time you go out, you order them linguine, you talk about it all the time, and you list the ways linguine could enhance their lives. There are two outcomes to this: either your friend decides that they like linguine as well and agrees that is is the best pasta, or they decide that they still like bowtie pasta better and get extremely annoyed.

Here’s the moral of this story. Well, actually there are two.

MORAL 1: Atheists and Religious People: STOP ARGUING OVER THE EXISTENCE TO GOD. Neither one of you is going to come out on top, because it is a matter of opinion. I know you’re all going to be mad at me, but listen; an opinion is something that can not be proved and is a personal belief. A FACT is something that can be proved and verified. Both atheism and religion are OPINIONS. So again, stop arguing. It’s like arguing over what pasta is better.

MORAL 2: There are plenty of things theists and non-theists argue about; the validity and interpretation of the Bible, religious and non religious propaganda, and a variety of issues like gay marriage and abortion. But because the base of their arguments is their personal opinion, it all boils down to: Does God exist or not? And again, that can not be proved or disproved, therefore basing arguments off of it doesn’t make any sense. So stop using religion to back up an objective argument, and stop using the basis of non-religion to back up an objective argument. Just… stop….arguing. It’s going to get us no where.

*BONUS* MORAL 3: Bow Tie Pasta is totally better.

Issues

A Grotesque Monster of Hypocrisy

Posted on January 28, 2008February 26, 2009 by Bri

I love that quote. I would post my seminar response, but it’s not that good. So onto the next topic:

Atheism vs Satanism

There is a common misconception going around that atheists are immoral satan-worshipers. I’m here to clear these up.

First off I’d like to point out that if you don’t believe in God (atheist), then you don’t believe in the devil (Christian) either, so how can an atheist be a satanist? Right. It doesn’t make any logical sense.

Now let’s tackle the morality issue. Tell me, what makes a person immoral? The ten commandments:

ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’

TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’

THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’

FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’

FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’

SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’

SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’

NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’

TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’

Have you never heard of an atheist who didn’t lie, steal, covet, commit adultery, murder, refuse to honor their parents, say “God” in vain, or bear false witness against their neighbor? And since they don’t believe in any gods, the first two he mentioned aren’t relevant. Religion doesn’t determine morality. Sure, religion has a lot of good messages concerning this issue, but it doesn’t directly make someone moral. In fact, I might go as far as say that sometimes non-religious folk can be more moral than theists, because no one is telling them to be moral. They do it because they want to, not because they’re afraid of being damned to eternal sunburns.

Issues

Mooveryishnessiee

Posted on January 19, 2008February 26, 2009 by Bri

(Moo-v-er-ee-ish-ness-ee) (noun) : Bri’s Giant Nose

Anyways. Since MoMo beat me to the punch (which is ironic becuse I had written up a little piece of the seperation of church and state yesterday but hadn’t posted it), I guess I’m the second person to put something up at that topic. But Kudos to MoMo for thinking in the same frame of mind.

“…the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction”

– George Washingon.

Seperation of Church and State. I don’t think it exists anymore. Religion has no place in politics, and yet it is becoming the biggest part. I’ve head in the halls many things relating to this issue. People hate Romney because he’s Mormon and Obama because they think he’s Muslim. (For the record, he isn’t, but does it matter anyways?)And people support Huckabee many times on just the grounds that he is, in fact, a Christian. How are these justifications for presidential candidates?

I, for one, don’t care what religion a candidate is, and no one else should either. But they do. Religion is a personal thing, it has no place in politics, like I mentioned before. The religion of a candidate shouldn’t have an effect, since that’s not the important part of a campaign. The important part is the issues. How are they going to make the country better? How are they going to improve the economy? What are their thoughts on improving foreign policy? But no, what the American public wants to know is how spiritual the candidate is. How is knowing what the religion of your candidate going to improve the country?