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The Spaghetti Monster, an invisible pink unicorn and a teapot walk into a bar …

Posted by Mathew | 28 May 08

In case you’re not aware, the title of this post alludes to those fanciful arguments of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the Invisible Pink Unicorn and the Orbiting Teapot which are used by some anti-theists to posit that theists ultimately have no truth for their beliefs (the argument being that anyone can say what they like if it can’t be proved empirically hence undermining theistic beliefs which are assumed to simply be acts of fancy). All three illustrations are essentially the same and are really just re-hashes of each other. All very well and good; they are constructs to try and refute blind faith. And I support, in general terms, the refuting of blind faith.

And yet those who know I’m a Christian would immediately jump up and down and then further assert that I’m being inconsistent because I’m objected to notions of blind-faith. Isn’t that what you have? I hear them cry? Anti-theists can get real snotty when a Christian asserts that their faith is not blind. And in response, out comes one of the three afore-mentioned counterarguments.

I would have thought such anti-theists would have more sophisticated arguments by now. Take the Spaghetti Monster (which, incidentally, was created to combat the proposal to teach Intelligent Design in public schools in the States): we know that the FSM was created by Bobby Henderson - a mere man (though commercially savvy. The FSM is a nice little money spinner for him, I’m sure). But here’s the irony: Bobby creates the FSM; but who created Bobby who created the FSM? The thing is, we know that the FSM was created (along with the Orbiting Teapot and the Invisible Pink Unicorn) by man. That is fact. What the anti-theist then tries to draw on is the assumption that God was likewise created by man.

Hmmm. Known fact versus assumption. I’m sorry, what was the argument again?

Christianity is historically rich. It is historically documented. The accuracy of the Bible as we know it today compared to when it was originally written is not disputed. There were witnesses aplenty in the days of Jesus and in the decades after Jesus’ death and resurrection. You have multitudes upon multitudes of people testifying the same thing, that He rose from the dead. And then you have each individual believer’s own witness and testimony of changes and/or confirmations (big or small) in their own lives of the Christian God. You also have the well ordered laws of the universe in which we live.

And the Christian is then told he has ‘blind faith’?

Pass the Parmesan cheese, please.

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