Did you know that the Moon is a spaceship where all of Tolkien’s elves (who are real, by the way) went at the conclusion of the Lord of the Rings?
What’s that? You don’t believe in aliens? Allow me to educate you with a decisive argument:
Typically, any “Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence” (SETI) is looking beyond Earth for evidence that there’s a form of intelligent life of which we’re not yet aware. This in turn involves two questions: 1) Is there intelligent life beyond Earth? and 2) If so, what is the nature of that intelligence? The first answer is, “Yes. Duh.” In polls on the subject, a clear majority of Americans and/or Europeans are definitive on the subject that yes, there is something out there.
Did you read that? Polls! You can’t fucking deny it now, can you? Oh, and for the record, the Bible also describes aliens, who are devils. So to sum up, elves work for Satan, who is also not at all fictional. Also, Mormons are wrong, and the Masonic Lodge is evil.
I find the pervasiveness of belief in crazy, stupid shit throughout the world to be beyond disturbing. I am weary of the crap that goes on in the United States, and of Christianity in particular, but at least Christians here don’t throw a tantrum chock full of rioting, [bombing and terrorism, just because someone drew some heretical cartoons. People are being fired for reprinting these cartoons! They should not have to apologize at all, much less resign.
Fortunately, there are also those who tell it like it is, like Christopher Hitchens, who applaudes the whole concept of mocking religion: “Taboos have been broken, which is what taboos are for. … The babyish rumor-fueled tantrums that erupt all the time, especially in the Islamic world, show yet again that faith belongs to the spoiled and selfish childhood of our species.” Hell yes. Even more succinctly, to quote the venerable noonereally, who is himself quoting PVP lingo: “Cry more, noobs!”
Lastly, we must not forget to mock stupidity unrelated to religion, as well. But at least those guys used dynamite in an attempt to do their jobs, instead of bombing embassies.
“I don’t believe in God, and I think the question is backwards. I don’t believe in Santa Claus either, and the burden of proof should be on those who do.
But if you must: (a) Since the 1600s, phenomena attributed to God have been increasingly explained by natural causes, and now that we are understanding the brain, the last phenomenon reserved for religion, namely the soul, will be explained as well. (b) Postulating God as an explanation for where of life and the universe came from, or how they work, explains nothing, since it just begs the question of where God came from, and how he works. (c) The existence of unnecessary evil, suffering, and tragedy disprove the existence of a beneficent deity. (d) Ethical precepts don’t require a god, as Plato showed more than 2000 years ago, because one has to ask why God chose the precepts he did. If he had no reason, why should we obey them; if he did have a reason, we can invoke those reasons directly.” —Steven Pinker](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/06/cartoon.iran.reut/index.html)