Is Believing in God Like Believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? [Spirituality & Religion]

The FSM move is merely a sarcastic, unfounded, feeble attempt at poking fun of Christians. Even the creator of this nonsense, Henderson, knows this.

The difference between belief in God and belief in Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is this:

Belief in God is rational, and supported by good reasons, and belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster is irrational and not supported by any good reasons. Bobby Henderson commits a logical fallacy, when he says that there are no good reasons for belief in God. Despite his claim to the contrary, Christianity is rationally defensible. There are difficult questions that we must ask ourselves as Christians, but the fact that there are difficult questions, is not grounds for dismissing Christianity. As believers, our pursuit of answers to our own deep-seated spiritual questions, draws us further into the intellectual richness of the Christian faith.

His premise is false. It is not the case that “there is no evidence for the existence of the Judeo-Christian God.” Mr. Henderson may not [i]accept[/i] the evidence for the existence of the Judeo-Christian God, but he offers nothing by way of demonstrating that the classical and contemporary arguments for God’s existence are false. Even if he adequately refuted several arguments given by theists for the belief in God, he would still not be justified in saying that “there is NO evidence for the existence of God.”

Many arguments have been given for the existence of God. For example, there are cosmological arguments (arguments for a first cause), teleological arguments (arguments for a Grand Designer), moral arguments (arguments for a Moral Lawgiver), and others. Anyone who is serious about the question of God must deal with these arguments charitably and thoroughly before dogmatically rejecting belief in God. To reject the existence of God “because I can’t think of any good reasons to believe in God” is not in keeping with the most influential thinkers in Western civilization. Almost all major philosophers and thinkers have dealt with the existence of God, and most of them accepted some form of belief in a God. A large number of philosophers have argued for their belief in the existence of God.

The argument is not that belief in God is true BECAUSE so many people believe that God exists. Rather, it is simply an irrefutable fact that many brilliant minds have pondered the God question and come to the conclusion that He does, in fact, exist. This fact, while it doesn’t prove that God exists, should prompt us to deal with the question of God’s existence with seriousness and intellectual honesty.