It shoehorns the use of giggle-inducing curse words into an explanation of religious views. Someone who has only ever been exposed to Beavis and Butthead cartons, and has never heard about “agnosticism,” might be able to learn from this type of explanation.
It presents a quick and easy, bullet-point spectrum of belief, which many people may not know exists.
An anecdotal data point: I linked to this quote when talking to a friend who was using me to vent their anti-theist ideas since they didn’t have many other outlets for such thoughts. They laughed, and were able to properly categorize their beliefs (weak atheist) for the first time, rather than thinking themselves some kind of heretic (evil atheist).
That said, I didn’t expect it to be this popular, either.
Could someone explain why this has been voted up so much? I didn’t find it particularly funny, or to have any non-trivial insight.
It shoehorns the use of giggle-inducing curse words into an explanation of religious views. Someone who has only ever been exposed to Beavis and Butthead cartons, and has never heard about “agnosticism,” might be able to learn from this type of explanation.
It presents a quick and easy, bullet-point spectrum of belief, which many people may not know exists.
An anecdotal data point: I linked to this quote when talking to a friend who was using me to vent their anti-theist ideas since they didn’t have many other outlets for such thoughts. They laughed, and were able to properly categorize their beliefs (weak atheist) for the first time, rather than thinking themselves some kind of heretic (evil atheist).
That said, I didn’t expect it to be this popular, either.