I would like to restart this group again and request to be made host.

[AtheistCrusader]

131. If it's a scam, why did it give me EXACTLY what I wanted for a mere $20?

For twenty bucks I over-rode your institutionalized religious privilege, and officiated my brother's wedding. My only other options were:

1. Lie my way into a 'real' faith, so-called.
2. Become a circuit court judge.

FSM gave me exactly what I wanted, the power to step over the dead corpse of your religious privilege. All legal and above board.

Explain your church's beliefs in strippers and beer volcanos.

There will be one of three results.

1) You will demonstrate those are your sincerely held beliefs.

2) You don't believe them in the slightest and we will then move on to the topic of hypocrisy.

3) You will demonstrate it is in fact a sham designed to mock other religions.

As I told you last time, faith is not a requirement to be a member in good standing of FSM. I TOLD Henderson I don't believe, and he knows, and he told me faith is EXPLICITLY not a requirement to join.

Can't be a hypocrite if I never pretended to believe. I could have wormed my way into any 'real', so-called, religion with enough lies and effort, but I did it honestly. I don't believe in a heaven full of strippers and beer volcanoes. I have no use for strippers (but I don't pass judgment of any kind on their profession) and I do not like beer. Beer is disgusting. But while we're on the subject of parody religions, brace yourself, I believe George R. R. Martin's 'God of Tits and Wine' might be gaining some traction, and I at least have a use for wine.

Scientology started out as an explicit scam with more than a little mockery of other faiths, but now has members that actually profess to believe. It is not my place to say RoccoR5955 doesn't actually believe with any authority beyond expressing my personal opinion. I don't believe him, but I don't believe you either.

Now, you can make up whatever bullshit requirements you want about how I should either believe or abandon it, or nonsense about how I should defend its tenets for membership, but the teapot always wins. I'm not required to do any of that shit, and I have not offered you one scrap of hypocrisy to crow over. FSM is a fulcrum, as I said, or, a battering ram, or really, a weapon, in a deadly serious fight to keep religion out of government endeavors. But that doesn't also preclude the possibility of RoccoR5955 earnestly offering well-wishes in the lingo of the flying spaghetti monster.

Have a nice day.