Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a church full of copy cats, bounsing ideas off each other.

My 1NR: Now with Signposting! Point 1: Humor is Subjective. Our hypothetical Christian is flipping through some hard-copy collection of images--maybe he printed out a Google image search?--and sees the famous picture of Adam being touched by His Noodly Appendage. He abruptly stops laughing. This challenges everything he believes in, and much less, it's not funny. It's not funny at all. All of a sudden, his hypothetical Christian friend comes into the room and sees the picture--and bursts into hysterics! "How can you laugh at this picture?" HC#1 asks. "It's just insulting to me." "Come on, man," says HC#2. "Different people find humor in different things. Just because this picture doesn't take what I believe seriously doesn't mean it's not funny. There's probably a scientific study out there on why people find things humorous, but in any event, common knowledge dictates that what I find funny, you might not. You know those two girls in our history class?" "Which? The ones on the far left of the room who crack up at the orange-typewriter joke that no one else gets?" "Yeah! No one else finds that funny. They do!" "But that joke doesn't challenge the core of what they believe in, does it?" "No, but just because someone's making fun of what I believe in doesn't mean I'll automatically get offended. And even if I did, it's important to consider this on a global scale if we think utilitarianistically--which we have to, we're Christian, and the Judeo-Christian ethic is pretty much synonymous with Utilitarianism by now. Christians aren't in the majority of the world, just a large part of it (http://www.adherents.com...), and they're the only ones who'd be offended at this picture. If we assume the same proportions hold, and 70% of the people who see this picture won't be offended by it, this picture has a net positive outcome!" HC#2 takes the stack from HC#1. "Oh, hey," he says, "here's that picture that shows that athiests are the scourge of the devil. I'm showing this to Ragaxus--he'll get a kick out of it." Point 2: FSMism is Not a Religion, nor is it the Truth--and Knows It The reason I bring up the origins of FSM is to illustrate the motive you ask for. This is not a belief system. People do not live their lives according to its "sacred" tenets. It is simply a particularly long-winded joke that doesn't even TRY to reach the truth, laughing toward it or otherwise. Again, it's not the truth of the system we're arguing about--it's whether it's a "copy-cat". "Mockery of God will not grant you heaven and the devil has used the FSM to fool people that this belief is ok and acceptable. You are losing out. The devil gets at people in so many ways." I'd like to say two things here-- 1. There are plenty of people who don't believe there's a heaven, or even a God, in the first place. They've denied the Holy Spirit, which is the one thing he won't forgive. So they're damned anyway--Mark 3:29: "Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will NEVER be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin." (emphasis mine.) So why knock other people's fun while they still have the opportunity to be happy? 2. Can you prove that it was the Devil working in this instance? Can you prove he's not working through the church itself, fostering intolerance and ignorance, leader believers to Hell with their own feet? You are human, and thus cannot see the influence of Lucifer. Don't presume it anywhere. So--you say to me, "Man up." I say unto you, "Lighten up."