PZ Myers On Easter And Drywall
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I find that PZ Myers at Pharyngula generates a mixed bag of reactions from me. On one hand, I find his thoughts on evolution pretty solid and interesting. On the other hand, I find his thoughts on religion pretty childish and annoying: War on Easter!
PZ is an atheist to the core. He never fails to find opportunites to ridicule religion — any religion, anywhere — and point out how atheism is superior in every way. (I’m paraphrasing, of course.) Atheism doesn’t naturally annoy me, but religious zealotry does, and I consider atheism just as much of a belief system as any other religion. So when PZ ticks off sarcastic bullet points enumerating Easter’s pagan roots as if it was damning evidence that God doesn’t exist, it annoys me.
Likewise, when PZ unqualifyingly calls church-goers “natural-born suckers” (Drywall Jesus), it annoys me. I agree that there are a large number of religious people that don’t really “think” about religion, and there are a large number of greedy people that take advantage of that, but it’s certainly not everyone.
As for the Drywall Jesus: The older I get, the more I’ve come to think that creativity and spirituality are somehow connected, so it could be that PZ’s brain’s inability to assemble some squiggly lines on a piece of drywall into an artistic rendering of Jesus on the cross indicates a fundamental lack of the imagination required to perceive anything mystical, which is kind of sad when you think about it.
PZ should just stick to the evolution thing.
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