"Atheism/science/secularism destroys myth/imagination".

Bullshit.

And I can knock that one down with two words.

Scooby Doo.


It's fiction, and yet what does it deliver as a message with every episode?

The ghost is always an asshole in a mask.

And that's all science/secularism/atheism is saying.
It's always an asshole in a mask.


Ghosts, bigfoot, aliens, Easter Bunny, Santa, God, whatever.

Spooks are bullshit.

Or if they aren't, damned well prove it, don't blindly accept.
Investigate.

Blindly accept, and some asshole in a mask's crooked ambitions win.

And the only thing that would stop you from looking into it, is fear.
Being spooked by the spook.

Scooby and Shaggy always get spooked by the spook.
But do they give up?
Nope, they keep snooping.

And in the end, they pull the mask off the asshole.

Every episode, every time.
You all grew up with this show.
Yet, somehow, someone drove it into some of your heads that some spooks you leave unmasked.

Um, no.

Wrong.

Just wrong.

The Pope is just old man Ratzinger in a silly hat.

Joseph Smith was a crackpot who peered into a hat.

It's all masks, and movie projectors, and dry ice smoke.

And this little animated fable pimping skeptical inquiry was a work of imagination.
And a flighty fanciful one it was.

Death of imagination my ass.

And that's just one goofy little cartoon off the top of my head.

Think of all the detective literature, all the good science fiction, all the satires, etc, etc.

There's no dearth of the imagination in the secular world.

And what a slap in the face insult to say otherwise.

That you or I wouldn't be able to be creative without belief in spooks.

The mind-blowing gall.

I mean, I know Christians think their myth is special, they sort of have to, but taking the next step of saying other myths, especially secular ones are essentially worthless...come on.

And then you get the spinoff of this bullshit, that "other myths", aren't as "time tested", as the Christian myth for rallying/mobilizing/motivating people.

Oh, blow me.

Look at any write in campaign to save a beloved TV show.

That's motivation. What more do you need? The war shit?
Fuck off.

As much drivel is out there, I'll defend secular imagination and creativity any time, anywhere, to my dying breath.

I'd give a kid a Scooby Doo lunchbox before letting them read Leviticus.
That's a no brainer.

And secular culture has to be on the defensive?

Rite me, Raggy.