No it has everything to do with you missing the point or not understanding the metaphors.
The whole point of Bobbie's storytelling was to dumb down and visually demonstrate certain logic. Even some liberal theologians think it is pretty good in doing just that and getting people to explore serious philosophy.
The unicorn is pink because there is nothing more absurd than insisting on an invisible thing to have a color. Pink is also a nice shrilly fluffy color. The FSM is made of spaghetti for the same absurdity and because its followers like spaghetti. It is a metaphor for adding unnecessary traits to a deity for the sole reason of I like them or I like it more that way.
People didn't chose to follow malevolent gods or converted to such religions they follow the nice ones. The reasoning starts at some creator thingy. Traits are added that in the end make it a caring, omni-everything, human centric, loving, forgiving deity. There is also nothing above it.
The rest of the letter and the gospel is a lot of absurd evidence with funny but absurd conclusions and ending up with the 8 really nice I'd rather you do nots and a very tasty deity. Because the FSM adds other absurd traits while dropping some common ones like perfection which in many ways make it even more easily defendable.
The whole point of it is to be absurd otherwise it has no demonstrating effect and would just be seen as another "serious" religion by those who the letter initially tried to address. If you complain about it being absurd, you really are missing the point of the message. It is not supposed to promote a reasonable religion, it is supposed to demonstrate what weird stuff one can come up with using what goes in some settings (like Christian fundamentalism) for reason and logic.
It is the same as trying to teach a Math student what happens if one ignores all the rules like * before + and surrounding brackets and what not.
I can do non quick fix answer too, but hinting on the solution generally has more lasting effects if it yields any, than laying everything out there already chewed-for. It is not like there are so many possibilites for why an invisible pink unicorn should be pink and invisible.
The whole point of Bobbie's storytelling was to dumb down and visually demonstrate certain logic. Even some liberal theologians think it is pretty good in doing just that and getting people to explore serious philosophy.
The unicorn is pink because there is nothing more absurd than insisting on an invisible thing to have a color. Pink is also a nice shrilly fluffy color. The FSM is made of spaghetti for the same absurdity and because its followers like spaghetti. It is a metaphor for adding unnecessary traits to a deity for the sole reason of I like them or I like it more that way.
People didn't chose to follow malevolent gods or converted to such religions they follow the nice ones. The reasoning starts at some creator thingy. Traits are added that in the end make it a caring, omni-everything, human centric, loving, forgiving deity. There is also nothing above it.
The rest of the letter and the gospel is a lot of absurd evidence with funny but absurd conclusions and ending up with the 8 really nice I'd rather you do nots and a very tasty deity. Because the FSM adds other absurd traits while dropping some common ones like perfection which in many ways make it even more easily defendable.
The whole point of it is to be absurd otherwise it has no demonstrating effect and would just be seen as another "serious" religion by those who the letter initially tried to address. If you complain about it being absurd, you really are missing the point of the message. It is not supposed to promote a reasonable religion, it is supposed to demonstrate what weird stuff one can come up with using what goes in some settings (like Christian fundamentalism) for reason and logic.
It is the same as trying to teach a Math student what happens if one ignores all the rules like * before + and surrounding brackets and what not.
I can do non quick fix answer too, but hinting on the solution generally has more lasting effects if it yields any, than laying everything out there already chewed-for. It is not like there are so many possibilites for why an invisible pink unicorn should be pink and invisible.
