badgenome on 30 April 2012
| IIIIITHE1IIIII said: You can thank the internet for that |
I think so, yeah. Popular culture has become increasingly irreverent - obnoxiously so, I find, even as an agonistic with atheist leanings - and the internet has certainly been a big part of that. Juvenile memes like Zombie Jesus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are just naturally more appealing to young people's self centered nature and desire to rebel and mock than a philosophy which emphasizes temperance and self denial. So it's completely unnecessary to use force to keep parents from "indoctrinating" their kids in any free society, let alone our modern society where anti-religious messages abound and the cultural pressure is to not be a believer.
