Ross & The Spaghetti Monster

Ross Douthat made this wise observation in a post today that addresses The Teapot Analogy and what he calls "its modern descendant," the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

... just as the Christian who has never entertained doubts about his faith probably hasn't thought hard enough about the matter, the atheist who perceives the Christian God and the flying spaghetti monster as equally ridiculous hypotheses really needs to get out more often.