Low Church Atheism

The heyday of “New Atheism” around 2009 or 2010 featured a strain of millennial humor that has since been consigned, mercifully, to history’s dustbin. I’m referring of course to the “epic bacon” strain of combative atheism, which gave us the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the United Church of Bacon. (The latter boasts the vapid motto: “Bacon is our god because bacon is real.”) Many of us rolled our eyes at this when it started, but we had to wait over a decade for the world to roll its eyes with us.  Read Full Article »