Quote Originally Posted by coqauvin View Post
Yes, but we can describe anything solely by a literal description and miss the subtext of what they're saying. It's not strictly speaking the content of this video that perturbs me - it's the spirit that goes into making it, the spirit that enjoys it and the perpetuation of that mindset that aggravates me.
I dunno, it just seems to me that the ideas they are lampooning in this video are so utterly absurd and so ripe for mockery--"if our cells are really full of deoxyribonucleic acid, how come we don't all dissolve?"--that it's hard to say with any confidence that the video reveals any broadly anti-religious spirit on the part of the makers, or that someone who enjoys it has any broadly anti-religious spirit. I dunno, I just don't see it. I get what you're saying, but in this case, I think the target of the derision is so eminently deserving of derision that there's just no grounds for claiming that there's an underlying anti-religious subtext. The stuff in the video is dumb enough that people with no beef against religion in general could still very well be inclined to mock it.