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London UK – In an ‘outgrowing the Giant Spaghetti Monster’ event, put on by the London Vegetarian Society, atheist and author Richard Dawkins spoke on the need to move past the Giant Spaghetti Monster.

“It is time for we atheists to outgrow the Giant Spaghetti Monster.” Dawkins articulated in his fine British accent. “I think it is high time we started responding to what theists actually believe rather than resorting to caricatures, strawmen, and figments of my deluded imagination.”

Dawkins continued. We don’t positively know there is no Giant Spaghetti Monster,” Dawkins said. “Just as we can’t prove that there are no fairies or pixies or elves or hobgoblins or leprechauns or pink unicorns; just as we can’t prove that Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy don’t exist. There’s a billion things you can imagine and nobody can disprove. But, in all likelihood, the Giant Spaghetti Monster doesn’t exist. God, on the other hand, might, and we need to start responding to him.”

At publishing time, the atheist community had pushed back on Dawkins, reminding him that using strawmen was much easier to knock down.