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Surely you need a certificate printed on high quality parchment paper with an embossed black and silver foil seal. Like becoming ordained (a spiritual expert) in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They sell a great ordination pack for a reasonable price, free shipping, and you don't need to invest years in tiresome studies.

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Flying Spaghetti Monster? Are you saying there isn't one?

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Not I! I watch the newsletter for the latest on His manifestations.

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It’s almost like a religion exploded into fragments of myth, fantasy, and other fictions, each totally unrelated to a specific theology. I actually see it that way since most of these areas of “expertise” have the concept of supernatural as their basis. So in that case, I suppose one could get a degree in theology and have expertise in all manner of subjects.

Sometimes it’s amusing, like watching the ghost hunters using a magnetometer app on a smartphone and identifying a change of flux as a ghost and not an electric power source. But then I realize that these people vote and spread intellectual excrement over social media and it isn’t funny anymore.

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