Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism

11 years ago

Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism

I'm not sure how it happened. One day you're just going along, living your life as normal, and the next you're frothing at the mouth in rage over a Cartoon Network original movie because it violated the very premise of the franchise! Somewhere along the line, I woke up one morning with some very strong opinions about Scooby-Doo. [...]

Which is why the existence of the supernatural just doesn't work within the framework of Scooby-Doo. It wouldn't work even if it were done in such a way that they were discovering the truth that real monsters actually existed against a disbelieving public, which is a premise that's been done really well elsewhere. There's an underlying logic to the world of Scooby-Doo that just boils down to Reason vs. Superstition, and in that battle, superstition can never win.

Previously, previously.

Tags: conspiracies, religion, tv

3 Responses:

1. Karellen says:

   11 years ago at 2:39 pm

   See also Tim Minchin's Storm

   “Life is full of mystery, yeah
   But there are answers out there
   And they won’t be found
   By people sitting around
   Looking serious
   And saying isn’t life mysterious?
   Let’s sit here and hope
   Let’s call up the fucking Pope
   Let’s go watch Oprah
   Interview Deepak Chopra

   If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo.
   That show was so cool
   because every time there’s a church with a ghoul
   Or a ghost in a school
   They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
   The fucking janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide.
   Throughout history
   Every mystery
   Ever solved has turned out to be
   Not Magic.

2. DFB says:

   11 years ago at 5:04 pm

   And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling secularists!

   • Chris Davies says:

     11 years ago at 9:14 pm

     Ah. The Southern Baptist creed.