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Is it a joke?  Yes and no.  I intentionally made the article more funny than it would have been if i was trying to pass it off as something I really believed in.  The philosophy was somewhat serious, but of course I used some exaggeration.  However, I don't want people to walk away thinking "ha ha, so it was a joke afterall, we can forget about this now".  While the actual beliefs about the Kart Gods aren't all that important, the ideas I was trying to convey through satire and parody are serious.  The article was not meant as a slap in the face to religion in general.  It was meant to point out the flaws in the attitude that some people have towards religion.  Seeing people become offended by the article was especially disturbing and shows that some people take religion way too seriously.  Some people seem to get much more offended in religious arguments than in other arguments, maybe because they're insecure, I'm not sure.

Is it a joke?  Yes and no.  I intentionally made the article more funny than it would have been if i was trying to pass it off as something I really believed in.  The philosophy was somewhat serious, but of course I used some exaggeration.  However, I don't want people to walk away thinking "ha ha, so it was a joke afterall, we can forget about this now".  While the actual beliefs about the Kart Gods aren't all that important, the ideas I was trying to convey through satire and parody are serious.  The article was not meant as a slap in the face to religion in general.  It was meant to point out the flaws in the attitude that some people have towards religion.  Seeing people become offended by the article was especially disturbing and shows that some people take religion way too seriously.  Some people seem to get much more offended in religious arguments than in other arguments, maybe because they're insecure, I'm not sure.

As I mentioned in this article, religion is supposed to help guide you through life, not control you and cause bigotry.  Also, the extreme close-mindedness and arrogance of people who refuse to even consider the possibility that their own religion just as silly as the one they're insulting is rather disturbing.  The Kart Gods were just used to demonstrate that point, but it could have been any other religion.  The point is that you shouldn't reject something as 100% wrong until you think about it first, and you shouldn't believe that something is 100% correct just because 1 billion other people believe it.  As I listed earlier in this article, the Kart Religion obviously does have some real advantages over other religions, so having good evidence that a different religion really is the correct one should be an important part of choosing the religion.  And even if you don't have good evidence that the God really exists, is it really so important?  As I said earlier, the God himself is relatively unimportant compared the way that the religion guides you through life.

As I mentioned in this article, religion is supposed to help guide you through life, not control you and cause bigotry.  Also, the extreme close-mindedness and arrogance of people who refuse to even consider the possibility that their own religion just as silly as the one they're insulting is rather disturbing.  The Kart Gods were just used to demonstrate that point, but it could have been any other religion.  The point is that you shouldn't reject something as 100% wrong until you think about it first, and you shouldn't believe that something is 100% correct just because 1 billion other people believe it.  As I listed earlier in this article, the Kart Religion obviously does have some real advantages over other religions, so having good evidence that a different religion really is the correct one should be an important part of choosing the religion.  And even if you don't have good evidence that the God really exists, is it really so important?  As I said earlier, the God himself is relatively unimportant compared to the way that the religion guides you through life.

So, in conclusion, people who were offended by this article (or in Meakings' case people who were laughing hysterically at how delusional they thought I am), get a life.  Maybe if you played some kart your attitude would improve.

So, in conclusion, people who were offended by this article (or in Meakings' case people who were laughing hysterically at how delusional they thought I am), get a life.  Maybe if you played some kart your attitude would improve.