[marktwain]

From another FR thread, I posted:

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“Today Cthulhu has become an atheist/agnostic way of giving the middle finger to religious belief and moral absolutes.”

I think I nailed it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3656323/posts?page=52#52

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I never heard of this Cthuhlu until today. There's a quote from Wikipedia about the creator of this being a militant irreligious man who thought religion is dangerous as well as false. We saw today how dangerous a lack of religion can be.

[Simon Green]

“Today Cthulhu has become an atheist/agnostic way of giving the middle finger to religious belief and moral absolutes.”

How exactly are the 99.999% of those who enjoy Lovecrsft's fiction without shooting someone doing that?