(The Blaze)—Does “Scooby-Doo” teach children the core philosophical tenets of atheism?
I recently saw an atheist claim that “Scooby-Doo” was created to teach children about rationality and skepticism because every episode begins with a supernatural event — like a haunting ghost and unexplained phenomena — and ends with a “natural explanation” (i.e., it’s just a person in a mask).
I saw this claim on Reddit:
I just realized scooby-doo was made to teach kids skepticism and rationality
Suddenly it makes sense why my ultra religious mother ended up forbidding me from watching it as a kid. Last night, it suddenly occurred to me based on what I could vaguely recall about the show before I was banned from it that every episode was about something supernatural happening and then getting proven to have a non-supernatural cause. I looked it up and it turns out that was exactly the case.
This argument got me thinking and raised two important questions:
- Is “Scooby-Doo” naturalist propaganda for children?
- How strongly does the plot of a generic “Scooby-Doo” episode bolster the argument for naturalism?
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