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*** I agree that it's pretty demeaning to atheists too, but I don't think atheists had it worse. The worst atheists got in this episode was being portrayed as having silly arguments for their beliefs, theists on the other hand were painted as uncontrollably violent psychopaths that needed to burn/lynch everything that opposed their worldview and are so sheeplike that a few seconds of preaching from a theist can flame them into a riot and a few seconds of preaching from an atheist can turn them back in to civilized people. It's hard to argue that atheists had it worse when the episode actively tried to [[Godwin's Law|conflate theists with Nazis]].

** Brian being shunned for his atheism was a bit funny as a [[Take That]] at religious intolerance (although the intent was probably to establish Brian as a [[Sympathetic Sue]]); as was Meg being portrayed as a typical zealous but misguided Christian teen (too bad the [[The Fundamentalist]] stereotype is clearly how ''[[Family Guy]]'''s writers view all Christians). Initially, the episode's overall premise seemed decent, but I lost hope right around the "Worse than Hitler!" bit. Gah, lame. The peak of the episode's awfulness, though, was when Brian tried to explain why Meg's stab at religion was misguided and atheism is more logical. Sweet baby Jebus, worst argument for atheism I've ever heard. A loving God would've created Meg beautiful, and that disproves His existence? Not only did Brian objectify Meg by not for a moment entertaining the thought that her character could be more important than and compensate for her ugliness, but how is it God's fault that Meg is fat? And blaming God for her genetics, too? Fuck, this Christian troper could've come up with a way better argument for atheism. Also, as Grimace noted, the subplot with Stewie meeting the cast from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' was easily funnier than anything else in the episode. I especially liked Picard's lines. If only they'd scrapped the shitty main plot and stuck with that.

** Another awful part of Brian's ending sentiment is that he says "Your mom looks like Lois. Do you think a benevolent God would make you look like Peter instead?" Even though 1) this isn't enough to convert the pavement you're standing on to a different religion, and second, Meg looks a lot more like Lois than Peter anyway. The only real physical similarity between Peter and Meg is Meg's hair color and need for glasses. They basically debunked and dismantled an entire town's religious belief system by playing into a teenage girl's [[Hollywood Homely|informed ugly]] compared to her mother's [[Informed Attractiveness]].

* Peter accidentally killing Quagmire's cat. Not only does he try to shave a cat, [[Kick the Dog|which is pretty mean to begin with]], (which Joe and Cleveland are on board with) he keeps trying long after he's killed it and caused blood to splatter all over the place in an [[Overly Long Gag]] that doubles as a gross-out moment, and a real uncomfortable one for cat-lovers (Myself included). Then at the end of the episode, Quagmire is offering a reward for information about what happened to his cat, and Peter tells him he killed the cat ''and takes the money''. That was what ultimately got me to stop watching the show.