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that's why it's a stupid way to make the point. the image just says "they believe it because a book exists" which is not true.
also it's one thing to not have respect for religion but you gotta respect the hyphen; it's spider-man.
The image doesn't say "they believe it because a book exists."
The image says "they think the existence of the book is proof of its contents."
no it doesn't. because it wouldn't make sense to add spider-man in that case.
Bible believers and quran believers actually do point at their books and claim they are proof of their religion. No spider-man (there, I added the hyphen for you) reader, religious or not, big comic nerd or not, would ever say the comic is proof of spider-man's existence because of course that's ridiculous. So adding spider-man to this meme does make a lot of sense - putting them in contrast, hoping to make people understand how illogical it is to treat certain man made works of fiction so completely differently than others.
You're so close but still missing the point.
The spider-man comic is supposed to be the silly, unbelievable example. It's not supposed to make sense. People don't believe in spider-man just because there's books about him, but they do believe in God/Allah for that reason. But that's a silly reason to believe in anything. That much is obvious with spider-man, as you seem to understand. It's less obvious with people's dieties for some reason.
oh my god, it's a baby's analogy. you yourself are saying people don't do this with this book but do it with that book. so it's by definition a bad example. also, at first the argument was "the meme isn't saying just because the book exists", but now you say "they do believe (...) for that reason".
this is what I mean by embarrassing. people can't help but defend a dumb meme rather than admit it makes a bad point simply because it agrees with them is funnily enough very religious coded imo.
No, the fact that people do it with some books and not others is the whole thing the meme is trying to point out. What's embarrassing here is 1. you needing multiple people to explain that to you and 2. you getting this worked up over a meme.