Here we have a thought provoking quote,

The real lesson to be learned from the case of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is that it shows how completely out of touch our popular culture is with the great tradition of natural theology. One might as well be speaking a foreign language. That people could think that belief in God is anything like the groundless belief in a fantasy monster shows how utterly ignorant they are of the works of Anselm, Aquinas, Leibniz, Paley, Sorley, and a host of others, past and present. [. . .]

So, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not mainstream and therefore their parody has no merit. You have to be at a whole other level to even begin to discuss the existence of God.

So essentially, only theologians can discuss Theology! How convenient.

I've personally read Aquinas. It was total rubbish, to be blunt, and nothing near a great theology piece. It was assumption on top of assumption. Then it used those "supported" assumptions to make more. It was making baseless assumptions as fast as possible.

Theology is like having a school of blind men discussing the merits of color on their psyche. There is simply no basis for the arguments they may present. There is no reason to take it seriously. They simply have private thoughts on the matter and then discuss them.

There is your great "tradition of natural theology."