My wife made me aware of this the other night ...
From Wikipeida:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism". The religion was founded in 2005 by Oregon State University physics graduate Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.Read the rest of his argument here, or visit the official Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster website here.
The first public exposure of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CoFSM) and its eponymous deity can be dated to January 2005, when Bobby Henderson sent an open letter regarding the FSM to the Kansas Board of Education. The letter was sent prior to the Kansas evolution hearings as an argument against the teaching of intelligent design in biology classes. Henderson stated that both his theory and intelligent design had equal validity; sayingThe central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, which created the entire universe "after drinking heavily." All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians' faith—a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster "is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage."
- "I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence."
The Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD.
The religious text of the Pastafarian religion is called the Loose Canon.
In place of the Ten Commandments, it contains the Eight I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts.
5 comments:
I think we all secretly wish we had been touched by a noodly appendage.
Mmmmm.....pasta. I fully embrace a religion I can also relish.
I'm kind of amazed that there are intelligent people willing to devote so much time to something like this. When I see that intelligent design stuff, it just makes me tired. How do you argue with zealots with a belief that supersedes logic?
Tired, really tired.
I love the version of the Jesus fish that they've made that has the FSM. Man, Jay, I'm surprised you're just now hearing about this.
"Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD"? So Hell is Memphis?
Yes, yes it is. For those and lots of other reasons.
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