Well, I coulndn’t pass this up. According to a MSNBC report:
leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will
be on the intellectual menu. They’ll be talking about a satirical
pseudo-deity called the Flying
Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs
but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion.”
I for one think that it is time that the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets
the credit that he deserves!
Sadly, the Pastafarianism web site seems to have gone the way of the
pirate and is not currently operating, but I have included links in
case it is revived.
For those of you unsure of what Pastafariansim is,
it is described as the worlds fastest carbohydrate based
religion. Created generally to just make fun of a lot of the
arguments between science, religion and school boards, it suggests a
number of things varying from the fact that the world was created by
the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and that global warming is directly
related to the decrease in pirates world wide (there is a graph which
is quite compelling!). There is a bunch more, but it all gets
a bit fuzzy… I think some of it involves a midget and a
volcano… Sorry, but I really don’t remember….
For more information read “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”
