For Your Hate Mail

Hey Bobby,

First of all, the idea behind your site is amusing, lighthearted, and it makes its point. I get that. I spent a good couple minutes chuckling about it when I first heard about the FSM and its “Church”. So when I got the link to your site, I was interested enough to go and peruse it, expecting a more elaborate version of the organization ultimately aimed at pointing out how silly the idea of teaching ID in schools is.(That’s what I’ve gotten from it so far – forgive me if I have the wrong idea)

I was a little put-off to see how elaborate it had in fact become – in my humble opinion, the “gospel”’s kinda pushing it – but I was more concerned at your Hate Mail section. I understand that you didn’t write those letters, and you’re well within your rights, through your disclaimer, to post them for the entertainment of the rest of us.

But I have to protest the mass grouping of all the e-mails you get. Putting those with relatively reasonable voices (for example, Pach) right along with those who basically posted rants of really un-Christian (in the literal sense of the word, not just those who claim the name) hate discredits their intelligent opinion and makes it seem like you don’t listen to anyone who disagrees with you, even if they’re reasonable and level-headed. And in my humble opinion, putting a small heading of “concerned criticism” doesn’t cut it if you’re still putting all the letters together.

Look, I know it’s slightly nitpicky, and I fully expect to find this grouped right in there with all the other “hate” letters, but I hope you might prove to really be listening after all, and in your renovation of the “Hate Mail” page, might consider actually putting a seperate section for “Concerned Criticism” for those who don’t actually hate you, just want their voice to be heard too. I don’t hate you, and I enjoyed your website. I’d be sad to find that this was considered hate mail, too.

All the best, Anna

-note from bobby – for the record, I don’t consider this hate-mail. This falls into the “concerned criticism” category, I think.

21 Responses to “For Your Hate Mail”
  1. 1 - The Zero Boss - Aug 12th, 2006

    I consider “concerned criticism” of FSM to be inherently amusing. It’s like engaging in a long, rational dialectic about the Tooth Fairy, or having a heated disagreement about whether Chewbacca or Worf would triumph in a fight.

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  2. 2 - Lee Bruns - Aug 12th, 2006

    Chewbacca would kick Worfs ass. No contest.

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  3. 3 - Jacob - Aug 12th, 2006

    On the one hand I feel sorry for you Anna for what Bobby has done, but then I realise that you were kinda asking for it.

    Good one Bobby.

    Praise FSM!

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  4. 4 - Dino - Aug 13th, 2006

    Please stop pretending that it’s perfectly normal to worship an invisible dude in the sky and that those who don’t are the weirdos…

    K-thnx.

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  5. 5 - Midget in Pirate Regalia - Aug 13th, 2006

    Yeah, but the Tick would take ‘em both at once.

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  6. 6 - henryaj - Aug 13th, 2006

    NO WAI

    WORF FTW

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  7. 7 - UKgoat - Aug 14th, 2006

    Well i think some may have critical concerns about bad people and non-christian-believing good people both getting lumped into hell…or is that different because of faith?

    Please answer.

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  8. 8 - max - Aug 14th, 2006

    If you let Worf have one of those goofy Klingon sword things, he might have a chance. Otherwise, definitely, Chewbacca.

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  9. 9 - Ahr-Ehl - Aug 14th, 2006

    “a heated disagreement about whether Chewbacca or Worf would triumph in a fight.”

    Duh. Everyone beats Worf. It’s like ..a Requirement…

    Oh .. what were we talking about? Something Surreal, i imagine ..

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  10. 10 - Trawler the Parrot - Aug 15th, 2006

    Chewbacca hands down. i mean hes like 9 feet tall!

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  11. 11 - Space Pirate-Cowboy-Robot-Ninja - Aug 16th, 2006

    Cookie Monster would take them all. He’s seriously got jaws that could eat a brick house.

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  12. 12 - Peter - Aug 16th, 2006

    that’s a tough one, but i have to go with chewbacca.

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  13. 13 - EJ - Aug 17th, 2006

    Has to be Worf. Come on, man, no question. Chewwy was awesome, but I don’t think he killed a single storm trooper in the entire trilogy. And that’s just weak.

    Meh. She seems to be complaining that all the hate mails are lumped together. Fair enough, but man does it take a lot of work to maintain a web site and blogging area. I don’t blame ‘em for just dumping into one big “pile o’ letters”.

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  14. 14 - Kristine - Aug 18th, 2006

    Jajajaja!!! Thanks a lot!!! All of you!!! Really all in this page is so funny!!!!

    Thank you for make me laugh!!!!

    =)

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  15. 15 - Singe - Aug 22nd, 2006

    hahaha “Concerned Criticism”

    Dear Dr. Breen,

    Why have the commmmmbiiinnee seen fit to suppress our religous belief cycle?

    Signed, a Concerned citizen.

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  16. 16 - Yaaaaaar! - Aug 23rd, 2006

    Ash of Evil Dead fame would lay EVERYONE on the board out, no sweat. The man is a shotgun ninja.
    It’s been obvious to me for quite some time that he is genuinely touched by The Great One’s noodly appendage. Possibly by two such appendages.

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  17. 17 - Rohan - Aug 30th, 2006

    Okay perhaps you didn’t SEE Chewie kill anyone. But is there really a contest between a Wookiee Bowcaster and a bat’leth?

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  18. 18 - Stogoe - Sep 1st, 2006

    The bowcaster is pretty lame. The bat’leth, not quite as lame. Plus, Chewie was in the Star Wars prequels, whereas Worf was on DS9 (the best Trek, hands down).

    In a fight, though, Chewie would tear Worf’s arms off. And maybe the forehead ridges, too.

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  19. 19 - EJ - Sep 2nd, 2006

    Meh. I’ll keep my money on Worf. The fact that no one else seems to think so just drives up the odds and my eventual payoff.

    I mean, c’mon. The only “worthwhile” thing Chewie ever did was lug C3PO around – a feat for which I hate him to this day. Oh, yeah, and he went into Jabba’s palace in handcuffs so that he could later wreak havoc when…. hold on, when did he ever get around to wreaking havoc? Must have missed that part.

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  20. 20 - Ponder-er - Sep 24th, 2006

    Chuck Norris would win.

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  21. 21 - Garrick McElroy - Jul 6th, 2009

    Hate-mail and Concerned Criticism. The ones with reasonable voices are the latter.

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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American




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