Nick Jones came up with this FSM money stamp. It covers up “In God We Trust” and replaces it with “In Pasta We Trust”. I like it.
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BoingBoing had a post a while ago showing a tiny stamp to strike out the word “God” from paper money:
Which prompted Kim Moser to suggest the following FSM stamp:
Here’s what I want to know: how many people would be interested in a money stamp? We could have them made if there’s enough interest.
The Church is funded entirely by your purchases of FSM merchandise. Thank you for your support.
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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Pastariffic!
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Though isn’t defacing currency illegal?
see also http://www.godoffmoney.com/
This rocks. US money is bland, that’s why they put god on it, so we could deface it.
Countries like Canada, our money is very nice looking, so we don’t put god on it.
I’d pay money for a stamp, but I’m broke (moth flies out of wallet)
If I go around and preach in the name of FSM, can I get one to promote?
I would totally buy a stamp with the great FSM on it. Especially if it was interchangeable
Interchaneable with what?
I like the idea, but I wonder how effective at spreading the word it would be. You stamp the bills, spend them at the shop, the shop’s daily take is deposited in the bank, and the bank promptly shreds the bills to keep defaced tender out of circulation. Just a thought. Still like the idea though.
You should definately mass produce FSM stamps! That would be awesome. But I, too, was wondering if that would be illegal..
But if you make it I’ll buy. :)
I would love a stamp just to put on anything. Not just money. FSM stamps on everything! Haha!
I’m curious how large this Flying Spaghetti Menace is. The Jesus hunt was OK but the guy turned out to be such a pussy that the end was more like putting him out of his misery than ridding the word of a dangerous character. This noodly guy looks like he might be more tough and I’m going to propose him for a future hunt. To do this, I need to estimate what kind of ammunition is best to deal with Him. 308? 50 BMG? Do I need to move up to RPG’s with thermobaric warheads? Your cooperation will be appreciated.
Please don’t try to insult me by claiming your god is invincible. I’ve heard it all before about thousands of Gods that don’t exist anymore.
Please please make stamps! Then your site will have one-stop Christmas shopping for me!
I’d buy one.
only if I can stamp you with it, big boy.
I’d buy one, it’s a great way to advertise without being seen vandalising, and from what I understand, th UK aren’t as fussy about it than the US is…
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=717085
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=426715
In UK the max penalty appears to be £200, but even more ridiculous, in the US you can get 6 months…
if you make a rally small one thta fits in the corner, then that’d be ok i suppose, not defacing as much as ammending to, and if they say that religous views cannot be expressed on money, then they should get wikipedia to change us from a ‘parody’ religion to a real riligion…
hey, americans, make sure you smuggle some propganda into the prison with you…
In Britain we have Charles Darwin on the £10 note. I’d love to see the reaction if someone suggested putting him on US money.
If Where’s George can put stuff on money, so should we. This sounds awesome and I would send in all my green to get stamped.
“I would send in all my green to get stamped.”
No Roderick were not that kind of religion, were proposing that you stamp your money at home. That way you still get to spend it.
JonE, seriously, Darwin is on the 10 pound note? Thats awesome! We generally like to put old dead racists on our money.
Apparently the apple can sometimes fall really really really really really really really far from the tree. We had the right idea around the revolutionary war, but how did you guys shoot light years ahead of us in this respect?
putting Charles Darwin on the british £10 note was one of the best recent (well, a few years ago now) decisions of the british labour government.
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but according to christian dogma, isn’t money intrinsically linked to Mammon, the arch-demon of profit? in fact, didn’t Jesus tell a wealthy man that in order to achieve peace he must give away all of his things?
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so isn’t putting “in god we trust” on legal tender kind of…heretical? you know, i always thought that the Republican party was bankrolled by immortal manifestations of ancient cosmic evil. makes sense, in a way.
The UK has a tradition of scientists on banknotes - we used to have Isaac Newton on the one pound note, back when there were such things as one pound notes!
Bad bad bad move.
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I would endorse blacking out “In God We Trust”, but replacing it with the FSM and the website address is going to cause problems. Defacing US currency is an iffy area, but advertising a website on it is a definite no-no.
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It won’t accomplish anything positive and will only create the image of the CoFSM as vandals.
I agree with you OEJ. Though I wouldn’t mind an FSM stamp to put to other use.
RAmen