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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
This guy has meatballs of truly holy proportions! Good job, that shipmate!
I applaud your spirit, preacher man, but please, can we improve the quality of the signs? I know I’m being too picky.
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Get those unbelievers!
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OEJ
I think I was one of His Noodly Appendages touching that guy in the movie. They might be invisible, but…
He has truly been touched by His Noodly Greatness. Inspiring.
Wow F-ing wow! This guy rawks. But yea, definitely improve the sign.
And while I’m on, everyone should know about the pirate supply store….
http://www.826valencia.org/store/
You can purchase many of your pirate needs there, including eye patches, lard, peg legs, and stripey socks. Excellent place for Xmas presents for all your pirate friends.
Regarding your letter to the Kansas school board, Kansas never passed any law requiring or even allowing the teaching of Intelligent Design in public school. The new outlined curriculum instead opened the door to follow the facts of the origin of life to wherever they may lead - which is just good science, isn’t it? The debate had nothing to do with intelligent design, creationism, or evolution, despite how the media reported it or whatever articles they read or whoever raised their voice on the issue. I read the curriculum and I attended the debates. However, the new school board is in, and they’re overturning the curriculum anyway. So there’s nothing to get in a tizzy about. There are other states with more public schools who have accepted ID or creationism into their curriculum than schools in Kansas. For example, despite the Dover decision in Pennsylvania, the state school board does accept challenges to evolution. The Dover decision was only for the Dover school district.
Yeah, the signs sucked… but my phamphlets were awesome.
I made the signs at the last minute, actually there were four signs, but they didn’t pick up too well on camera, they read “Believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster” “God is real….and made of Pasta” “Gravity is a lie, support intelligent falling” and “Fight Global warming….dress as a Pirate” Unfortunately they didn’t pick up too well on camera. Meh.
P.S. Thanks for the link. May his noodly apendage bless you and yours!
Your name suits you well, good sir. I salute you! You have done the Great Noodly One proud.
RAmen
I would like to point out that I am sure he was over come with His noodly greatness…but he did make a single mistake. He claimed that the FSM was made out of pasta, when we all know that pasta was merely created in his image.
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I know I’m nitpicking here…
Hey guys, just like to let you all know, if you don’t already, J has got The Letter off.
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Should be interesting to see the response we get.
Also check out his “Buddhism is stupid and Evil” video. It’s great.
Nice but don’t diss other religions people might get mad
Nice costome though
I’m with you spitfire… the point of this whole thing was never to slander anyone’s beliefs, and I’m sure we are all intelligent enough to take the high road.
Question: what was the random explosion in the background about?
@The Cut Lass: Thanks for the link to the pirate store! I’ll be plundering there as a religious pilgrimage this weekend! Then I’ll go and have a sacred spaghetti dinner! Aaarrrggg!
This guy is awesome!
Spot on, gill, I was wondering about the building on fire in the backgorund myself.
I’m intelligent enough to take the high road, I just choose not to. It’s a completely arrogant and asshole thing to say that those who don’t “Take the high road” and respect retarded and rediculous beliefs, that have been responsible for countless deaths through the ages, are not intelligent.
Bite me.
-Love Cap’n Awesome.
The explosion was a sign that the FSM was angry at the many at that university who were believers in false gods, such as Jesus and Allah.
RAmen, Cap’n, your words of wisdom are greatly appreciated.
May we be forever touched by His noodly appendage!
wow…u guys truly are morons…what a productive use of ur allotted time…
“what a productive use of ur allotted time…”
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Ahhh, like posting a stupid comment on a website when you know everyone will laugh at your horrible spelling and unbridled arrogance.
That man has truly been touched by His Noodly Appendage… as for ‘mr frodo’ …
“u can get ur sadly consorvitive rere back too the land of bad speeling from witch u came”
That is all I have to say to you.
Cap ‘n you mistake what I was saying. I wasn’t claiming that anyone was unintelligent, just we can use our intelligence without attacking those who have done no harm. I know several Christians who keep their beliefs to themselves, who also think the whole idea of teaching ID in science class is mentally deficient. If you argue just as dogmatically as they do, and insult their beliefs without provocation, then you are no better than they are. If they come here and start shit…well they’re fair game…
BTC: The very existence of a competing belief system is considered an insult and an attack on their beliefs by significant numbers of believers. So on that basis, using your logic, this site shouldn’t exist as many believers with other belief systems would consider this site an attack on their beliefs. As witnessed by the many inane posts by such on this section of the site. Part of the problem is the very legitimacy that your moderate good quiet christians give the fundies by not standing up and being counted as being more representative of their belief system.
As the saying goes;
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
Author: Edmund Burke
Wait wait wait. Are you saying that I’m unintelligent or not. Because you say that that isn’t what you are saying in your first statement, and then go on to say that intelligent designers are mentally deficient, however I am no better then they are if I attack their beliefs without “provocation”
I call total and utter bullshit on all of that. Beliefs deserve to be attacked when they are stupid. Would you say that it is ok to let someone have Nazi beliefs or racist beliefs, as long as they aren’t fitting your definition of what is ‘harming’ a society? Of course not. Do you feel that it is important for us to respect adults who believe in Santa Claus? Of course not.
What you get with Christians and Muslims, (and to a slightly lesser extent, Buddhists, Hindus and Jews) is a combination of both of those. The idea that it automatically merits my respect, or even merits my non-mockery of it, simply for being a belief, is a rediculous and frankly dangerous idea. As dangerous as some beliefs are, it is equally dangerous to believe that they should be left alone simply because someone holds to them.
Or do you have another reason for respecting theistic belief?
Brian is a theist (stated continuously in his posts) Cap’n Awesome. Still trying to work out what he is doing at our church.
RAmen for your preaching.
“I’m sure we are all intelligent enough”
Also quite fond of using the “we” as to imply speaking on behalf of us pirates.
The only reason I can see for a theist to be here is to look for intelligent conversation, not going to get that from mental fundies.
More to the point, great costume Cap’n, did you manage to show anyone the error of their ways, or did they all just cling to their old religion?
@ John Phillips: Good quote, I think it is something everyone should keep in mind, however, are you going to hold every member of a specific group accountable for those that they have no control over? Also, I don’t think what the fundamentalists are doing is inherently evil, just really ignorant. And I don’t think my Christian friends stand by while these fundamentalists do they’re work. There is probably a good damn reason that in Alberta intelligent design is not taught in schools, but believe me we have our share of fundamentalists, and I live in the bible belt of that particular province. You also put words in my mouth, you guys have every right to express you’re views on this site without being attacked, I just fail to see why you have to attack the things you do not agree with. Yes, I am a theist, but have I said anything against being an athiest? Hell no! I could care less about something like that. Good people are found regardless of creed, colour, political affiliation. I don’t belong to a church, I don’t preach my beliefs like truth, I don’t try to convert people, and I have a serious problem with organized religion because of people like the ones who post hate on here. As far as my government is concerned I am an atheist…
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@ Cap’n: In my first post I said “I’m sure we are all intelligent enough to take the high road.” No where in that des it say that you or anyone else isn’t intelligent. It could imply that… but only if you were looking for it to do that. It was never intended to be taken like that. You made an excellent choice about choosing not to take the high road. According to Sartre, people are human becomings, not human beings. You have to constantly choose who you are and take responsibility for those actions. I think he was right about that, and that is exactly what you did. I disagree with what you have to say, but I don’t think you’re stupid just because I don’t agree with your point of view.
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@ Rabbit and Nikkiee- I wasn’t aware that you had to be an atheist to belong or support the cause of the FSM. The we pronoun was directed at everyone on here because of all of the threads I have read have contained much intelligent discussion and wit. The only people clearly lacking intelligence, and I can only judge that by they’re posts, are the fundamentalists that curse while extolling the virtue of they’re tolerant religion, because God loves you. So unless I miss my mark we, the people viewing this website, are intelligent. If I offended you by the use of we I could use I, but that would sound a little smug…
-the point of this whole thing was never to slander anyone’s beliefs-Well that is a very nice idea,but I not sure you’ve been paying attention.The point of this whole site and the FSM himself is really to make fun of the idea of ID, and the notion that it should be allowed in schools to be taught as though it were fact.-Which,yes,is sort of like slandering that belife.
I was paying attention Penne…
Some are questioning why I, as a theist, would be on this site.
I don’t think this site is slandering the religion at all, just the silly notion that a belief should be taught as a science. Personally I don’t want my beliefs measured and weighed… Besides which you could not, at the present moment, prove or disprove anything… hence why they’re called beliefs, and hence why this concept works so beautifully. I may have missed the point so I copied from the F.A.Q. on this site. These are Bobby Henderson’s words, not mine.
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Q: Are you an atheist / heathen / what?
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A: I don’t have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. Teach Creationism in school, fine, but don’t teach it in a science classroom. And don’t change the definition of science so that you can teach these things. That’s retarded.
Supernatural explanations are by definition not science, so why would you teach them in a science classroom?
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Religion, itself, isn’t bad. But it isn’t necessarily good, either. There are plenty of good Christians (and Muslims, and Buddhists, and Hindus), and plenty of bad ones.
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Dogma is bad for everyone.
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And that is simply what I have been trying to argue as well.
Religion itself isn’t bad,no, but there are a lot of out-dated, and by todays standards,offencive rules and ideas in many of them, that the people on this site(me too) just don’t like . I myself have only been comming her a few weeks and already I am tired of seeing the crap these guys have to take for expressing their fustration and personal belifes and beefs with said rules and ideas. I can certainly understand if they are a little touchy when a newbie comes here and talks in a manner that makes them feel as if you are demeaning them.Now,being from Canada myself,and knowing some people from out west I know that this is just how most of you talk and you probably don’t even reilise it.But most people who come here are from different parts of the world and they know that not everybody talks the same way,even if we all speak english,so they seem to(usally) say things as plainly as possibly so no one gets the wrong idea. Except J ,some days I have no clue what that guy is talking about.
@ BrianTheCanuck
I don’t remember saying I was atheist, but you can have much better conversations with people who don’t try to ’save your soul’ because you’re not the right kind of theist, that’s why I said you couldn’t get an intelligent conversation from a fundie.
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster *bows politely* The Chinese are so special.
@ Penne: I take your point and I realize that these guys who are backing this have to put up with many ignorant people clinging to outdated ideas. I think these ideas need to be updated as well, and it was never my intnet to demean anyone, except those who come and curse, and claim to be something they are clearly not.
@ Rabbit- I never said you were an athiest… I was addressing you and Nikkiee at once, “Brian is a theist (stated continuously in his posts) Cap’n Awesome. Still trying to work out what he is doing at our church.”… and your absolutely right! You can have a much better conversation, even if it is about a touchy subject such as religion, as long as they are willing to listen to and consider your point of view. Otherwise the conversation is dogmatic. But upon rereading my first post I realize that I forgot to include that part. I apologize.
give that matey the best stripper factorie!
Why are we even arguing? We’re all on the same side here(except for Chad(or whatever his name was) if anyone remembers him and amen.com). We should be out there recruiting more people to our cause.
We argue because we like to argue, and the arguement is what recruits more to our cause. The point is to argue, or at least talk about religion in general. It is good to have faith in religion - whichever religion it may be. Just don’t allow that religion to control your life. Don’t allow that religion to dictate what is fact because religion is just theory anyway.
That looks in awful lot like the University of Northern Colorado campus. Is that correct?
I can get along with all you fine people as long as you don’t tell me that the Easter Bunny is not real. I know you want to believe in him.
Excellent Vid; Cap’n Awesome! Good job!
And I’m not sure what that poster meant, that said we are only here it argue?
Speaking for myself of course, I’m here to worship pasta and booze!
As they both mean much to me and are held close to my heart.
I will however defend my beliefs against the Jesus Police, and against the likes
of “BrianTheCanuck” and his type who seem to only want to belittle and argue with other beliefs, that don’t jive with them, while flip flopping on their own beliefs for the sake of arguing. I just don’t get that at all?
At any rate, Great Vid! Keep up the good work!
Peace and,
RAmen
A very awesome preaching! May his Noodly Appendage Bless You All!
Ah, I see. The explosion makes perfect sense now. Good Video!
(Not to randomly insert myself into the argument sprouting up here, but I don’t see any issue with a follower of something else being able to support His Holyness the FSM as well. Seeing as how that’s exactly what I’ve been doing since like….September? I think?)
@Branded Cow-good post, I agree with you on that.
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And now for the rest of the story…
You know, I didn’t belittle anyone’s beliefs- I could care less what you believe in. Really. No foolin’. And I don’t think I’m smarter, better, stronger, faster, or anything else than anyone else, but if you thought that maybe you have some self-image problems. So I’m not sure what you had to defend from me, but one thing is clear I’m not wanted here, and my very presence causes discomfort among the ranks. I may suggest to you Swabbies that a number of the supporters are exactly the ones who you may be referring to when you talk about only wanting to belittle and argue with other’s beliefs. I could point out several threads where the main concern of some postings has been to make the beliefs of any organized religion look stupid. And I think that is missing the point of the FSM entirely. It’s not about which religion is right, it isn’t blasphemous, and it sure isn’t to poke fun at what groups of other people believe, it is a remarkable piece of satire that illustrates just how stupid the idea of blending faith and science is. And I don’t waffle. Yes, I can argue several sides of any one topic, and yes I have beliefs that don’t seem to mesh well together, but they are mine and I sure don’t have to explain them to anyone. I’m sick of having to explain myself when someone who is a little sensitive takes things the wrong way, and I’m sick of associating with fundamentalists. Like it or not there are a number of supporters of FSM that are fundamentalists. Upon suggesting that science perhaps doesn’t have all the answers, one is likely to get heckled and jeered, in much the same way the Christian fundamentalists talk down upon you.
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A science that can’t be challenged or questioned isn’t much of a science- it’s Dogma plain and simple. This idea started out great, but has turned into a group of children making fun of each other, of course that doesn’t refer to everyone…ah, Hell take it which ever way you like, I no longer care about avoiding toes. The fundamentalists berate you for insulting their God, you laugh at them for worshipping an invisible man…and that circle never ends. I have read precious few posts regarding the original intnet of either getting ID dropped from schools or getting FSM added.
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For those of you with whom I have had enlightening conversations and debates: Thank you, it truly was a pleasure and I had hoped such things would continue, however it was not to be. This post isn’t aimed at you, take no offence; I respected what you had to say and have considered it much. I hope you all know who you are, because I won’t be back to list names. For those that I never had the pleasure of encountering: I apologize if I offended you and you didn’t fit into the above.
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And for those that just wanted me to go away know this: I’m not going away mad, I’m just going away. Feel free to take potshots at my spelling, gramar, punctuation, family, or whatever else pleases you because I will not be back to defend myself. I’ll never darken this site again.
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Don’t worry Swabbie the bad man is gone, and you’ll never have to defend yourslef from me ever again.
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Bobby you have had your fun, and made an often misunderstood point, but a once great concept has fallen into the toilet- time to flush and start again.
Wow Brian, I certianly didn’t mean for you to take it like that! I for one hope you do come back,the fact is most of us here do enjoy a good arguement and almost all of the people that come here only like to swear and spew nonsensical cuss words at us,while you had lots of good points to make and did at least get conversations started.Your really just getting to know us but if you must leave then I do hope you find a site more to your liking eleswere.-Penne
All i had to do was show my friend 30 seconds of this and she’s already willing to convert. well, as soon as i lend her my gospel. still, she dug the pirate clothes.
To Zamboni Schwartz: Diffrent University. I live in Washington State.
Also, I hate to whore myself out (that is a lie) but this isn’t the only video I’ve made. You guys should click on my name and visit my YouTube channel, then subscribe. I’ll also be making a follow up video to this, where I do present the signatures to the dean.
i want to say something like “may the force be with u” but i dont want to be sued. Good work…btw what was the total count of conversions lol
Uh, what’s a “Spigitti Monster”?
This truly takes great meatballs, as the first entry said. You, my friend, are an inspiration to all Pastafarians. So what if the signs sucked? You went out there and preached for our Holy Lord. Great job, Cap’n Awesome. May you be Touched By His Noodly Appendage throughout your life.
-Cap’n Awesome-Back off my turff! I cliamed this joint first so there’ll be no whore’n for you! Now stop trying to noodle-in on my gig! :
I have some suggestions. Your heart is in the right place but you need to work on the details. The sign is fine it does not have to be fancy, it got the point across, and I am not going to nit pick on timing issues. I have a lot of experience as a member of the MSU chapter. There is power in numbers, I know you at least had yourself and the cameraman, but bringing a couple of people into it makes you look less like the town crazy. A huge problem I have seen people have is the difference between talking and harassing. I know that sounds harass but let me explain. Talk to those that wish to and don’t push it on others. I push pamphlets pretty hard because they can ignore it after they leave. I understand that I am ranting but I just see a lot of common mistakes.
Ummmm…ok, Colleen, the point was to look like a town crazy. Are you expecting me to set up a both and politely speak the advantages of our noodly lord and savior?
You truly have been touched by his noodly appendage. You make us all proud.
RAmen!
Awwww, come on Brian, we just like a good argument is all. Don’t go away. I actually agree with most of what you said, I’ve said it myself. I don’t have any problem with people having religion,I don’t care what religion you are. I don’t provoke people (usualy)
The things I hate are when the fundies or born agains get up in my face or try to shove thier stuff on me or insult me first or think their better than everyone else, then I insult them to my hearts content. I also hate religion trying to pose as science, which is why I came here in the first place.That being said, please don’t deprive yourself of this wonderful site. You were very polite and intelligent. A good conversationalist.
RAmen.
Cap’n Awesome is the man who introduced me to The Flying Spaghetti Monster. So I was inspired to make this video:
If that didn’t work I E-mailed Bobby the link for the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHHgY7rRu5o
RAmen
BTC: The point I was making with the quote was that while I hear both christians and muslims decry the fundies in their ranks as unrepresentative of their religion they rarely actively try to counter them, even on an intellectual level. Or at least, not with with the same passion as the fundies espouse their particular brand of hate. Some of this is to do with the tolerance, at least in the West, to differing ideas, but there must come a point where we must stand up and say that we can no longer tolerate the intolerable as our very tolerance is being used against us. I believe that there is a quote by a US christian fundamentalist where he uses our tolerance as an apparent winning debating point in an argument with opponents as I have heard many radical muslims in the UK say that they will use our tolerance and values as a means to defeats us, implying that we are too weak to fight for what we really want as a society and so radical islam will win more by default rather than any need for actual battle. There is an element of truth in this as many in the West simply want to get on with their lives without bother and are likely to see the danger too late. Much as happened with Germany in the thirties where the memories of the horrors of WWI was still uppermost in many peoples thoughts and none wanted to believe that it could happen again even though all the signs where there.
Unfortunately, this often means that the fundies voice is the one heard the loudest as is sadly is often the case nowadays and especially the one heard loudest and clearest by the disaffected and simple minded and which they latch on to. Witness the number of societies’ malcontents and disenfranchised who have been recruited, such as the so called shoe bomber. We see a certain similarity with the type of activists recruited by many racist groups such as the BNP in the UK. Of course, in many ways, it is not the brainwashed activist we need to counter so much as the brain washers who really want political power more than anything and who take advantage of and recruit the disaffected. Often by giving them a sense of belonging or community while also giving them an apparent sense of certainty in our ever changing world. In fact, much like religion in general has done over the millennia.
Thus by default, their actions are often allowed to be seen as the norm for their belief system. Take the example of the bombing of abortion clinics or the murder of those who work at such. Now I know plenty of moderate catholics who disagree with abortion and campaign politically against it and who don’t believe that the aforementioned actions of the fundies are in the least representative of christian teaching. But rarely do I hear them actively denouncing these actions, or when I do it is nearly always accompanied with excuses along the lines of ‘I don’t agree but with their actions I can understand their anger’ or similar statements. Similarly, with regards to muslims, I have heard many decry suicide bombings when asked to comment, but also nearly always with the proviso that they can understand what drove them to it. Usually with some excuse about societal alienation or foreign policy decisions by our governments. Therefore, if the moderate believers won’t take the fundies to task it is left to the rest of us. Unfortunately, for the moderate believers, the only real way to do that is to point out what we see as the nonsensical basis of all their belief systems not being based on evidence but only faith and so any actions by the fundies have no basis of any kind. After all, if the two faiths mentioned are really as peaceful at their core as the moderates espouse it shouldn’t be too hard for them to counter the fundies. Though when you consider the contradictions at the very core of their holy books it is perhaps understandable that anyone can twist them to any end thus the only answer we non believers can see is to point out how utterly ridiculous and irrational is the basis of their beliefs and thus, so are many of the actions carried out in their religion’s name. Of course I have used the extremes in the above post but that often only equates to the degree of immeduate damage as I consider all fundies dangerous to our world, whatever their shade.
P.S. Brian, I agree with you, for if we can’t discuss things rationally, even the irrational :) then we are no better than fundies ourselves.
Yeah, at least 80% (not basing this on research, just guestimating by my own opinion) of large religious groups are moderates, and the majority of them are really nice, it’s just the radicals that get heard more often cause they have the loudest voices.
Let the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless his piraty clad preachers and all those thst convert. May his noodly appendage bless you all.
Here’s the thing: the LDS Church and the Jehova’s Witnesses have the largest organized armies of missionaries in the world. Convert the Heads of each religion to the Gospel of the FSM, and you will have the largest religion in the world… which is what He intended.
RAmen
im sure this man meant well but he is clearly breaking the first “I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts”
Lol alex. well i worship spagetti, but the meatballs have got to go
Go man go! Keep spreading his noodly goodness! RAmen.
@John Phillips Nov 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 am
RAmen John.. RAmen
Is this University of Vermont????
OK, my show was a rerun so I added another chapter,enjoy.
Not the University of Vermont. Try again!
wow,cap’n you made the # 69 th post!-be proud.
outstanding!
@Bartholomew:
Actually, the Kansas School Board’s decision to redefine science had everything to do with the teaching of ID. They replaced the good science of Methodological Naturalism (that is, finding naturalistic explanations for observed phenomena) with something that was not science at all (as allowing supernatural explanations for observed phenomena falls outside the bounds of science). Moreover, it is common knowledge that the Kansas School Board was influenced by the Discovery Institute with regards to its science standards, and its changes to the curriculum were specifically designed to challenge evolutionary theory.
And as for the Dover case, while it may not have any immediate impact beyond that particular school district, it *has* established a legal precedent, which will presumably make things much easier for other challenges to the teaching of ID as “science.”
But of course, we Pastafarians *want* alternative theories discussed in the classroom. We’re just wondering why the Discovery Institute and its fellows still haven’t moved to embrace our eminently-logical and empirically-verifiable arguments. We can offer so much to bolster their claims, yet they continue to ignore us in favor of their zombified (and most assuredly NOT al dente) Savior. A pity.
listen, Christianity is what this country was founded on, if you dont like it go live with the Budists or something
Strange, I don’t remember your god being specifically mentioned in the US Constitution. In fact if I recall correctly, there are a number of quotes by the founding fathers that promote a secular society or outright denounce religion. I’ll have to track those down sometime.
Here we go: http://monotheism.us/
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Interesting how our early leaders were outright against religious influence in the government.
@jesus freak
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america is not a christian nation you dumbass. typical for you being a jesus freak to say that. if it were, then our nation would suck.
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what do you got against buddhists (you spelled it wrong you dumbass, and in this case that is not a typo). what, has your loving religion tought you to hate other religions.
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how much time do you spend with jesus christ? maybe you should ask him out.
Well yeah, considering the state it’s helped the country get into, the main thing being deviding it so badly.
so true
-’Christianity is what this country was founded on’-No,no,no, the europeans that came to North America because they wanted religious freedom from fundie nut jobs like you who enjoyed burning people at the stake if they tried to express their own ‘different’ belifes.
Jesus Freak writes:
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“listen, Christianity is what this country was founded on, if you dont like it go live with the Budists or something”
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Please spare me. The US was founded on commerce. The first explorers/colonists in the US were financial ventures. Some came later for religious freedom (Freedom of their own religion, mind you. They had no problem repressing the religions of others.), however, most immigrants came to the US for economic reasons.
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Take five minutes and learn some facts before you try and spread that shit here.
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OEJ, Ship’s Navigator
Jesus Freak writes:
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“listen, Christianity is what this country was founded on, if you dont like it go live with the Budists or something”
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Please spare me. The US was founded on commerce. The first explorers/colonists in the US were financial ventures. Some came later for religious freedom (Freedom of their own religion, mind you. They had no problem repressing the religions of others.), however, most immigrants came to the US for economic reasons.
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Take five minutes and learn some facts before you try and spread that shit here.
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OEJ, Ship’s Navigator.
@Penne
Actually, you have that backwards. Some of the original settlers like the Pilgrims were Protestant fundamentalists that would make most modern fundies cream their pants in envy.
Here is a good site that tells of some of the MANY religions that came to the new world,but the first religions, of course, belonged to the Native Americans who were here long before any of them. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html
Here is a good site that tells of some of the MANY religions that came to the new world,but the first religions, of course, belonged to the Native Americans who were here long before any of them. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html .
-Just Guess,they also wanted to get away from persecution by the establishments like the Church of England.And I think it was the Puritianswho were fundies and the Quakers were fairly peaceful,dance’n round,eat’n oatmeal and such. http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/16071783/religion.htm
We at the first fundamentalist Pastafarian Church of the North Woods will be taking to the street in full Pirate gear as Cap’t Awsome has done. He is one mighty an stronh and will be blessed many fold by His noodly appendages.
Johnny Corvette
I thought I recognized that building. Was that infront of the Focus on the Family Education Center in Colorado Springs? If so that guys got a lot of guts! They are real Fundi nutcases in there.
-chapter 6 online
I’m going to wait till I get a grouup together to go spreading the word, or get to college, I’m kinda nervous about going alone out here.
I have all my pamphlets ready for a roll out on campus tomorrow. I had decided to wait til the end of semester (term) exams, as I personally know how distracting the FSM site/cause can be. Also nearly everyone turns up to celebrate.
It has been a frustrating wait, but I felt it was the right thing to do so as to attract the most attention and conversions. I intend to save the following, (after this one) roll out on campus for orientation week next year.
RAmen
Thumb tacks! Must remember to buy more thumb tacks in the morn.
RAmen
Thumbtacks? Why?
LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Anna
To post (fix..um attach) the pamphlets to boards ect. It did not matter anyway, they went so fast I didn’t have a chance to actually pin them up anywhere.
@Bill
Hello Bill. Did you lose something?
@Bill
The ability to think for yourself, maybe?
“they went so fast I didn’t have a chance to actually pin them up anywhere.”
“I feel good…. doodle oodle oodle ooo, I feel fine….”
RAmen
Yall need straight jackets and padded walls. Maybe you should also join the military. Go over and ask the terrorists if they beleve (spelled wrong, I know) in the so called FSM.
Bill
I have never heard of terrorists who believe in the FSM (they wouldn’t be aloud to terrorise anyone) but there are plenty of terrorist groups who believe in god. For example your beloved president who decided that Iraq needed to be bombed because god told him to do it. The civillians who were bombed by the US were no doubt terrified by this unjustified attack and so it was TERRORISM thats right the US+UK army are terrorists.
You are one. So is the “fsm”
Bill how the fuck does the FSM terrify anyone unless you happened to be scared of a sense of humour, something that truly is terrifying is your lack of intelligence.
@Bill
We will pray to the magnificent and magnanimous Flying Spaghetti Monster, asking that your soul be saved and, at the very least, for Him to touch you with His Noodles and inspire you to think. No matter what you have been told, thinking doesn’t hurt. Honest!
RAmen
YOU are a true Pastafarian, my friend!
you have been chosen by His Noodle Apendage.
I admire your courage to confront all that false-believers to try to make the world a better place.
I’m sure there’s a Pastafarian in every country in the world, and I invite other country people who post here to write in which country they are.
My respect to you, Cap’n Awesome. From Mexico.
@ Bill
I’m a veteran of Naval service. I did my time and got out. I’m done with it.
RAmen
Rodger the cabin boy– now, now, let’s not bash the troops themselves…I know a few people in the army/ training for the army and they’re all a hell of a lot braver then I could ever be. And as for Bill…..hm. Yeah. Not much to say there….he’s not a very creative hatemailer, for one thing.
@Gill
Sure the troops might be nice guys but it doesn’t change the fact that the Iraq war is illegal and an act of terrorism.
‘they’re all a hell of a lot braver then I could ever be.’
The only ones i can see who have acted with any courage are the ones who refused to take part in the war despite the shit they were going to go through because of it. They still attacked civillians deliberately to cause terror and so i stand by calling them terrorists.Please don’t take this personally.
Terrorism runs in the blood of america, since WWII they’ve been doing it to themselve and others, and I blame it on the evangelicals, at least the modern stuff like Iraq…
PS that means I don’t blame it on any of you americans, any FSM american is a good american
America seems to be trying to copy what we Brits spent several centuries doing to the rest of the world. At least we were more competant at it. We can even still deal with a lot of our former collonies, though I wouldn’t blame any of them for telling us to F Off. The US seems to be copying what we did and not bothering to check out the very large number of mistakes we made, like intoducing the growing of poppies to Afghanistan, yep that was the Brits. We ran most of the world opium trade.
Of cause we now seem to have a government that is doing pretty much everything that the USA wants us to do. I really hope at the next election the people of this country will have finally seem through them all. Though I doubt it. I’ve always said that a hung parliament is the best idea, there are plenty of lamp posts around.
Something else that never gets taught is the fact that the pre war US and British goverments were pro fascist, and only fought them because they presented a threat to their own financial interrests what they teach children about GB and the US fighting for democracy and freedom is a load of bollocks. If they had really cared about any of that they would have helped the Spanish republic.
They would have had a lot of problems with trying to side with the fascists in this country. I’m not sure about the government beign pro-fascist, but a very large proportion of the popultation wasn’t. Mosley and his followers were not popular in this country, they regularly came under attack.
During the First World War the US was playing both sides and supplying both sides until the sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans. They were very close to siding with the Germans. Not surprising when you realise how large a proportion of the US population is of German extraction.
Anyway the whole point of my previous post is that old adage, “those that don’t study history are doomed to repeat it and those that don’t study history properly are just doomed.”
I know that the fash were not popular with the majority of people in this country(eg. battle of cable street where the BUF had the crap kicked out of it) but the rich were often openly pro fascist and they were the ones who hold most of the power.
I’m not actually disagreeing on that point. I’m just saying that they would have had a real problem trying to push it through. They may well have got themselves the revolution that they would have deserved.
I had never been interested in religion until my son,an Atheist,sent me a link to the FSM site. I fell in love with it immediately! I really have to say that these sites really do make sense if you look deeper into the meaning of them. I know it’s hilarious about the FSM, but it’s not all joking. I think I learned more about religion, or should I say non-religion through these sites. By the way, I love the preacher, I would become a follower! The best part is reading the comments,you can tell who the intelligent ones are….RAmen!
I am a new convert. All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster! I can not believe I spent so much of my life trying to wrap my mind around false gods when his noodly appendages were there wrapping themselves around me the whole time. I have always been a fan of Pirates- the sucess of the POC movies and the pirate trend in fashion are testimonies of his great will! May more wonderful enlightened people like this fine fellow continue to spread the world of the Pasta and show others the light. RAmen.
Rodger the cabin boy- No offense taken, but I’m afraid I can’t agree with you on this one. I’m not a supporter of the war or anything, don’t get me wrong, but even so. It’s the administration that needs some revamping.