Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News & Views has posted an article on the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s treatment of the Christmas holiday.
During the holiday season, many Americans take time to seriously and respectfully reflect on Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. Not so for one website, the “Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster” (FSM), a pro-evolution satire against intelligent design. They exhibit no interest in treating Christian holidays with respect. To celebrate the season, they are selling Christmas cards which show a dead Christian fish symbol. Other Christmas Cards portray Michelangelo’s well-known “Creation of Adam” painting on the Sistene Chapel, but the FSM cards have God replaced by the “Flying Spaghetti Monster.†Another graphic promoted on the page shows a nativity scene where Jesus is replaced by the “Flying Spaghetti Monster.” I can appreciate humor, but it’s also clear that the FSM images are intended to mock traditional religion:
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I disagree with most of what he’s saying - we are no more mocking Christian beliefs than Christians are mocking ours - but it’s still an interesting read.
Read the whole article HERE.
Aye Aye Cap’n! (I’ve been waiting to say that for days ;) )
I agree, the times are most confusing, and it takes me ages to try and catch up on what I have missed, and I still think I have missed out on things if they have gone off the “recent comments” bit.
I used to post quite a bit on the “BadMothersClub” site which was a lot easier to navigate, slightly different premis, you could just start a new thread if you wanted, but it was very easy to work out where you left off and catch up.
@ Captain & Booty - well said. I tried opening different tabs (and keep hoping the RSS feeds will update themselves). In the end I gave up - completely baffled me. Now I do the same as you Booty, recent comments (also open the links in Latest Posts that I’m posting on). Even so.
Captain, was it you that mentioned something about a website crawler? Do you know if Firefox has any plugins for this?
Hi Alchemist.
As soon as you and I take over the world… er’ I mean are duly stationed as leaders of our countries. We will fix this problem with the website! Agreed?
I shall be very disappointed if you stop there.
RAmen to that. Can we liberate beer first?
I wish I was a bit more computer savvy Peter, I thought that RSS feeds updated themselves. Unless I’ve made a balls up, which is quite possible :)
I’m sure I’ve read about a plug in for firefox that allows sites that support it to be searched, can’t find it on mozilla though, I’ll have a look in the developers bit in a bit.
Dunno, I haven’t looked in to it. Though I am Firefox too as it happens.
I only use IE for my credit card account because it doesn’t fire fox. Dang Nabbit.
You know the basic idea, you provide a web-site and it crawls all the links looking for your key words…
I’m gonna hunt around on the ‘ol web….
I’ll be back later.
Alchemist Jan 9th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
RAmen to that. Can we liberate beer first?
I wish I was a bit more computer savvy Peter, I thought that RSS feeds updated themselves.
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Ya got me friend? Computer savvy? Heck, I don’t even know what RSS feed, means?
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Yes on the beer though, I liberate beer every chance I get.
Ramen
“Yes on the beer though, I liberate beer every chance I get.”
We’ve noticed.^_^
Peter—”Yes on the beer though, I liberate beer every chance I get.”
I’ll drrrrink to that matey!!!
RAmen
CMJK
Isn’t only liberating beer alchoholist or something? What about all the other poor trapped drinks, we should free them all!
If their complaining about us using “their” fish i would like to bring up how Eusebius,at the council of Nicea, takes the immage of Pan the greek/roman god of the flock and the harvest and uses his image as the image of satan. Now how would they feel if we took the “virgin” mary and used her as the ultimate evil being?
RAmen
Da delo dazhe ne v goda. Queen Uschi.
when you say it’s ove. Ulf Raharjo.
and then i came out, mommy move me down sout. Gautam Asaf.