Discovery Institute - Celebrating Christmas at the Church of the FSM

Published by Bobby Henderson December 29th, 2006 in Recognition and General FSM news.

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.

155 Responses to “Discovery Institute - Celebrating Christmas at the Church of the FSM”

1. 141 - January 9th, 2007 at - Booty Says:
   
   

   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.

2. 142 - January 9th, 2007 at - Alchemist Says:
   
   

   @ 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?

3. 143 - January 9th, 2007 at - Peter Popoff Says:
   
   

   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?

4. 144 - January 9th, 2007 at - Beastly Rich Says:
   
   

   I shall be very disappointed if you stop there.

5. 145 - January 9th, 2007 at - Alchemist Says:
   
   

   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.

6. 146 - January 9th, 2007 at - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
   
   

   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.

7. 147 - January 9th, 2007 at - Peter Popoff Says:
   
   

   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.
   .
   Ya got me friend? Computer savvy? Heck, I don’t even know what RSS feed, means?
   .
   Yes on the beer though, I liberate beer every chance I get.
   Ramen

8. 148 - January 9th, 2007 at - L'TUAE_42 Says:
   
   

   “Yes on the beer though, I liberate beer every chance I get.”
   We’ve noticed.^_^

9. 149 - January 9th, 2007 at - Captain Mad John Kidd Says:
   
   

   Peter—”Yes on the beer though, I liberate beer every chance I get.”

   I’ll drrrrink to that matey!!!

   RAmen

   CMJK

10. 150 - January 11th, 2007 at - Rabbit Says:
    
    

    Isn’t only liberating beer alchoholist or something? What about all the other poor trapped drinks, we should free them all!

11. 151 - January 25th, 2007 at - Kirill Says:
    
    

    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

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    se toyota finance…

    Fresh news on se toyota finance….

13. 153 - May 31st, 2007 at - Queen Uschi Says:
    
    

    Da delo dazhe ne v goda. Queen Uschi.

14. 154 - September 20th, 2007 at - Ulf Raharjo Says:
    
    

    when you say it’s ove. Ulf Raharjo.

15. 155 - October 21st, 2007 at - Gautam Asaf Says:
    
    

    and then i came out, mommy move me down sout. Gautam Asaf.

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