Excellent satire of the criticisms of religion and Intelligent Design … unless you guys actually think the creation of the FSM and its subsequent religion is a valid critique of religion and Intelligent Design in the form of satire or actual truth for that matter. In that case, try studying and understanding your “opponents†first before attacking. Or maybe this “religion†of the FSM is just a good case of showing that people will believe almost anything (assuming that your church members ACTUALLY believe the FSM to be true). Yet, I very highly doubt that people are QUITE that stupid. Given enough time, they should be eliminated by natural selection anyway.
However, both ways I do enjoy and appreciate the artistic work and creativity you have put into the FSM and its subsequent church. It, as well as the hate mail you receive, is truly hilarious.
It’s a good thing that artistic method isn’t restrained by the scientific method. The religion of the FSM is evidence that art is not restrained by logic.
As an aside, since art is allowed to be taught in school in the form of an art class, the religion of the FSM should be allowed in school as well. Drop me a line if you need help creating a case (I wish I were a lawyer).
Similarly, religion or philosophy would also be considered art if it did not attempt to validly explain the existence of good and evil, reason, and other enigmas of the “human condition.†Art attempts to depict; religion, science, and philosophy attempt to explain in a valid manner.
Nevertheless, I can see how the religion of the FSM could attempt to explore the very concept of validity and its relation to truth. However, in this case, it should also attempt to be more valid itself and satirically examine or disprove science as well in order to be more encompassing and relative in addressing validity, in my humble opinion.
Or the creation of FSM and its religion may be just a load of quasi-artistic BS, in accordance with all gods written in history who were included within and were a part of the universe and describable as natural objects. re: ra (sun-god), poseidon (god of the sea), fsm (flying chunk of spaghetti and meatballs) “may his appendages be honoredâ€
Regardless of the psychology or validity behind the FSM, thank you for the humor, and good luck in continuing to intelligently or not so intelligently (whichever the case may be) evolve the FSM and its religion.
May your God given or unguided evolutionary given ability for creativity and the FSM’s noodly appendage guide you in your never ending search for that natural-selection-created concept of Truth.
CJYman http://cjyman.blogspot.com
I leave with you these three quotes:
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
–C. S. Lewis
“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents – the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts – i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy – are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.”
–C. S. Lewis
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.â€
–Albert Einstein
I have to disagree w/ every other reply to this email that i read. Each one that i read was written by a person who either didn’t understand the email, or simply ignored its contents and made a joke of it. I, however, read this email and find it to be very articulate and comprehensible. Even if the points are a little mixed up, can you really blame the author of the email? Your “religion” is wrong on so many levels that its very difficult to address them all in a manner that makes sense, since your religion itself doesn’t even.
In your defense, i would like to address all of the people who have emailed you with threats of a firey hell and eternal damnation. It is not my belief that my God has created all of you just to destroy you, or worse, to allow you to suffer eternally.
My prayers are with you as you are clearly unable to accept God’s ULTIMATE truth at this point in your lives. My prayer is not that you would convert to the commonly known “Christian Religion,” but that instead you would come to know my Jesus as He is, not get wrapped up in the “religion” but truly embrace His love, acceptance and peace.
No judgment comes from me, only a hope for an understanding and a true peace in each of your lives…. even if you are unable to see at this time the void that exists in your hearts and lives.
also– the person that wrote this email didn’t use albert einstein as a means of proving Christianity, OBVIOUSLY. And to think that the author of the email thought that einstien was a Christian would also be a mistake. The author of the email more than likely knew that einstien wasn’t a Christian, yet used a quote of his to heighten the validity of his argument. If even an brilliant man who is an atheist recognizes that something exists outside of “nature” or whatever you attribute this “reality” to, how much more powerful is the mans argument?
All of the comments dismissing the man’s use of the quotes and disregaurding them without first discovering what they mean are wastes of posts. It makes no sense to discredit something based only soley upon an unjustified opinion.
Yes, another fundie! Welcome, Madeline, beware of venganza’s fundie bashers, and prepare your best sunday wit!
RAmen to you Pirates!
Thanks, Madeline.
It all makes sense to me now.
Ramen
Madeline,
I want to get to know this jesus dude, “as he was”
Will he like have lunch with me or maybe…
Do you got a number I can call?
About this site…
Between the posts that quote the Bible and those which center on philosophy this is quite impressive. And some of the satire shows extremely creative endeavor on the part of many posters.
Christians must remembers that they will be scorned and scoffed at and that many who hear the Gospel will never accept it. As a former skeptic, I at least was curious to the point of honeslty investigating the claims of the Bible. Through examining history, archaeology, science and prophecy. I was able to examine the evidence and ultimately decide to follow Christ. The problem with skeptics for the most part is that its easier to doubt than to investigate thoroughly before claiming that something isn’t true.
The greatest ‘sin’.. the sin that condemns us, is the sin of UNBELIEF.
Mace,
You’re a nit.
There is no evidence not of any kind that Christ was/is the son of God.
So don’t get all sciency on us. It’s just embarassing.
Go back to blind faith. Its stupid, but its an honest and respectable stupid.
With the whole proof con we don’t know if you’re an idiot or a liar – or both.
Oh, for…just because someone doesn’t believe in something doesn’t mean they haven’t looked into it and done their research. I wonder why fundies like Madeline consider it a ‘void’ when you don’t believe in Jesus, but don’t tell you you’re missing out for not worshiping Allah? What is that atheist quote about believing in one less god…?
(Either way I rather like my life, so if this is what a ‘void’ is like–awesome!)