You Atheists think you have got it all figured out huh? So you THINK you know that there is no God so you make up this ridiculous fake religion. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? COME ON!! As if making fun of Christians for believing in God wasn’t bad enough you have to mock us by making up The Flying Spaghetti monster? Yeah, I know that an atheist made this crap up, because no one is stupid enough to actually believe Pasta is our Almighty God. This is totally wrong and whoever started this is seriously going to pay unless you repent. Because if you don’t, you and all your believers are all going to burn in HELL for eternity. So pick up a Bible, and READ IT!!
Sincerely,
A Strong Christian
@El Peatieablo
Saying that you believe in FSM does not mean you’re telling the truth..
Really believing in FSM is just as stupid as believing in any other made-up god..
But saying you do can really fuck someone’s religious mind if they’re really into it, and I got to say.. It’s so much fun switching all the time..
like some christian dumb bitch was telling some friend that I believed in a Spaghetti monster as a god, and that I was serious about it. The friend looked at me like i’m stupid.. especially when I told her I converted (or whatever you call it)…”Oh really.. thats so good of you”.. yeah isn’t it, Russels Teapot FTW hahaha
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“As if making fun of Christians for believing in God wasn’t bad enough you have to mock us by making up The Flying Spaghetti monster?”
Ehh why are you feeling so attacked as a christian? We don’t discriminate, as we mock all religions..
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@El Peatieablo
“P.S. Which of The Eight “I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts” are you talking about, I can’t find it.”
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It’s the first one, which reads as follows:
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I’d really rather you didn’t act like a sanctimonious holier-than-thou ass when describing my noodly goodness. If some people don’t believe in me, that’s okay. Really, I’m not that vain. Besides, this isn’t about them so don’t change the subject.
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@ DutchPastaGuy
1: You are right, I thought you were saying FSM was saying I could be a Pastafarian and still be an Atheist (evidently you are, which I still don’t understand, but the FSM is for sure ok with Atheists).
2: How do you get that piratey symbol in you name, and is there a way to make a meatball symbol?
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@El Peatieablo
“2: How do you get that piratey symbol in you name, and is there a way to make a meatball symbol?”
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Someone else had it first, I got mine by copy-pasting the single symbol into my username. I believe it’s done through unicode, but I’ve taken the lazy copy-paste option. Don’t know of any meatball symbol.
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hey, strong christian, if you can hear me all the way up there on your pedestal, YOUR RIGHT! what was i thinking choosing to be an athiest? and how could i have indulged in something like pastafarianism? i’m sorry i offended you, i really am.
now if it hasn’t occured to you yet, i’m being sarcastic. i think it’s hillarious that you instinctively presume FSM is mocking christians in particular, even though there’s a cornicopia of religions who’d be just as infuriated by him. i geuss its a bit symbolic of the good old fashioned christian notion that without them the world would stop turning.
so, as i choose not to repent, it seems i’m hell-bound. oh well. i’m sure it must be frustrating, maybe even offensive, that i’m taking what you believe to be the gravest sentance so lightly.
but couldn’t i also be offended by your blabbering to me about repenting and hell and the bible when clearly i don’t believe in any of it. so my disbelief angers you? maybe my disillusionment angers you. i’m happy as an athiest so deal with that.
ps. regardless of who reads these posts, writing them is eerily cathartic, a microcosmic shouting from atop a mountain, a pure demonstration of my freedom to say whatever the fuck i want. i love it.
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Well, I wonder about heaven. The little old ladies will be there with their veils because they go every day to church. (And give lots of money so preacher can drive around in style). The boring bastard guy who mows his lawn next to me and sends out leaflets about JC will be there. Well, f*ck me I would rather burn in a christian hell than talk to them for the end of my days. What about a little baby who dies at 3 months old, or the guy who got brain damaged in a car crash. I suppose they are good and just get to be heavenly vegetables for ever. For ever and ever and ever. Praise the Lord. Suppose I can blow up a few locals and be a Muslim hero and get the 72 virgin full service.
Or rather I can take a rational view on life and wonder about the universe in total awe and not need an after life and salvation with the tedious good living folk and virgin priests of any religion. Maybe I just want to live my life as well as I can and in the end I might be planted under a tree that grows a bit more strongly because of my minerals. I never corrupted a childs mind, force my views on you and only ask that you question all that you are told. Its a good way to live life.
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@ PI – RAmen to that! Great post!! Question all you are told…at 37 and years away from my Catholic indoctrination I still have trouble with that one. Religion is poison to the mind!
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37? Good age. I was indoctrinated in a jesuit school, beaten for not knowing the catechism of roman catholic doctrine and sent to church 5 times a week. If I could face it I would go and chase them all for child abuse if most of the nazi catholics I know as jesuits weren’t dead now. They broke the blood vessels in your hands with leather straps for failing exams on religion and anything else. (in 1979).
Read any book on quantum physics and then wonder how the virgin man in a black an white collar is the first to be consulted on serious issues in the community…….
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@ PI – You had it way worse than I did, for sure. I still have a lot of guilt and self-loathing (not just from Catholicism – I have other damage I’m unwinding as well). And thanks for the comment about 37. I look better and feel better than at any other point in my life. Self-respect and the freedom to be my authentic self (still not there yet but making real progress) go a long way toward being healthier at every level.
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I challenge everything. (including the fire drill at work, the need for a stand for my monitor at work that I don’t want, the fact that we were asked to send a shoe box full of toys to Bosnia for Xmas, but that the distributors of the boxes would put a book of bible stories in our box for us so the Muslim orphans would know the error of their ways and the true meaning of Xmas was god giving his son to us on the cross etc. etc.). I am supremely happy and well adjusted though and gain much amusement at the irony of the god botherers responses to to challenges on this site. My friend is a grave digger and has no place for religion. He gets £500 per grave ($1000) and the longer the service, the longer it keeps him out of the pub. Suffice to say, he holds no religious views and death is death. Dust to dust. Literally. Live today like it is the last day of your life.
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@ PI – You sound like my husband with the question everything list! I teach my horse back riding students to question everything, including what I teach them. Sometimes they really challenge me! And I’m always better off for it because I have to think of a new way to look at something, usually on the fly and under pressure!
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I literally don’t understand the views on graves that we have today (here in the US anyway, it seems you are a Brit and I don’t know how it’s done over there). People are buried in very expensive coffins, inside a concrete shroud that is set in the ground before the service. What??? So much for dust to dust…all the religious preaching apparently makes no difference. If it did, there wouldn’t be that level of insanity about this (and a lot of other things).
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@PI- I feel your pain. I went to Catholic elementary school, still have scars on my hands (for having messy handwriting) and I can’t stand being sticky (if we got caught chewing gum we had to stick it on our nose until the end of the day). I learned to question everything because it all seemed insane to me even then. The whole rejection of science thing seemd particularly moronic, especially when the Roman Catholic Church tried to get rid of zero.
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Yikes, and I thought a smoking Health teacher was bad…
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I was rasised a poor black child!
I got over it though.
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@ PP – I’m so glad for you! :))
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Thanks Rowdy!
I just needed a break from the intensity at that other place. :))
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@ PP – Yeah, quite a thing going, eh?
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people have the right to believe in what they want, stop being disrespectfull in what some people chose to believe, the reason that this is a valid religion is becuase as supporters of the christain faith state that since you can’t disprove it, it must mean it exists well that is just the same for the flying spag monster!
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Read the GOD delusion
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Kiss my satanic ass you chirstian nazi…. Your religion is cute
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You a satanist IQS? As bad as christians in my book :D
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I read the bible it was usles
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@michael Sep 12th, 2007 at 4:05 am: “I read the bible it was usles”
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How long did it take you to do that? It’s quite a brick! And no happy end at all! If marketed now as something new, it wouldn’t be accepeted by any publisher, and not only because of the lack of happy end!
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Solo puedo decir esto…. ese pbre kbron fue PwNeAD0
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@michael Sep 12th, 2007 at 4:05 am
“I read the bible it was usles”
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I’ve heard the paper is fine and could be usefull in an emergency….so my father told me anyway :)
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The guy who use to baby sit me was from a Catholic family. He once used the Bible when he ran out of rizlas. The paper is about the same in the pocket version.
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Because the paper the bible is made of is so fine, it’s a perfect medium to start a small campfire with the old stick rubbing method.
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Oh yeah…I’m sure my dad was including that use as well as the other….long way between stops on some of the roads in OZ :)
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He was educated in a Catholic school as well :)
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@ca0s86 Sep 13th, 2007 at 10:54 pm: “Solo puedo decir esto…. ese pbre kbron fue PwNeAD0″
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¿Te cuesta mucho escribir (teclear) palabras completas? Incluso me pregunto si sabes escribir tu taco preferido correctamente…
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Dear “Strong Christian” (and the rest of you bible-thumping assclowns)
Please to STFU. Your religious intolerance reeks of hypocrisy. By your “reasoning”, anyone who mocks your invisible flying god or doesn’t follow blindly by his rules (bleating merrily all the while) is going to burn in hell. The Pilgrims fled England because of asshats like you. Another thought to ponder: organized religion exists only to obtain wealth and power and to maintain control over the sheeple. More people were murdered in the name of your god than were by Hitler and Stalin together.
Turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, and STFU.
Your friend,
Dave
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@ Dave
Hitler and Stalin were piss weak. what about Mao?
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The theory of Intelligent Design seems based on the idea that human beings, along with everything else, are such incredible, functional creations that they must have been designed rather than accidental creations of evolution. So why did he give us the appendix, whose only function seems to go bad and cause intense pain and probably death before medical science gave us surgery. Glad car designers don’t put in parts designed solely to make the car break down. Does that mean Henry Ford was a better designer than God?
If man must have been created, then who created God? Surely he is a far more complex being so by Christian logic someone must have created him. Maybe it was the FSM?
As for burning in Hell if i don’t accept Jesus as my saviour, what about the billions of people who existed before he came along. Does that mean they get sent to Hell automatically, or do they get a free pass to heaven because they didn’t have the chance to accept Jesus?
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Oh, hell no. How can you even claim there is a god? I don’t trample on your religion, so the next one of you pompous-ass Christians to tell me that what I believe is wrong (when no one even knows) is going to fucking die.
I’ll do the jail time, I don’t give a shit.
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Kami
“so the next one of you pompous-ass Christians to tell me that what I believe is wrong (when no one even knows) is going to fucking die.
I’ll do the jail time, I don’t give a shit.”
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Hi there – naah – just take the piss. We’re not as dogmatic as the rest. People are entitled to their opinion- so what if it’s different?
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@Kami
Noooo, FSMism is strongly against violence, we wouldn’t want any of our members being homocidal maniacs.
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Besides, people do some fucked up stuff to you in jail…
RAmen
Your’s truly,
Pope Pixel I
Protector of Wenches
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@ Kami
we’re pirates, we don’t have to kill them, just pillage their coastal towns.
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I agree. It’s been far too long since I’ve heard tell of a good, old-fashioned pillaging.
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Dave,
What is STFU?
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I can translate:
S hut
T he
F uck
U p
cheers!
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Why are we arguing about this?
Both sides will not give up on thier position, and while ID is based on a something from nothing, so is the Big Bang, all the matter in the universe came from a singularity, but where did that singulartiy come from? As with god, who or what created god, why cant both sides realize that they both only have ideas about what happened when the universe was created and stop trying to force thier ideas on one another
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@JEsus
“but where did that singulartiy come from?”
His most eminent Noodlyness of course!
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“As with god, who or what created god”
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Same!
RAmen
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All the godbotherers I’ve ever met have been weak types. They just copy the words, ideas and actions of their masters. Too scared to think outside the square of their little church social circles.
Any wonder they’re called sheep! Lucky the health of the planet is in God’s hands and no one has to think about it or change their attitude. Just keep on raping and pillaging it!!
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look at the good christian condeming everyone to hell
LETS HEAR IT FOR THE GOOD CHRISTIAN
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You should all read the bible right now!!!
Not because you’ll go to hell if you don’t, but because it freaks out the Ro-Bo Jo-Bo’s when you stat telling them stuff about their religion they conveniently forget.
They came to my door before, “people say in the name of god but do they know what gods name is?”
“It’s Iehovah isn’t it?”
“Oh…yes…how did you know”
I had them there for 30min, standing in my door way in my boxers (me not the Jo-Bo’s) trying to tell me the bible made sense and didn’t contradict it self. I insisted it did and mentioned the parts.
They came back the next month and asked for me by name. Same shit, same out come. But they were jolly good fun and made good on what would have been a boring Saturday morning.
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Absence of proof is NOT proof of absence
Something worth noting for the counter.
“It is also worth noting that the new atheists, as mentioned, fail to provide any solid argument in support of the non-existence of God. This is not because of some lack of intellectual sophistication on their part, but rather because, as most philosophers will readily admit, non-existence is something that can never be proven. Christopher Hitchens, generally considered the most knowledgeable and entertaining of the five authors mentioned, argues that God does not exist because “all attempts to reconcile faith with science and reason are consigned to failure and ridicule”.
In making this claim, Hitchens makes two mistakes. First, he fails to account for the fact that a large proportion of scientists (as many as 50 per cent according to the late Stephen Jay Gould, a leading spokesman for evolutionary theory) do believe in God. Second, and more importantly, he is totally oblivious to the fact that, in the order of natural (ie, non-revealed) knowledge, the idea that God exists can only make sense as a philosophical answer to a metaphysical question. Throughout history, the concept of God has always appeared as one having to do with the why of a certain existence. And the question as to why something exists is not a scientific one because whatever its answer might be, it does not lend itself to empirical verification, ie, it is not falsifiable through experimentation. Anyone wondering whether God exists is well aware that he is not raising a scientific question because all scientific enquiries are geared to what a given thing actually is, rather than to why it exists. In short, religion has nothing to do with what things are – that is the realm of natural science -, but rather with why they happen to be at all.
But there is an even deeper flaw in the thinking of the new atheists. All assume that in the debate on God, the basic distinction is that between believers and unbelievers. Yet, as Blaise Pascal, a 17th Century mathematician, scientist and inventor of the first working computer, notes in his Pensées, the true absolute distinction is between “seeking” and “unseeking” unbelievers, between unhappy atheists who seek and eventually become believers, and happy atheists who simply don’t care. Pascal reminds us that God judges atheists, not by the supernatural standard of faith, but rather by the natural standard of reason. ” Atheism becomes fashionable
The difference is experience with God (me) vs non experience (you and atheists).
A mother tells a child not to touch that hot Iron and the kid listens and ‘believes’ his Mom. As soon as the Mom leaves the room the child touches the Hot Iron and gets burned. He just went from a ‘belief’ the Iron was hot to an ‘experience’ that the Iron ‘is’ hot with 100% assurance. No one can come and tell him otherwise because his experience tells him different. He is 100% certain the Iron is hot and he has the burn to prove it.
Well I have felt the Hot Iron of God’s hand on me and cannot be persuaded otherwise because I have an experience that removed ALL doubt, I am 100% certain there is a God.
On the flip an atheist cannot say they have 100% certainty based on a non experience, it is based on a belief still. They have a belief based on lack of said experience, but they remain uncertain (lack of assurance).
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@Dan can you prove God? just because you can not prove gods lack of existance doesn’t mean he exists.
As for the Iron thing, WTF? Using the same methods prove the existence of your deity.
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Let me feel the scar left by God’s Hot Iron ; let me put my hand in the wound.
The baby has evidence he can share with others and you have a story you tell to people who already believe. How does that analogy stand up? I would say like a wet noodle, but that would insult His Holy Appendage.
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“984 Domino
Sep 15th, 2007 at 8:40 am
So why did he give us the appendix, whose only function seems to go bad and cause intense pain and probably death before medical science gave us surgery. ”
I think they just found some reason for the appendix. I read an article that it was a kind of hiding spot for good bacterias. When your digestive bacterias (asedophylus sp? among others) gets wiped out by illness ( or antibiotics ), this little area protects some of the good bacterias so they may repopulate the digestive organs. Took us a friggin long time to figure that one out eh?
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