I was just curious about why it is you think that the monster is in any way equal belief to other religions. Why exactly did you begin this religion (?), what were your thoughts? I can begin to come to my own conclusions on your thought process, but i wonder if you could exlplain it to me. This subject seems to be pretty important to you, but why would you spend so much time to take hope or beliefs away from others? Do you think that you are simply much more intelligent than the many brilliant men who have come to the conclusion that God exists, or have you simply discovered something they had no access to?
Please respond to this e-mail, this is the MOST important subject any person will ever face. I would appreciate a response.
-Owen
We’re just testing the worthiness of others to be converted to the gospel of his holiness, and I believe that those who are so strongly against blasphemy should not blaspheme us, or the blaspheming will get worse to the point of radical extremist pastafarians.
And how exactly would one go about taking someone’s faith and beleifs? Not like we are putting the book of FSM in every hotel room in the modern world. OR ARE WE?! >
I completely forgot about the Gideon Bible. Talk about presumption. You can’t even rent a room to shack up in for an hour or so without finding the “word of the lord” in the nightstand. Who really wants those things in there? Why do they still put them in hotel rooms? What kind of shit storm would ensue if a major chain like Hilton or Mariott or Holiday Inn said “no thank you” to the Gideons. Wanna bet there would be a world wide boycott by Xtains? Talk about blackmail.
No Xtains aren’t in everyone’s face, they aren’t on tv 24/7, they aren’t in your bedroom away from home, they’re just minding their own business and leaving everyone to mind theirs. RIGHT!!!!
It is quite pathetic that a fictitious noodle could “take away” anything from you.
“why would you spend so much time to take the hope or beliefs away from others?”
You seem to have mistaken us for christian missionaries.
“Why exactly did you begin this religion (?)”
We saw a need for a pasta-based deity.
“Do you think that you are simply much more intelligent than the many brilliant men who have come to the conclusion that God exists, or have you simply discovered something they had no access to?”
“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.” Or as Jesus put it, “Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand” Matthew 13:13
In the interest of science and a tighter society, religion needs to be eliminated from the law. People should be free to worship as they please, but especially in the American South (don’t jump on me for prejudice, I’m southern), seperation of Church and State is a joke. This thing in Kansas is just proof of that. Pastafrians object to that.
“Do you think that you are simply much more intelligent than the many brilliant men who have come to the conclusion that God exists”
Well, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#Studies_comparing_religious_belief_and_I.Q.
What’s the difference between this religion and yours?? Is your God better than our FSM?? Do you have more proof of his existence than we do of FSM?? Our religion just shows the absolute absurdity that IS religion. Get over yourself. Free will, people. Keep the facts straight!
This is a fair question. FSMism started to oppose not learning science in a science classroom. It’s that simple.
We didn’t create FSM to do anything… it peacibly existed for thousands of years since the dawn of time until we got tired of all these other religions constantly fighting and killing and going around do not so kind or goodly things. We have always existed in SECRET and we have more heritage than any other religion you care to name (since we are the oldest). Fortunately for us too! as I’m glad we didn’t have a crusade or Jihad or genocide launched against our funloving and carefree ancestors (except by accident — poor pirates).
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The great FSM gave everyone freedoms which people in the past used to find other religions (one of the reasons why I sometimes question my faith). But we understand and respect those freedoms and allow you to have your own beliefs and we love you anyways (especially your booty). You may find it difficult to understand or love different people or perhaps find it necessary to determine guilt so you can forgive them and allow yourself to love (we feel that sort of mentality demonstrates no respect and it is not the true meaning of love — love and respect — not love and guilt and forgiveness — it also pisses on the idea of do onto others as the guilt thing really screws things up there too).
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But anyways, I’m getting off topic, this isn’t about your misconceptions about our religion which we prefer to keep private even now, I just want to point out:
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`1.We didn’t start a religion, we just stopped being secrative about the oldest religion which is possibly an alien concept to you and your religion. We had no need to announce it in the past.
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`2.The purpose of the announcement was nothing to do with religion or promoting it or demoting others. We have always valued learning and experimenting and the scientific process (especially after the marvellous drugs developed in the 60s) and we didn’t want to confuse matters by having creationism studied without the sound and defendible position presented by FSM.
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`2b.It is also important to use our scientific theories relating to global warming to combat global warming. Other creation theories are so limited in so many different ways and we want to do something good for our futures.
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`3.There was no thought given to spending any time doing anything — let alone using time constructively!? to take away hopes and beliefs… this was exclusivily about the creationscience. We would certainly not spend time doing things or spend time constructively. I can keep saying that all day.
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`4.Well, if I was a woman I would probably be more intelligent than any man, but as a man I’m about as stupid as they come (actually have there been any female religious leaders?), but if something is more important that intelligence, it would be sense. Even the first meatball didn’t know how or why fire worked, but it had enough sense not to want to go in the fire. Similiarly like fire, you may not comprehend all of god’s methods and meanings but you know that the FSM. Look, I’ll type it again FSM. See there it was twice… can’t argue with that. FSM. Three times!! It must definately exist. FMS… nope, but don’t let that fool you I’m dyslexic so you know what? That was Fuor Times!!
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`5a.You started with the wrong idea… the question is not what you consider it to be… you should consider a different broader view as you asked this entirely wrong… stuff like creating a religion? and when did it start? and what is the purpose of everything? those are indeed good questions that you should look at very closely. You should look retrospectively at FSM and see what is our tasty lord means? did our historical figures like the great Pirate Hoan who FSM told to build a great ark because of a major downer that would last for 40 days and 40 nights pay an attention to all the booty that he wasn’t able to go and pirate from Australia and the Americas (our secrets include having googleearth long before the pyramids were built — both thanks to the great and most tasty one) … hmm, how does the rest of the story go? was there a story or was it something I ate lastnight? Whatever, about the question… what is stuff and what does it really mean when someone compares different aspects what we are talking about.
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`5b.You started with the wrong idea… the question is not what you consider it to be… You probably have no concept of “Intelligent Design” as it has no relation to “Creationism” other than having next to everything copied word for word. This is probably why it should be taught in schools (why not start with Sunday Schools since it has such a large positive following there) to teach you what you are talking about — unfortunately your biggest problem would then be that FSM makes more sense than other “Intelligent Design” theories such as “Creationism”.
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`5c.You started with the wrong idea… the question is not what you consider it to be… the question is why are you so smart that you know anything about anything to say anything to anyone about what they should be teaching their kids. FSM is mearly an explanation of the universe and creation — a giant mirror that we are holding in your faces and suddenly you don’t like what you see… so know you know one of the major precepts of FSM, that it is really just a mirror — both in the childish way of repeating everything already said in an annoying but twisted way but also in the ugly way of representing exactly what everything looks like with all its tiny imperfections… don’t look in the mirror you won’t like what you see you stupid buffoon.
Satire is an important weapon, for fighting arrogance and ignorance. The Christian establishment in the US took the battle over the minds of our young into the education system by demanding that Inteligent Design is taught in schools. We need to resist this suedo-science with any intellectual weapon that we can, including satire.
Yours,
Filius
I believe that this “religion” (whether it be taken seriously or not) is the most balanced one out there, up with the fudamental basics of buddhism. I think that in participating in this religion people will learn what most other religions were probably first formed to teach in the first place, enjoy life to the fullest, learn to laugh and to take a fall (because, hey, isn’t that what life’s about?), and don’t hate your fellow man. Most religions have been fought over or war waged because of people who take things too seriously, and the FSM is about peace and enjoyment, not hate or impressing the religion upon other people.
OK, since everyone else is probably trying to explain to you why we are doing what we are doing, I and going to do something else….
I want to THANK YOU for your article for the following reasons
PS. also, if anyone that leaves a message after this agrees that this man, Owen, deserves thanks for any of the following reasons, let everyone know in your reply!!!!!!
1.You actually use decent English in your article
2.You actually spell every word (as far as I can tell) in your article correctly (the authors of the other articles could definitely use a dictionary
3.You did not quote the Bible, Quran, or any other religious text. Instead you are actually trying to use LOGIC to give out your point: that we are wasting time trying to make people convert to another religion.
4.You HONESTLY DIDN’T QUOTE THE BIBLE, your probably the first article questioning this site that hasn’t, its a nice change
5.You weren’t a jerk, saying how dumb we were thinking this stuff and just asked a simply question (unlike the other guys, who have to curse with every other word, oh, and I say jerks because your article was so good that I’d feel like a bad person if I used stronger words)
6.You realize that most people on this site DON’T BELIEVE THIS STUFF, whereas others that question us treat us as if we are some stupid cult and it is their “solemn duty as whatever religion they believe in to convert us to their religion and save our souls………. blah blah blah”
7.YOU HONESTLY DID NOT USE ANY QUOTES FROM THE BIBLE, I JUST CAN’T GET OVER THAT. YOU SINGLE HANDEDLY CONVINCED ME THAT THERE ARE SOME INTELLIGENT PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT QUESTION THE FSM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do many of the judeo-christian faith impose their religion upon others, against their will and against the CONSTITUTION, as long as Americans abide by the constitution it is ILLEGAL to force your religious ideas on the American populous. So why dose the RR fear ideas that challenge theirs? And they attack our beliefs which are founded in science. Also, we don’t say there isn’t a god, we just say the bible is false and that god is a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ramen
-J.T.S.
Pastafarians do not actually take away hopes or dreams away from other religions. i think you dont feel happy about yourself, do ya?
P.S. I hate the invisible pink unicorn
P.S.S. RAmen
I’d like to thank Pirate X for his reply to the letter, although he forgot the proper phrase to end it.
There is nothing more to say on that matter.
… Well actually there is.
Since the numbers of us pirates are continuously growing, we here in Germany (that’s on the other side of the big blue water thing… for the American readers ;-) ) are having the coldest spring that I can remember.
This may not be the ultimate prove, but who needs prove, when you have faith?
RAmen
You’d think that people who were confident in their religion wouldn’t be so threatened by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Unless, of course, they really think there’s something to be threatened by…
You’ve made me think of something neal. Why don’t we replace the bible with an FSM related book? Alternately, we could have both the Bible and the Gospel of the FSM in there.
But I doubt the effectiveness of such a campaign, if done on such a small scale.