keeping the faith at Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

The BBC reports that the while the US is one of the most religious countries in the west, it is undergoing a period of doubt.

It may be daring to say it but America seems to be experiencing an atheist moment. Although “In God We Trust” was declared the national motto by an act of Congress more than 50 years ago and has been stamped on the currency for longer than that, some considerable doubt has developed of late.

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More than anything, people without faith hate the description of them as empty or soulless. They have long been singled out for a special kind of hell.

The constitution of the state of Texas, for example, allows discrimination against atheists in employment or jury duty - provisions that have been nullified by federal laws.

And even my mother used to lower her voice in the kind of whisper reserved for people with terminal brain cancer when she described a neighbour as…. an atheist.

Non-believers say they have also been aided by the revulsion of fair-minded Americans to the religious zealotry behind the September 11 attacks and the subsequent violence on behalf of radical Islam.

You can read the entire article here: here.

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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American

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61 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

You are pretty trusting.
62 PacificPam (IF) Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

huh?
63 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

Obviosly you havn’t been told the “MySpace and chat lines are evil” crap. Old people are convinced that all the internet is is porn and child-molesters.
64 PacificPam (IF) Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

OH,
I met him here…hahaha…There are tons of crazy people out there but I think he is not one of them
65 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Yeah, one of my friends met someone online and now they are getting married in November.
66 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

We got another “edging people out” medal.
67 Starbuckaneer Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

I think our Prophet should make an eHarmony-esque commercial starring you guys.
68 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

Damn, I lied. Sorry.
69 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

FSM, I’m a minor!
70 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

I can’t even drink!
71 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

TV, not a bad idea, though.
72 PacificPam (IF) Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Another medal? Coool!
73 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

I lied about the medal.
74 Starbuckaneer Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Oh… and I forgot… ttyl ppl? idk wtf b/c my cpu sux and my bff is gr8. txt me l8tr cuz i gotta go lol omgzzz
75 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

Starbuccaneer and SanAndreas posted too. My bad.
76 Starbuckaneer Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

You’re a minor? That sucks… although… I liked being 17… my first year of college… that was FUN.
77 Starbuckaneer Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Or are you the kind of miner that needs a canary?
78 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Because of wenches or grog?
79 PacificPam (IF) Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

I can get alcohol for you. I think is stupid that law. In Panama you can start drinking since you are 18.
My bosses used to buy me beer when I lived in Arizona.
80 Noodly0ne Oct 30th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

Minor as in child.