It looks like the Polk County School Board has noticed us. Or at least the local newspaper.
The Ledger has published an article about our movement titled “Satirical Monsters More Competition for Darwin”.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has stretched its noodles to Polk County.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, or FSM, is a satirical group that pokes fun at intelligent design. It first emerged in 2005 during the debate in Kansas over whether the belief should be taught in science classes.
The group has sent dozens of e-mails to Polk County School Board members demanding that the idea of a Flying Spaghetti Monster creating the world receive classroom equal time with other views. The e-mail campaign began after four of seven board members said in November that they supported teaching intelligent design in addition to evolution.
I don’t like it when they refer to our beliefs as being “satirical”, but if that’s the context they have to use to get the story out, then so be it.
So it looks like our campaign is working. Well done.
Yeeha.
Yayyyyyyyyyyyy! The power of his Noodlyness is truly amazing :)
Satirical?! Do we call their stupid ID theory to be Satrical? Seeing how it is a poor spoof of the Truth, Pastafarianism, we should.
Excellent, the Pastafarian cause is gaining in strength. Speaking of furthering the cause, I’ve nominated the FSM as being of the year on a religious BBC blog:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2007/12/person_of_the_year_2007.html
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Last year Dawkins was elected person of the year, that was sweet (some votes came in through CoFSM). Let’s all vote to go one better this year and get the FSM elected being of the year!
Woohoo…excellent.
RAmen
“Board member Frank O’Reilly, who supports the new science standards, said he received about 50 e-mails from FSM supporters. “It’s a lot,” O’Reilly said. “Most of them are from the spaghetti monster.”
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Hahahahahahaha….love it :)))))
Yes we rule!
Three cheers for the cause!
Well done my brother and sister Pastafarians!!
However, in the article it states that the Dobson clan has emerged as a contributor to the situation, so I recomend more e-mails to the board members because you know the Dobson clan is doing the same thing. FSM be with us all!!
Hail to the FSM - His noodles have certainly blessed us!
Fellow Pastafarians…I think we should take this as a victory in one of the battles of this so-called war agiains IDiotism.
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Raaaaaaaaamen!
WOOHOO!
Well done, group.
They now know who we are! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *that is my evil laugh*
You Guys ROCK! I’M FROM POLK COUNTY!!! Thank goodness they didn’t teach “intelligent design” when I was in the public school system. Although, if they start teaching “Noodle Design” I might have to see if I can move back to that place.
RAmen, brothers and sisters! Keep fighting the good fight!
Let’s keep it going, then!
Merry ChriFSMas and RAmen!
May their streets be flooded with marinara
Only dozens!!!
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It’s not too late to make our views known in Iowa!
we are NOT satirical! we are a ligitiment religion! and we’ve been around WAY before 2005!