Hilary Matheson of The Journal-Standard has written an article about Online Worship. He covers The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and The Church of Google.
I’m quoted a few times:
Pastafarianism is a sensible alternative religion for some people. We offer spirituality and community, without the traps of dogma; no one has ever killed in the name of Pastafarianism, for instance.
And this one:
Some people feel mocked, but that was never my intent. I’m all for freedom of religion. I have not problems with Christians or creationism ideology, to the extent that they keep their beliefs out of public policy. There is no state-sponsored religion-some people don’t want to accept it.
And the best one:
Religion doesn’t have to make sense. You have to have faith. There’s all sorts of things that don’t make any sense in FSM. It’s fine. I contradict myself all the time. You can get away with anything in the religion business.
Here’s the article, you may find it interesting.
(By the way, my Physics degree is Bachelor of Science, not Arts – not that it matters).
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Score 1 for the good guys!
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We really are gaining popularity. Lets just hope we don’t get involved in any religious war.
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RAmen!
May the article’s author’s spaghetti never dry!
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Pretty cool article.
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The last quote was fabulous.
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“no one has ever killed in the name of Pastafarianism, for instance.”
We can remedy this! Arm the Pasta Crusaders! Up the Jolly Pirate Fish! Let fly the meatballs from the catapults and loose the arrows of uncooked spaghetti! Attack the unbelievers with heavily garlicked sauces! Lay siege to the citadels of fundies, islamofascists, and anti-piratism. Arr, Mateys!!
Oh, did I miss the non-violence session?
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Religion doesn’t have to make sense. You have to have faith. There’s all sorts of things that don’t make any sense in FSM. It’s fine. I contradict myself all the time. You can get away with anything in the religion business.
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that is the best one all right :))) The conclusion is utterly brilliant here.
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ARRRRRR
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wow, i must say the scientific evidence in favor of googlism is quite outstanding. I think it is our duty as Pirates to draw more graphs and fine-tune data to point in the direction of His Noodleness if we want to maintain the illusion of a scientifically backed religion. Or we chould just buy some celebrities.
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I would go further and say making sense is a positive hinderance for religions.
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I was moved by this part of the article:
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Boulton wasn’t always an atheist; he said he rarely gave much thought to religion or others beliefs until he began military service in Northern Ireland during the “Troubles,” – violence between Protestants and Catholics from 1963 to 1985 according to BBC online.
“I personally became sick to my back teeth of people professing their faith and belief in a loving God who then went out to murder and maim people because they went to the wrong church,” Boulton said.
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I’m so proud of us. Excellent representation!!
RAmen!!
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Hahahah, that last quote of you is epic. Nicely versed.
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“”We believe that God created the world, but we don’t have to believe it was seven, twenty-four hour days, at least not at my church,” Hill said.”"
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That’s the funny part of Christianity:
“we believe the bible… until we realy think it doesn’t make sense, then we don’t believe those parts. We give it another meaning and there you go.”
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I killed a whole plate of linguine tonight, and then I went back for seconds and killed that serving too. Would that mean I’ve killed a couple of times in the name of Pastafarianism?
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@All Free Do
Depends on interpretation, but most pastafarians will say no.
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I can not believe the people send hatemail to this site. Is that not religious persecution lol. I love hiporacy.
also to All Free Do
That is the most sanctified act you can perform.
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To fairdinkum
I agree. They (Christians for the most part) love to say they are persecuted when someone creates a website they can choose to not visit and even to ignore. But if we complain of the persecution we receive when also wishing to be taught in public science classrooms, then we are seen as a parody. How do we know that the bible wasn’t written as a book of parody of the Egyptians’s and Greek’s religion years ago…I think that be funny. Too bad for them – no stripper factory or beer volcano when they die.
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“Epic”
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A foothold, RAmen! You have represented us as a group excellently! May your balls stay meaty and your spaghetti never dry.
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I beg to differ, it does matter that you have a Bachelor of Science not art degree in physics. I think a B.A. in physics would amount to Feng shui and Crystals.
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I agree. Feng shui be important to me.
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