how many believers of the fsm have died for their belief when they could have simply renounced that belief and lived?I’ve noticed that atheist and / or FSM “believers” don’t have any really original arguments either.
-henry.d
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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
your just mad….poor you
I did. I’m posting from the bar at the foot of the beer volcano. It has WiFi.
Nobody hates us, so we don’t really have to worry about that, now do we?
Just goes to show we’re smarter than the average believer. BTW, if martyrdom is the touchstone you wish to establish for the authenticity of a belief system, you should know thousnads of guys named Akmed have bought the farm so they could new themselves a harem of 73 virgins. Next time you look at or see a picture of the New York skyline think about that.
Yes. You’ve figured us out, Henry. We’re terribly unoriginal! Everybody already knew the Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything and we just copied off them! We’re sorry!
Lets see…..I don’t recall ANY Pastafarians dying for their beliefs. You have a rough estimate on how many christians have died for THEIR beliefs?
On the flip side of that arguement, how many people have killed others in the name of their belief when they could have just walked away and let them live?
Religion hasn’t had any new or even compelling arguments in centuries.
None.
Next question?
lol wut?
Measuring the strength of your faith by the number of martyrs puts you in a very special category of extremists.
You don’t seem to realise that FSM is not a real religion. Most Pastafarians are Atheists and agnostics. Atheists are killed all the time throughout the world. Atheists in Africa and Arabia are murdered on an almost daily basis. Even in America, Atheists are occasionally murdered just for being Atheists: Madalyn Murray O’Hair and her family were brutally murdered in the 1990s.
Also… the FSM, in itself, is an “original argument.” We have plenty of original arguments, thanks.
Fail.
I’m a little confused, help me out here Henry.
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Your last line, “I’ve noticed that atheist and / or FSM “believers” don’t have any really original arguments either.”
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By either did you mean to include Christianity?
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Just asking.
i would say… probably… erm…. none.
so that makes me alot better off that the followers of a certain sadistic ‘god’
FSM FTW!!!!
Dear Henry,
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I have plenty of respect for those people, regardless of beliefs, who are willing to die before reouncing said beliefs. My issue with your attack is that you assume that the only beliefs one would die for are religious. Many people have died for their political beliefs, amongst those being the belief that the first amendment provides freedom from religion as well as freedom of religion. Church and state are seperate entities and whenever the two have mixed nothing good has come for common man. You assume that atheists and pastafarians would not die to protect this precious freedom and I will tell you now sir that you are a fool. Similarly many a scientist has been persecuted by the church for teaching things which go against stated dogma and in all likely hood many of them did renounce those discoveries. We do not remember those people. We remember those people who chose to fight for their beliefs and risked persecution.
Umm thats a tough one…. lets see, 0. Yea, 0 have died. Wow, I never knew it was so high.
I hope the answer is 0. No one should have to renounce their faith under penalty of death.
With that being said, it begs the question:
How many believers of the Christian Faith have died for their belief when they could have simply renounced that belief and lived? Please cite specific examples and statistics.
The Jewish?
The Muslim?
etc…..
Zero have died. Now we cal all rest easy.
I know of one believer who chose to walk the plank rather than betray our beloved FSM.
ARRGH!
RAmen
None!
Now, I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to say by this, but if you’re suggesting that our religion has less merit than others for this reason, I refer you to Nietzsche - “A casual stroll through an asylum will show that faith does not prove anything.
The FSM, in his Noodly Goodness, wouldn’t ask his Pastafarian followers to die for him. We’re pirates, by Noodles! and we never die. Arrgh!!! We don’t have to subject ourselves to being the tools of a totalitarianism cloaked in the pseudo-mysteries of theology. We drink grog, partake of wenches; we have a heaven adorned by a beer volcano and replete with a stripper factory. Hey, wait a minute, what am I waiting for? Forget the Earth, I’m going to be a martyr, grab hold of His Noodly Appendage and shimmy on up to paradise…maybe there are 72 virgin olive oils waiting for me…