Rolling Stone has featured the Flying Spaghetti Monster in its latest issue - the one with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger on the cover - the April 17, 2008 issue, pictured to the right. Check out page 39.
RS has a huge circulation; who knows how many converts we gained. It’s cool to see the mainstream media picking up on the fastest growing religion in the world.
The article - Investigating Bush - is about Rep. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. More or less, he’s the guy calling out the Bush Administration on their bullshit. I could not be more pleased that the FSM was included - I have a lot of respect for Rep. Waxman, as I imagine many Pastafarians do.
I’ve included a couple scans. Click to enlarge.
The FSM is placed furthest to the left on the “with us - against us” scale. That is awesome.
This is the second time that the FSM has been featured in Rolling Stone. The first was in the November 3, 2005 issue. Hoobastank vocalist Doug Robb was wearing an FSM shirt. He also thanked the the FSM on their last album’s cover-art.
Wow, congrats! Keep up the good work.
RAmen
Being both pro-life and Pastafarian, I find it highly offensive that it is implied that the two things are opposite.
Doesn’t this religion value logical thought? Because I decided to be pro-life AND atheist/pastafarian due to logical thought. Not because of any us vs. them mentality that causes ALL “Conservative” values to be considered evil to “Liberals” and all “Liberal” values to be considered evil to “Conservatives”.
Rolling Stone seems to not be “Liberal” because that’s ACTUALLY what anyone involved believes, but more because it SELLS.
Personally, I wouldn’t want Pastafari to be associated with that.
ALSO: Here’s my beliefs on all of the issues shown there.
FSM: I’m posting here, aren’t I?
Electric car: Stop wasting your time and work on a hydrogen powered car. It has real potential, unlike purely electric cars which take hundreds of batteries to get to the speed of your grandma’s Pinto.
Legalizing pot: Honestly, I’m for making cigarettes ILLEGAL, so I really don’t want to take a step BACKWARDS and legalize pot.
“Killed the Republican brand”: While I don’t really agree with most of what Bush has done, really people need to just shut up. He’s almost out of office, and he’s not done anything that will have any real lasting effect. And YES, that includes the Iraq war.
Homosexuals: Just legalize gay marriage and stop being idiots already. Are people REALLY so homophobic tha they have to invade other people’s lives? It’s not hurting you, why do you CARE? Hell, I’M straight, but I still think homosexuals should have the right to do whatever the hell they want.
Cheney “So?”: Really? Damn. What a dick.
Pro-life: Hey guys, guess what? People shouldn’t get to decide if other people get to live or not. ESPECIALLY if the person the decision is being made about has previously been completely incapable of performing any action to cause them to not have the right to live. You know, like killing a bunch of people or something.
Bush “Romantic”: Hey, let’s invade the guy’s personal life. Real great there, Rolling Stone. If you’re going to be a tabloid, just admit it.
Buchanan racism: Damn it. Why am I surrounded by idiots? “Durp he’s black, don’t vote for him.” Real great political logic there guys. Just great.
4000 death toll: While we’re speaking of people who end up not alive, let’s look at those abortions you support. 46 million. Every year. Since the war’s been going on for five years, that means that 230 million abortions have occured since the beggining of the Iraq War. So that’s 57500 times as many dead people. So keep pretending you care about human life Rolling Stone. I’m sure you’ll sell more magazines that way.
That’s excellent! Its a breath of fresh air!
Of course it probably helps that the FSM does have two meaty rolling stones of his own.
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Congrats!
Not quite but almost “On the cover of the Rolling Stone!”
Arrr, its wonderful to see His Image in Rolling Stone. I think the word “deity” in quotation marks is a little disrespectful, though. I’ll go soothe my irritation with some beer & spaghetti.
OH that is really great. Henry Waxman is a great American… even if he suffers from the inability to actually FLUSH the toilet that is the Bush Administration….
Its a big handle to push and we need the tentacles of the FSM to help us….
FSM FSM…
Can the FSM as Time’s, “Man* of the Year,” be far behind.
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*Somewhat loosly defined
a few words come to mind here… “amazing!” “Great!!” “wonderful!” this is truly a blessing from the FSM.
At this time I am at the mall spreading the word of the FSM, I’ve met 2 guys who are also Pastafarians, and together we spread the word of his Noodley Appendage!
RAMEN
-pirateanarchist
~renegade [aka] I Know Things.
Peace and Pyrates!
I’m going see Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay after this @8
1. Captain Shplane.
Chilax, it’s not the other stuff in the article we care about, as for being pro-life, that’s cool, but the difference between you and many other Pro-Life people is that you arrived at your decision through logic, reason, and reflection, but must people arrive at the conclusion because God told them so. I personally am on the pro-life side of the fence too, but I’m keeping a firm grasp on that fence because there are extenuating circumstances.
2. jeremykeys.
Yes, good job, perhaps when you get to Heaving you can go “Freakin at the Freakers Ball” with “The Queen of the Silver Dollar” and the strippers from the factory.
I’m proud to see that the Rolling Stone has put marijuana legalization alongside with things like electric cars, and FSM. Anyone who knows me knows that for years I have preached both FSM and Marijuana legalization.
It really….almost brings to a tear to my eye.
Anyway, I’m off to get a copy of this Rolling Stone.
Rock moosic, hooch and the heathen worship of made up monsters will not help you win favor with the heavenly father. Repent or face the certain possibility of eternal suffering in the fires of Hades.
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Uh, pro-life policies are killing women, men and children worldwide. The bottom line of pro-life is never pro-baby because these people supporting do northing to help the mother during or after her pregnancy and often shame her about being pregnant, even if she was raped. They will endanger a woman’s life and health for the sake of a non-viable fetus and deny her any choice about getting pregnant, limiting her family size, protecting herself from sexual diseases and being able to see sex as a healthy, normal activity that she has every right to enjoy or refuse at her choosing. Pro-life policies turn women into wombs on legs, health care providers into criminals for wanting to help a women in need and coat hangers and cleaning fluid into the only resort to end an unwanted pregnancy. Pro-life also blatantly lies about pregnancy, sexual diseases, fetal development, the frequency of abortion (there aren’t that many women GETING pregnant, let alone ending their pregnancies), so any information you get from them is at best suspect and at worse outright lies, much like intelligent design.
Besides, “Man = person. Woman = person. Samey = samey”. At least I’d hoped.
Very neat! Congrats!
I apologise in advance because I know this is off topic, but Captain Shplane…
Pro-life? you have thought about it logicaly and all that, but answer me this.
If a 15 year old girl gets raped and becomes pregnant, do you think she should have to drop out of school and raise the child of her rapist and ruin her life further because she can’t afford it, and is forced to get by on welfare?
If you think that in this situation it would be ok for her to have an abortion, what other situations are acceptible? Where do you draw the line?
shplane, I do think a further discussion on the pro-life/pro-choice debate would further your understanding of the topic. (I´m pro-choice myself because I don´t think a cell heap that will eventually evolve into a human being has a “right” for existence, but this isn´t the place for that discussion.)
otherwise, how can you be a Pirate and shun good old piratey smoking pipes? Or Cigars, for that matter? ;)
Cells don’t have consciousness, and fetuses, only in the late stages, develop some kind of reaction. Women can die from pregnancies that go to full term so the have to abort. And it could also be just financially impossible. Why would a baby even want a life that will most likely be pretty shitty. How about stem cells, with a potential human life, an egg and a pice of skin, they can clone stem cells for research. Also, on smoking, although I’m not a smoker or a pot head, I believe that it is the people’s right to do as they wish as long as it doesn’t put others at an UNNECESSARY risk. So do you also not support the right to die? Because if these people smoking are killing themselves, why do you care?
I’m sorry, shplane, but there are more than enough reasons for the pro-choice movement. Consider, for a moment, where most of these abortions come from. Is it upper class citizens who are out neglecting themselves and their way of life, or perhaps the less informed and the less provided for? The latter not only produces more teenage pregnancies and abortions, but it also is the source of more criminals and murderers. Perhaps one of those babies that gets aborted would be the next Martin Luther King, but maybe too it would have been the next Charlie Manson. Either are likely, but one is more likely than the other. Not gonna go Swiftian on you here, but the poor are the ones who lead the numbers that you’re professing.
Too, this world is over populated and we’re just not having enough wars to thin ourselves down enough. Perhaps the need for limiting the number of children we can have has come upon us…
Captain Shplane, I agree with you that abortion should generally be prohibited. With one exception, - unless the woman wants one!
Are you against the birth control pill too? Because this method of contraception is technically an abortion. If life begins at fertilization , the pill aborts this by preventing implantation in the uterus.
it stinks that a discussion of good news is ruined by people trying to preach their morals. Totally going against what the FSM stands for…
Booby please let us know with a big news item once that statue gets erected! A roadtrip to Crossville, Tennessee will then be in order for all Pastafarians. Maybe we can have a spaghetti cookout down there or something. Of course the bible thumpers down there may not take too kindly to Pastafarians invading their town and they could turn it into an ugly scene from Easy Rider or a Billy Jack movie. Christians can be such loving people when they perceive of anything critical of their God (NOT!).
This is really amazing, as a Canadian i am glad to be a part of helping people discover the true america.
RAmen to all
@Cleetus Van Damme, You will be fine my friend…Tennessee is in fact a secret pirate stronghold because I believe that long ago a large group of pirates journeyed up the Mississippi River, and established a “secret cove” of pirate affluence.
¡Groovy!
This issue of Rolling Stone just came out in Holland. Being curious what this FSM was all about, I decided to have a look on your website. I must say, miracles DO happen: i am in instant convert!
Harrrr
While I support Pastafarianism and Evolution, Waxman is otherwise a cockbag. The only salute he’ll get from me involves one finger.
YES YES YES!!! WE NEED MORE CELEBRITY PASTAFARIANS!! FSM BLESS YOU ALL!
I like the idea of the spaghetti cookout - cannibalism has a long tradition in many religions!! Of course I’ll bring the beer volcano and the tub of marinara for the baptisms