This is rediculous, just another way for atheists to attempt to make fools out of people who actually have something to believe in.
Enjoy your spaghetti in hell assholes.
CRITICIZE AWAY
-SpaghettiEater
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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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Just becuse we are a diffrent religon we are ganna burn in hell?
So the buddests,and ect. are ganna burn in hell becuse we dont belive in this “god” of yours??
And just becuse your name is SpaghettiEater, well Its just dumb……..
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YAAARGH!! That is all.
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I’m pastafarian,for me there’s no hell.But i’ll enjoy spaghetti on friday.
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I put it to you, sir, that your violent reaction to our belief is a direct product of your own doubts as to whether or not your belief is founded. If you can not see that our belief has just as much validity as your own than it is likely that you doubt the validity of your own belief, but since you have clung to it all your life it is too unbearable to admit that both religions are equally valid. Because our belief differs only, in essence, from yours in the fact that we believe in His Great and Benevolent Noodliness, it illustrates quite clearly that both beliefsystems are equally ridiculous. I therefore put it to you that your violent reaction is irrefutable proof of the weakness of you own faith. If you truly believe, then no argument we make or thing we say should affect you in the slightest. But is has, thus proving the instability of your faith.
To believe in something, is to accept that which you believe in as Truth. If one has faith in that Truth, there is no need to slight those with different versions of Truth, since one can be content in the fact that one is correct in his belief. The need to convert others or debase other faiths is merely a herd reaction. You may feel silly believing something, but if enough others believe it too, it seems less silly. I beseech you to look inside yourself and discover the true heart of your faith, and accept it. You will no longer feel the to bother others with it.
May His Noodliness help you find your peace in faith. rAmen.
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Hell has pizza and pasta.
Your “god” gave you bread a fish.
We win!
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Once again, it is apparent that if you want rational discourse, read not the letters TO the Pastafarians, but those OF the Pastafarians.
So, I shall read from the letter of ET to the Pastafarians (#26), wherein he states
“The reason these imbeciles all parrot the same gibberish when they come here to try to insult us is that they are incapable of original thought, so they simply regurgitate the same tired old phrases.”
True that: the most literate of our detracting visitors love to quote from the BuyBull in order to sound learned. I suppose if the quote is obscure enough, it MAY sound deep.
Then there is this reading from Drake:54 where he talks about the violent reactions of (FSM) non-believers. Yes, I have noticed this oddity, too. If you differed with someone else’s choices of food, fashion, hobby, music, sports team or even politics they might just shrug it off. But doubt their religion and just watch their panties bunch up. Drake, I believe you’re right in that they can NOT face the fact they just have invested too much in a fantasy.
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i totally agree with 55. also, we’re not here to make fun of your religion. at all. we’re here because we want to worship he Noodliness. you’re saying that YOUR religion is OK but our’s isn’t? we DO have something to believe in dipshit. God makes no attempt to prove that he is real but FSM shows up now and again. and actually, according to this christian dude, Jimi Hendrix, MLK jr, and all of my heros will be in Hell so it’s gonna be fun when i get there.
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@#44 – Roxy & Sienna
You’ve never tried to feel spaghetti (or anything, for that matter) to a toddler, have you?
-Sarah
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This is sooo stupid. The religion is real!
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more blind rage from backwoods dead weight gorillas.
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I’m sorry to say this but any Christian who takes the FSM seriously is very ignorant, probably lacks faith in themselves, has poor reasoning skills and is most likely retarded.
If you are too stupid to read the letter to the Kansas school board, and appreciate the sarcasm, irony and emphasis on the lack of evidence for christianity I condescend to and pity you. If you think that FSM is pathetic and unlikely, then it is very hypocritical to think that Christianity is anymore likely, since FSM has all of the evidence that it exists as much as Christianity has evidence that it too exists. So in denying the word of FSM you deny the word of Christianity unless you believe in Christianity simply because Christians have used violence over the past two milleniums to fear people into Christianity such as the miraculous discovery of hell to threaten people to the belief of god. And because of the large numbers of people who believe in Christianity, you do also because you lack the intelligence to have faith in your self or understand the theories of evolution so you ignore them?
If you look at all of the smarter people in the world you will recognise that they are atheists… because they understand that the concepts of Christianity are profound and extremely unlikely, so much though that the Genius of Bobby Henderson replicated the concepts of christianity as a parody to mock and make clear how unlikely your beliefs are – if god was perfect it would be impossible for imperfection to exist in any sense and we would all be perfect and thus there would be no crime and everyone would get on in harmony. However, this is not the case. I know that most Christians lack the brain power to conceive the relationship between intelligence and believing in Christ, with the more intelligent not believing in him since we are equally likely to go to hell for not believing that I am your god and thus I submit you to pennance in my hell for eternity. So, please stop with the comments about the people who ‘believe’ in FSM, because we don’t believe in it and the irony is that ‘we’ are stupid when you do not even realise that we are mocking YOU.
Lastly, I would like to say that there was not much point in taking my time to write this since theists will either ignore what I have said and only read what they want to read and disgard the rest or secretly know that God does not exist but continue to think so because you feel emptiness in your life. TO ALL CHRISTIANS: Be honest to yourself, you are not exactly the smartest in your place of work or place of education are you? I didn’t think so. If you do not, or did not perform well academically you have no reason to feel you are right because you are probably proven wrong and were proven wrong many times in education and life and most things probably confused you. So take it from someone who is likely much smarter than you… GOD DOES NOT EXIST.
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win.
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oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! you said a bad word!! T.T Your going to hell! may the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on your soul!!!
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Comment 61. Ha ha thats my brother (we have the same parents) and what he said i agree with 100%. If we live in a world where a person could try to rape, torture and kill every person on the planet (but only managed to do this to half of them) then ask Jesus for forgiveness he would be a holy man and go to Heaven. BUT, if a person saved the other half of the world’s population, by preventing the evil person from killing them all, saving around 3 and a half billion lives, and was generally the nicest person in the world, but did not believe in Jesus, then he would go to Hell.
Seriously people, can any sane person look at that situation and say that is the correct outcome? There are so many different religions, how can they all possibly be correct? They cannot. Christians do not believe in any other religions nor their gods. Does that mean Christians should go to Christian Heaven and every other religion’s Hell? What proof do Christians have of God other than a Bible written by MAN. And if it was written by how God intended it to be written, must it not all be true? This means that Adam and Eve existed. Which would make us all INBRED. Incest is a sin is it not? Then why would God leave Adam and Eve and their children no other option than to inbreed? This would also make the story of “Noah’s Ark” true. How could two of every single species of animal fit onto a boat. There are millions of different species known to man, let alone the rest of them. According to Christianity there is no such thing as evolution. Explain dinosaurs. Explain the different species of dog which man helped create from wolves. That is proof of Evolution. There are many, many “hard” facts that prove the bible wrong. But not one proving that it’s all actually the truth.
Religion is a bad thing any way. Millions and millions of people have died directly and indirectly because of religion. Religion is like a gun. It’s mankind making the guns and pulling the trigger. It’s man kind making the religions and killing because of them. GUNS AND RELIGIONS ARE EXCUSES FOR MURDER AND MEANS OF DOING IT. Example: George Bush invaded Iraq because God told him to in a dream. A hell of a lot people died because of that dream.
IF GOD IS SO POWERFUL, WHY DID IT TAKE HIM SIX DAYS TO MAKE THE EARTH, AND WHY DID HE NEED ONE DAY TO REST?
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You know what’s ridiculous, the fact that you can’t spell RIDICULOUS! Seriously if your going have a go at someone or something at least make sure your spellings correct!
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@#56 – TheFewThe ProudThe Marinara
I have to disagree with you on one point. My life experience has taught me that many people simply cannot tolerate disagreement of ANY form. You think a religious nut gets their panties in a bunch when you disagree with them? Try telling a SF Giants fan you like the Dodgers. Or tell a metalhead you don’t enjoy Slayer.
You’d be surprised the kinds of looks people give me when I tell them I don’t like onions. Some people look at me like I just grew a new set of eyeballs in my forehead.
It seems to me that many people are hell bent on homogeneity – they can’t sleep knowing that someone, somewhere, thinks differently, talks differently, acts differently than them. When you dare tell them that you don’t agree with them… well, you’ve read plenty of mail form plenty of those people.
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To quote Jean-Luc(64) “Christians do not believe in any other religions nor their gods. Does that mean Christians should go to Christian Heaven and every other religion’s Hell?”
Now that, my friends and colleagues, is a very interesting thought. If no religion > other religions, then every person of religious beliefs goes to both heaven (theirs) and hell (everyone else’s). If this is true, then clearly, religious belief of any sort is a losing proposition. You can only occupy one heaven, but (depending on your exact count and what qualifies as a religion) you will suffer in multiple hells.
It is almost enough to make me want to give up the Noodly Path, lest I fall afoul of the various other belief systems. Still, come to think of it, after a quick perusal of most well known belief systems reveals that only xianity and islame really threatens eternal torment, most of the rest let you lie around waiting for some future event, or they doom you back into the material world.
Given that the material world is where I encounter the phenomenon of spaghetti and beer and strippers – even though not perfectly Noodly versions – then I’m opining that the belief of the great FSM is the most logical way to go. You will enjoy perfect beer and strippers in Pastafarian Heaven, imperfect ones in the material plane (courtesy of the various karmic/reincarnation beliefs), and one really hot place (xian hell) and one that may be really gold (islame, depending on your interpretation).
Still, the vast majority of your existences will have the opportunity for enjoyment of pirates, noodles, wenches and beer. Take that, Pascal’s Wager!
PC
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I thought, dear SpaghettiEater, your God taught you to respect all other religions and accept those.
What you are doing now, is a sin. YOU are the one who will burn in Hell for wishing that we burn in Hell.
Vriendelijk groet,
FLJ P.
PS.i apologize for my very, very crappy, confused English.
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AH YOU’RE SO TOTALLY RIGHT BABE !
=D
do you want 2 eat spaghetti tonight ? please reply xD
and you guys have 2 search »immediately« a life please, do it for the FSM .
i’ll help you with the first step:
http://www.google.nl
may God bless you all
- ryana
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I mean, PASTAFARIAN? what in the world ??…!
You could not invent better
and i appoligize me 4 my bad english because i’m not from england / america
but a friend send me this shit xD and we had laugh our teeth out our mouth
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Um…
Yes, we do make fools of you, but not because you “actually have something to believe in,” as you may like to think…
It’s because you feel that you need to believe in a greater power in order to validate yourself, so you can say that ‘God created humans as perfect beings!’ PERFECT BEINGS MY ASS. You sound like whiny, insecure teenagers (and I would know, given that I am one, but at least I’m the appropriate age)!!! Get a life! It’s kind of sad really, because the fact that you think there’s some guy up in the sky that if you pray to will make your life better, would normally mean you are MENTALLY UNSTABLE. You thin there is a HOLY GHOST! Go back to summer camp, kids! I mean come on!!! It’s actually mean and depressing that we insist on making fun of you, or at least it would be if you had the decency to believe in your idiocy by yourself! BUT NOOOOO, you try to convert us! You insist that we’re wrong and you’re right, and that’s the end of that! You try force your retarded-ness on us in our homes and schools and politics, when you are very clearly WRONG!!! And then you come to OUR website, just TRYING to make more trouble!!!!! I really, really hope that natural selection deals with people like you, or that you at least have protected sex, because for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT, do NOT, again, please, do NOT make more of yourself!
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@66- Yes, but try starting a website making fun of onions, and see how many e-mails you get saying things like “Enjoy your onion-free Big Mac in Hell!”
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7.
I didn’t critcize you, I win.
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We don’t make fools OUT of you who “actually have something to believe in”, but try to show how foolish it is to believe that YOUR beliefs are any less foolish than any other.
To subscribe to any Religion requires a “leap of faith” from God’s truth into teachings created by man, written into books by man, printed by man, preached by man, and sold by man as “God’s word” so that fools will take that leap.
RAmen
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@ Ryana: Glad we made you laugh. As for me, I still cannot decide whether reading the Christian bible should make us laugh out hard or be scared as hell for the crazy people who might actually believe all that crazy stuff and start killing unbelievers. At least Pastafarianism does not demand of its followers that they murder anyone.
Have a nice day and get an education.
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Erm… isn’t “Hell” supposed to be, like, really terrible? So, I mean, like, how can you enjoy anything in there?
But seriously, keep it up. And whomsoever came up with “touch by his noodly appendage” has my heartfelt thanks for giving me a quick quip that evokes all my humour on the ridiculous things people will believe. Love it!
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I’m with 65. When are people going to learn that when you can’t even spell common words that SPELLCHECK would pick up – you lose a huge amount of credibility.
But let’s face it, Noodly Fans, DOGMA is alive and well in the “great” US of A, and fanatacism is blind and deaf – and of course, a danger to any sort of rights guaranteed to us all by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
However, I entreat you to adhere to the moral and intellectual high ground here. The latter is not a problem (that’s why I love you people, you’re intelligent, you’re irreverent, and you have great senses of humor) but for those who are atheist/agnostic – I know there are many who have/do/will slam you and condemn you to hell for your (lack of) belief and it’s regrettable – I’m sorry for all the unpleasantness and ignorance you have had to navigate.
But please…remember we are ALL but specks – we have but limited ability to understand the workings of the Cosmos and because of this – there IS “faith” and “belief” because – nobody really KNOWS for sure just how it works. For me, that’s kind of part of the fun of it all. Maybe someday we’ll become enlightened and maybe we won’t.
But adhere to the moral high ground, please. Pity the small mind but don’t give in to the temptation to lob back scornful vitriole which ridicules those who have faith and belief in something because you don’t share that with them. There are so many ways of looking at the issue of “faith”…after all, isn’t it faith and trust in one another which allows us to form deep, lasting relationships?
Peace, and pass the breadsticks :)
EntropyBabe
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Let’s face it, Noodly Fans, DOGMA is alive and well in the “great” US of A, and fanatacism is blind and deaf – and of course, a danger to any sort of rights guaranteed to us all by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
However, I entreat you to adhere to the moral and intellectual high ground here. The latter is not a problem (that’s why I love you people, you’re intelligent, you’re irreverent, and you have great senses of humor) but for those who are atheist/agnostic – I know there are many who have/do/will slam you and condemn you to hell for your (lack of) belief and it’s regrettable – I’m sorry for all the unpleasantness and ignorance you have had to navigate.
But please…remember we are ALL but specks – we have but limited ability to understand the workings of the Cosmos and because of this – there IS “faith” and “belief” because – nobody really KNOWS for sure just how it works. For me, that’s kind of part of the fun of it all. Maybe someday we’ll become enlightened and maybe we won’t.
But adhere to the moral high ground, please. Pity the small mind but don’t give in to the temptation to lob back scornful vitriole which ridicules those who have faith and belief in something because you don’t share that with them. There are so many ways of looking at the issue of “faith”…after all, isn’t it faith and trust in one another which allows us to form deep, lasting relationships?
Peace, and pass the breadsticks :)
EntropyBabe
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Quasimatter (#66): You are correct in that some people will get upset with just about ANY difference from them – not just religion. But I’ve never heard of a Dodger fan being burned at the stake by Giant backers. I have a theory that all intolerance is based on 2 factors – ignorance and fear – and these are not only common in Christianity and Islam, but actually propogated by its leaders.
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Yes, I will indeed enjoy my spaghetti.
But not in hell, as I do not believe in the concept of your hell, which I assume is what you are referring to.
I will enjoy my spaghetti in utopia, lying on the slopes of the beer volcano and enjoying the sights of the stripper factory.
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I saw your group in Kiva and had to check it out. I am amused. Throughout history, Divine Beings have appeared in whatever form they need to get their message through to their intended audiences. The FSM would appeal to all Pastafarians in search of the 3 L’s: Love, Life and Laughter. If all of humanity could find the L’s, Earth would be a kinder, gentler place.
Kudos to the generosity of the FSM group for their support of Kiva. Well done!
Best wishes in your journey.
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Really? I thought everyone was trying to make fun of Pastafarians because WE actually have something to believe in…with bigger balls I might add. It must suck when you realize you have been chasing the wrong deity for the wrong reasons. An authority/dominantion/control/fear/love money grubbing cult disguised as a benevolent organization? No beer and strippers for you my freind.
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Wow….true christians JUDGE other people and their beliefs…. I knew I should have joined a christian church!
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I am eating bread and drinking wine at the moment. Oh, that’s Jesus’ blood and body right? ooohhhhh…..Well why don’t you use up your life preparing for death then.
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Uh you guys must be crazy becuase I love spaggetti to eat i’m not a cusser but im still going to say this is wrong seriosly im christian and i am a follower of god i am saying to you that people who practice this game has been fooled by the devil i mean seriously who just decides they want to worship food. Ok what I have to say is the people who worshp this thing has to know the real god who has been here from the beginig of time till the end. And im not going to say it’s a religion because barley anybody knows this game. The only reason is that I went to this website is becuase this girl in my school practices this game and everybody thinks she’s insain because she has weird stuff she says weird things that make people want to puke or get scared and attacks people with dolls and she started to talk about this and I wanted to know if it was true. People who worship this needs to get a life. I know it’s not my buisness but I am worried people are going to start worshiping my dinner. I mean who wants to worship this there is proof of christianity and no proof of a monster. And wouldn’t the spagetti have already have been spoiled and if he has powers it isn’t true I cuold just have anybody in my school eat the monster in a second. And the reason global warming is happening is becuase HUMANS are killing the enviroment by polluting. You got to think logicly really. And even if your spagetti monster did create the world wouldn’t there be giant sause blobs in places and making things or drawing things or drawing on a picture on a cloud doesn’t proof that this monster really exists. There is nothing in this world that would make me belive that this monster is real. And there is no pirates in this world now and what does pirates have to do with a spagetti monster really. All of what you wrote really wants to make me laff and I really do hope this is a joke becuase I wrote the truth not something about something sad like the spagetti monster. Who ever invented this religion were you jrunk or you just decided to worship on something dumb. It’s like if I said i’m going to worship my salad and going to spread the word. If I said that i must be sick but im am never going to worship something dumb like that. I mean what the lord has done to me he saved me he touched my hart he holds me in his arms he has millions no trillions of people following his word. I can actually feel his spirit around me when i go to school or at the mall or at home I bet your spagetti monster can’t do that. I am just proving that this whole thing is wrong!
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I love all the Christians who try to ridicule the FSM as “dinner”. Are you not the ones who make a sacrament of bread & wine as Jesus’ flesh & blood?
Actually, thinking about a plate of spaghetti, a glass of wine & some garlic bread is making me hungry…..
I think our religions are deliciously complementary.
RAmen. And BUUUURRRRPPPP!!!!
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I will enjoy my spaghetti in hell. The fire will keep it warm and tasty. yum yum
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Also, in reply to post above (Shany). I always truly love it when i get to here the phrase “there is proof of christianity”. despite the fact that there are a number of places where the gospels directly contradict each other, and despite the fact that mostly the books were written many years after the facts protrayed, and finally despite the fact that it is laughable to even consider the bible as a truly independant portrayal of a historical set of events, what truly makes me laugh is that people think that just because it seems ridiculous as opposed to Christeo-Judaic religion, Pastafarianism is far more unlikely. Is it really, and i mean REALLY any less likely, that Pastafarians are any less wrong than the rest of the world? Is a noodly god who provides beer and strippers to his followers less able to exist simply because His book was written only a few short years ago?
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YOU ALL DUMB !! =D suck my friends balls !
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how could you believe in a spaghetti monster that have made this world ?!?!?!
that’s INSANE
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Shany #85
Have you ever heard of paragraphs? Guess that don’t teach you that at Jesus Camp. Please crawl back in your hole.
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Hey Shany,
The only thing you proved was that your school has failed horribly in teaching you basic spelling, grammar and writing skills.
I have some advice for you, son. True spirituality comes only when you have been touched by His Noodly Appendages. The sensation is not like anything else, and you won’t have a clue what it is like until you experience it. The FSM is the only source of love and hope in the whole world. But you must have faith, first.
We will be more than happy to teach you more if you ever get bored with the “game” of the 3-in-1 bearded man in the sky.
Yours in Noodliness.
RAmen
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WOW, Shany, way to not get stuff! Phew, that was really a piss of work. I’m not even gonna go into details on this one. Shame on you, sir, you are commiting evolutional blasphemy.
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I Love you!!! You’re funny! Made me laugh – you must be fun to hang around with.
Peace,
Mari
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Hell’s Asshole… If I’m not mistaken thats Newark right?
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Dear poster number 85 (commonly known as Shany)
You are as informed about the relative size of numbers as you are about deities. Please note that unless you are claiming that there are vast numbers of extra-terrestrial civilizations that worship the xian god, or unless you are claiming that the insects of earth also worship the xian god, then you have achieved EPIC FAIL. There are not a trillion – let alone trillions – of people on this particular planet.
I encourage you to go to school, pay REALLY close attention in your science/math courses and then re-examine your little tirade. If that doesn’t do it for you – just copy and paste your reply into word, replace every instance of ‘christianity’ or ‘god’ with ‘pastafariansim’ and ‘FSM’ – and vice versa. Then reread your writings and hopefully you will see that you have no high ground to occupy. Unless you are high.
cheers
PC
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@#85 – Dear Shany,
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Don’t you have a bible that needs reading or a deity that need praying to? Perhaps your time would be better spent learning to spell rather than posting to this board.
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LJS
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Well, the only thing I can give you all credit for is making me hungry.
I’m definitely going to pray for all of you fervently. I am so angry right now that my judgement is likely clouded, but I just want to say that I do not hate any of you, I am just hating your mockery. And don’t go, ‘OH YA FSM ISH AS REEL AS UR GOD THO LOLZ” please. I refuse to fall for your silly jokes. Yeah, I can see you laughing there. I would witness to you, but I just don’t think I should waste my time throwing pearls to the swine. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. May God bless you and keep you from sin and your dumb pasta headed freak. Jesus loves you even if you don’t love him.
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Shany (85),
Here is my confession to you, and His Holiness; the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I was you (minus the horrible grammar). Anyone who didn’t agree with me was totally wrong because the buybull said so. I drank all the Kool-Aid. I was baptized in the holy spirit, and spoke in tongues, and danced for god. I did it all honey! I even went so far as to tell a wonderful friend of mine that he was gay because he was possessed by a demon (yes, seriously, and Brad I am eternally sorry).
Then I went to college and met a wonderful man who challenged me. We had 6 hour conversations about religion, and I began to actually ask questions. I wanted to know more, so I took a world religions class. Amazingly enough, these stories from the buybull were appearing in religions that existed 2000 years before xianity was even thought of! Then I learned that the timelines for when Jesus was supposedly born did not match my calendar. Why you ask? Because xianity was taking over pagan holidays (in short). I could feel my mind beginning to open, and it was like a glimmer of warm light. I wanted to know where it came from, so I went toward it. I took a Catholicism class, and then I took Philosophy of Religion. I ate information like a steamy plate of spaghetti with marinara! The arguments that were made in favor of god did not make sense. I began to see religion as circular logic and fear mongering. I became an agnostic. I didn’t have enough information to take that final step off the fence (and perhaps a little scared). I continued researching, debating friends (and that wonderful man who became my husband), and then a friend of mine recommended “The God Delusion”. I jumped off the fence and ran as fast as I could into the arms of the FSM. I have been touched by his Noodely Appendage, and I am now a full Pastafarian (let me spell that out for you since you have no idea what “satire” means. I am an atheist). I believed as you do. And the delusion I was living in made me do the one thing that I regret most in my life. I hurt a friend, and for this I hope that His Great Meatballness can forgive me. I was an indoctrinated child who was not given the choice on what to believe.
The bible is a book of stories that contradicts itself every step of the way, and Christianity is a mosh-posh of religions put together to control the masses with words like “hell” and “eternal damnation”. What I say may be uncomfortable to you (it definitely was to me, so I empathize with you), but it IS true.
I always teach the students in my science class one thing that I would like to share with you now. Never, ever just accept what anyone tells you. People are biased and have ulterior motives for wanting you to believe them. Ask questions. Read things that you think you “shouldn’t” (perhaps starting with the history of some other religions). Search for the truth, and think about all the facts that you have learned. Then draw a conclusion. If you say that you already know and don’t need to do that, then you will never be able to think for yourself. But my hope is that you are able to break out of this and really enjoy your ONE life on this beautiful planet that has so much to offer.
In Peace and Sauciness, RAmen,
D&WC
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@ – Shany -#85,
Listen, Shany, my child, you are illiterate, like many of the other hate mailers who come here to preach; your grammar, spelling, and punctuation are bad enough to get your English teacher fired for incompetence. There is no proof of any part of “christianity”. Do not try (mis)quoting the Bible, because I’m sure that you can’t even read it. You don’t know the language, or the politics or the economics of the time when it was written.
If you come back here, you should read the Open Letter and the material at the “About” tab before displaying your literary, philosophical, and theological ignorance. Please read also, Southern Ptarmigan’s comments (tenth down in the discussion section. S/He is a Christian evangelist who has this entire question in perspective:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=letters-may-2009&sc=DD_20090508
By the way, do you have any idea how big a “trillion” is? I suspect that you do not, and that you had better listen closely to your science teacher for that concept.
RAmen
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