I want u to sit down and think. how in the world is a food supposed to create everyone in the world? its just spaghetti and 2 meatballs. not a god. I can understand that u may like to eat the food. but it didn’t create us. oh and by the way I find ur site and religion incredibly hilarious whether your serious or not. which someything tells me u just mite be that crazy. no offense.

-Mitchell

You are the most sick, fucked up, twisted, inbreed, stupid son of a fucking whore bitch I have ever seen in my entire life. You need to seek mental help. I think you have smoked to much crack and done to much acid. Although you do have a right to religion, BUT, your religion is not recognized by the government simply because it is purely fucking stupidity. You will burn in fucking hell the rest of your god damn life you piece of shit fucking inbreed fuck!

Cody [xxxxxxx]
[xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx] College

Note – As a rule, I don’t post the identities of the hate-mailers but this guy was all for it — “Please do because my peers are on level with me on how fucking stupid you non sense bull shit is.”

Fair enough.

Update 2/4 – I found another message Cody sent me on Facebook:

Wow dude you have to be one of the gayest fucking faggots in the world. FSM is not a religion. Get off you lazy ass, wash your pits and bum hole you stinky fucking acid dropping hippie. And quit fucking your sister and the goats you kidnap so you can stop filling the world with smelly fucking hippie retards like yourself. have a nice day:)
[Cody]

I was not disappointed by Cody’s facebook page [Link Removed *]. An excerpt,

I’ve made great achievements and done many great things with my life and traveled the world. I can’t fit all my awards, achievements, and credentials on all four walls of my room. I dont mean to brag but with all that under my belt, who wouldn’t. I enjoy helping people and changing lives. I guess I seem to worry about others before I do myself. But thats another thing for God to look upon for me.

Update 2/5 – I woke up to find a pile of emails from Cody. Most angry and threatening. Legal threats, mainly. Let me just say this, to Cody: If you send a screaming rant to a stranger, be aware they have the right to publish those rants. I didn’t pluck your nonsense messages out of the ether, you sent them to me. I’m well within my rights to post those messages for the world to see.

However, in amongst those emails I found an apology, so I believe there is some humanity in Cody, and I do have some pity. I have no wish to publicly out him for the intolerant things he said. For that reason, I’m going to anonymize his last name and remove the name of his school. The post will remain but his identity will be obscured for his own protection.

Internet, perhaps you can give Cody another chance.

Update 2/5, 7pm – Wow, I’ve received a lot of emails about this post. I’ll see if I can answer some questions.

First, let me add some more messages from Cody. I assume he sent this one after he saw this post:

Hell no. Do you realize how much trouble you can be in for using my name on a website like you have or publicly identifying me?
[Cody]

And then:

A complaint has been filed with the Federal Trade Commission on your violation of internet privacy laws.
[Cody]

And then after that:

So I just found out that youre a french fucking jew. Thats why you live on an island because youre a coward. Thats what french are known for pussy ass cowards.
[Cody]

Ok, some answers. I don’t know whether Cody knows I removed his last name and school from his messages, and I don’t think it matters.

I post hate-mails mainly because it’s of interest and relevant to the Pastafarian community. And a lot of us are entertained by them.

I generally don’t post the full identify of the hate-mailers. I don’t think it accomplishes much. When I do, it’s often because they’ve told me to do it.

Inevitably after that, they demand their message be removed, and usually there’s a legal threat of some type. Legal threats don’t bother me, but something else does – this belief that the world owes it to them to look the other way.

I want to say this to the hate-mailers: You’re not anonymous. When you attack us with hate and threats, we have the right to tell the world. We don’t have to protect your identity, we don’t owe you a thing. When we grant you mercy, when we hide your identity because you are rightly ashamed of what you’ve said, it’s a respect that you haven’t earned; it’s just an act of mercy. As to your wrongly assumed right to privacy, maybe an analogy will help: If I see you kicking a dog on the street and tell the world, your reputation will likely be injured by that information becoming public, your livelihood may face serious consequences. But understand this: your act was the cause.

I guess that’s all. Oh, regarding his last message – I’m neither French nor Jewish, but I do live on an island, not that it matters.