Last updated 7/2008
Q: Who are you?
A: My name is Bobby Henderson. I’m 27. I grew up in Oregon and move around a lot. I have a physics degree and have successfully avoided a “real” job for years.
Q: Did you really send the Open Letter to the Kansas School Board?
A: Yes. But, I received no replies until after I posted the website online and the School Board started getting lots of emails about it. You can read some of the responses I received here.
Q: Are you an atheist / heathen / what?
A: I don’t have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. Teach Creationism in school, fine, but don’t teach it in a science classroom. And don’t change the definition of science so that you can teach these things. That’s retarded.
Supernatural explanations are by definition not science, so why would you teach them in a science classroom?
Religion, itself, isn’t bad. But it isn’t necessarily good, either. There are plenty of good Christians (and Muslims, and Buddhists, and Hindus), and plenty of bad ones.
Dogma is bad for everyone.
Q: You are making God angry.
A: I doubt it. If there’s a God, and he’s intelligent, then I would guess he has a sense of humor. And how do you know He is NOT a Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Q: Do you make money off this?
A: Yes. The Church makes money off T-shirts, car emblems, book sales, and occasionally donations. We are saving a lot of money and pretty soon here we’ll buy our first Pirate Ship which will serve as a floating church, open to all Believers.
Q: Your graph is messed up.
A: No, it’s not. The X-axis doesn’t have to represent time. And the data points don’t need to be in order. A graph is just a collection of data points, I can display them however I want. It might not be what you’re used to, but it’s not messed up. Please stop writing me emails about it (well over 200 at this point).
Q: There are more pirates now than ever. Look at the South Pacific. And song-downloading pirates, and blah blah blah.
A: Real pirates use swords (cutlasses, actually). Those “pirates” in the south pacific are guys with machine guns, cruising around in power-boats. They’re not pirates. And the song-downloading “pirates” are smelly nerds, and therefore not real pirates.
Q: Your grammar/spelling/etc is bad.
A: Yah.
Q: You’re wrong. It’s actually a linguini / mashed potato / dinosaur / elephant / whatever monster.
A: Maybe He just disguises Himself as those things. Also, you’re not funny.
Q: Can I reprint your letter?
A: Yes. Send me a link, please.
Q: Acceptible use of content?
A: It’s ok with me if you’re using the FSM images/content as long as it’s not for profit, and you’re doing it to further the Cause of the church. I.e. printing out FSM propaganda materials and distributing them is ok (and encouraged). Making FSM t-shirts, selling FSM merchandise, etc. is NOT OK.
Q: What blogging/cms software are you using?
A: The recently redesigned site is built on the Wordpress platform with the K2 template.
Q: How many members are there?
A: I don’t know. There are no membership records as such, so I can only guess based on the amount of traffic the site receives, etc. Traffic to date (September 2006) is somewhere in the vicinity of 350 million hits, and around 15 million unique visitors. Google returns close to 2 million results for the phrase “flying spaghetti monster“. So, who knows – your guess is as good as mine.
Q: Why Pirates?
A: We believe that humans evolved from pirates. Consider that humans share around 95% DNA with monkeys, and more than 99.9% DNA with pirates.
Q: Interview requests
A: I’m happy to answer your questions. I recommend you just send me your questions in an email with a subject that I’ll notice, like “INTERVIEW QUESTIONS”. You don’t need to ask permission or set up an interview for some future time, just send me the questions. Thanks.
Q: Website statistics
A: Somewhere around 10k-40k visitors per day, and somewhere around 500k-1million hits a day. Hits are extremely high because lots of people hotlink images,etc from the site. Which is fine w/me.
Emails – depends, but 50 per day is not uncommon. I have 13,839 unread emails right now (9/25/06). I’ll get to as many as I can.
Q: Why is there an FSM banner on my MySpace profile?
A: It’s a virus/worm that WAS NOT CREATED BY ME. I had nothing to do with it. I’m sorry – it caused everyone a lot of problems, and I do not approve of this sort of thing. You can remove it by following the directions here.
More questions? Ask me below, or email me at bobby.henderson@gmail.com
I think only the religious followers who are, not to offend, dumb enough to feel insulted by this website are illiterate. Yes, though, most of their syntacs singes my eyes.
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Yea O’brothers and O’sisters…..spread the marinara and pass the beer!!! May it’s noodly appendage wriggle forevermore……
And these semi-literate religious types think we’re the oddballs? Their priests wear either a little beany hat or a foot long mitre of suspicious proportions, dress up in heavy robes, chant in a foreign language swing a silver ball full of foul smelling burning weeds and walk up and down splattering people with water using a sprig of rosemary………….making them do calisthenics.
We, on the other hand get to wear stylish and comfortable pirate wear(or lay back buck naked), alternatively roll our RRRs, kick back and suck down pasta, sauce and beer…..and we’re spreading the good word at the same time….Veni, vidi, Gwelp! (I came. I ate, I belched)
May his noodles never be underdone….
Ra-Ah-Mehnnn
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This is without a doubt, the MOST retarded website i’ve ever encountered…
what kind of f*cking moron would actually believe the world was created by a spaghetti monster or pirates are related to global temperature??
anyone who has a part of this FSM sh1t that isn’t criticizing it, is nearly as retarded as the concept of the universe being created by a flying spaghetti monster
unfortunately i cant type all day, and therefore its not possible to fully express the infinite stupidity of this entire ‘religion’
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i will spread the word of the flying spaghetti monster, so everyone can see your outrageously moronic beliefs , laugh at you and add to your growing collection of hate mail.
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Hi matty :) Want a beer? It helps you know! I like you! Want to play scrabble?
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Well, thank you Matty for spreading our beliefs although I don’t know who you’ll spread them to as it is doubtful if people actually talk to you. By the way, do you have some type of disorder that makes you impulsivly type a character on the upper numberpad whenever you curse? I laugh at us too and I must agree that the hatemail is quite hilarious.
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Mmmmmm Beeeerrrrrr
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Beer is good! That’s just one letter away from God! Coincidence? That’s what they want you to believe.
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Alchemist, Lizard Overlord HQ, London. The Voice of The BeeBeeSee.
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I didn’t know about this. I feel horrible. I ate the FSM for dinner…
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fsm sucks. there’s no substantial proof!
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Dale – true, but that is why they call it faith.
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no this is no faith. the only faith is the faith in God which is three spirits in one.
THIS IS FAITH not the belief in some bunch of pasta
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Dale – You really should look up the definitions of a couple of words. Start with faith and end with tolerance.
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I respect your belief in your god (yes, small g), please respect my belief in the FSM.
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Don’t try to save me, please don’t. It will end with you looking like a dope.
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ok then stay infedels it’s your problem
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This is hilarious. It’s great to read the hate mail and see how worked up Christians get over just a little fun and satire. Some even seem to be taking this seriously. I love the randomness of a flying spaghetti monster. Excellent work!
-Holly
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Christian
” Let’s get the evidence on the table, and then decide whether the evidence for one is better than the evidence for the other.”
The evidence table is bare on both sides. That’s entirely the point. There is no evidence for your faith to be based on. What you consider evidence (your emotional judgement) is simply more faith. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a mirror of Jesus/God. Can’t you see that? If you have faith you can believe anything, anything at all, even without evidence or even logic. Self delusion is very popular but highly overrated. Try common sense, which is highly underrated. Don’t be afraid to not believe. If lightning strikes you, there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for it.
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“infedels”??
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actually, I’m a pirate!!
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You’re an infidel!
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You’re a stupid little stupid too.
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Stupidhead
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christian- there is absolutly no evidence that your god and jeasus exists.all you have is faith, dogma, and some old book.
we have facts, evidence, the FSM, a cooler heaven, a sense of humor, and a NEW book.
checkmate.
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RAmen to all.
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beastlt12 – no need to name call. Dale is confused by your big words.
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@ LOPF – And wenches! Don’t forget we have wenches! :)))
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how could i forget! *slaps myself* and pirates too!
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@one-eyed
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Please, excuse me. I let my emotions get the best of me. Next time I’ll just count to 10 and say “Arrrrgh”
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rAmen
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I’ve been a beleiver since that southpark episode.
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I’ve been converted! I believe the FSM is the creator!
I also believe they world isn’t flat, it is round…..like a plate of pasta.
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lord of fish pirate person uhh jesus existed they found his body no proof saying hes the mesiah but he existed. Uhh christians dont have dogma…an old book is far more evidence than a new book, heaven according to christians is paradise so basicly there is no better heaven…yeah i guess there is no proof that god exists, as well as the flying speghetti monster. yep so many facts and evidence full of bull, and so christians dont have a sence of humor? thats basicly 1/5 of the world, and 4/5 at least of comedians. Oooh and one more thing, there are new versions of the bible.
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@ Axel – What?
Who found his body? I thought it had ascended into heaven?
Why is an old book more evidence than a new book?
What is the relevance of there being new versions of the Bible then – I thought the old one was infallible? So why do you have new ones?
And of course “Christians don’t have dogma” Ahahahahahahahaha!
*sigh – Booty wipes a tear away from her eyes* – the old ones are the best :)
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@Axel
“Uhh christians dont have dogma…an old book is far more evidence than a new book”
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Such a fine example of christian ‘reasoning’. When you were in high school and your teacher told you to redo an assignment of writing a report, did you refuse to do it? According to your ‘reasoning’ the original version of your report, which you teacher rejected because of the numerous flaws, was older than the one you would produce if you redid the report. So the old report is better than the new one?.
Thanks Axel for another confirmation that being atheist is nothing to be ashamed about in terms of intelligence. Whereas living by faith…..well……
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Can I eat pasta without making the FSM angry? Or is pasta eating a way of worshipping?
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Consuming a plate of pasta is only surpassed in holiness by drinking beer or wearing a pirate costume. So go for it :p
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@Axel:
Note that the original Bible is not in English. It’s in Latin. To add to this, it’s Ecclesiastical Latin, not Classical Latin, so the pronunciation and some other grammatical things about it are different from Classic Latin.
My point is, it’s still not English. So, there are some things that may not be what the original Bible intended. Hey, it could also be one huge metaphor. Who knows?
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@Etay
“Note that the original Bible is not in English. It’s in Latin. To add to this, it’s Ecclesiastical Latin, not Classical Latin, so the pronunciation and some other grammatical things about it are different from Classic Latin.”
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Actually, it’s more complicated still. The Old Testament (Thora to the Jews) was originally in Hebrew. That was then translated to Greek, the more common language around the Eastern Medditeranean at the time. From there is was translated into other languages. The Hebrew-Greek translation gave rise to one particularly often-repeated folly. In the Hebrew book of Isaiah it said ‘A young woman will give birth’. This was translated into ‘A virgin will give birth’ in Greek. And lo and behold, before you know it you’ve got two millennia of worshipping the virgin Mary. This is well-know, but the churches don’t like to hear of it of course. A bit like how it took the Vatican over 350 years to admit the earth is not the immoveable centre of the universe. How silly many christians are.
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Well first of all you are all crazy and insane if u believe in a Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM).Secondly where is your proof of a FSM..huh?..when there is proof of Christ.Thirdly Did uhh your “spaghetti monster” die for your sins?…..didnt think so…and Fourthly ur deiceiving so many people…your just some fat guy that never leaves his house and eats spaghetti daily…so i’ve got 3 words for you….GET A LIFE.
p.s,dont make anything up like the rest of your crazy comments..give me a reasonably answer.
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i’ve got this funny feeling … oh, i don’t know, that maybe this isn’t bobby henderson?
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“Bobby Henderson Aug 25th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
p.s,dont make anything up like the rest of your crazy comments..give me a reasonably answer.”
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ROTFLMFAO!
Was that reasonably enough?
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sounds a bit fake
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Bobby could be testing our faith…
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insert your crazy made up reasonably comments here
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I was wondering, if I convert to the Church of the FSM, will I still be able to enjoy a nice plate of pasta? Or am I ONLY allowed to eat pasta and its assorted condiments and accoutrements? Are all the varieties of pasta ok / not ok? And what of sauces? Is Barbeque Sauce a heathen heretical abomination as some people say? Clockwise twirling or anti-clockwise? Bowl or plate? Are meatballs manditory?
Can you please give us some dietary guidelines for true members of the Church of the FSM? Thank you.
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@Expie
Welcome to the church of the FSM. And thank you for taking some of your time to ponder the important questions you ask in your post. They are worth serious attention indeed.
Fortunately we have very few rules and even fewer (if any?) dogmas. So eat what you like. Just beware of macaroni. Macaroni itself is not bad, but just make sure you’re not lured into the ranks of the macaroni’ites. They are a horribly misguided group of people who claim our hydro-carbon based deity is made out of macaroni. The idea that the universe, the earth and life on earth was created by a bunch of macaroni with meatballs in between is of course utterly ridiculous. Everyone who has been touched by His noodly appendages knows He is made of spaghetti, not macaroni.
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Thanks DutchPastaGuy,
It’s kinda obvious really, when you think about it. Whoever heard of macaroni with meatballs? Personally I’m kinda wary of macaroni anyway. Have you ever tried to eat that stuff? You need a spoon. A SPOON!!! Enough said, I think.
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I like macaroni in minestrone.
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ftp://ftp.hipaigow.com/pub/files/heymac20.zip
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Beware the gnocchi, it is not pasta. gnocchi is the potato lovers trying to invade the spaghettideitie’s parade
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What about ravioli? where does ravioli fit in with all this. Or Pierogies? I need to know. I’m very confused and more than a little nervous. I want to go to heaven and drink beer but need to know if there is indeed a road to salvation.
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Ceardan, ravioli is made from pasta so that’s OK. Just a different shape and form from spaghetti :) Pierogies, not sure, what are those?
Spaghetti is always best of course.
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S’pose I should fess up….I’m a fettaccine girl at heart. Never with meatballs either. Forgive me O Great Noodley One :p)
As penance I shall endeavor to occasionally drink more beer …. instead of Vodka, Tequila, Jack Daniels, wine ect. ect. ect.
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I’ve looked them up. Pierogi don’t qualify as pasta. But sound delicious.
I don’t think the FSM wants us to stop eating anything. He’d be happy if you thought of him when eating pasta and if you did that on Friday that would be great.
Don’t feel under any pressure. We’re completely against dogma in all its forms.
In fact some people think you should be ex-communicated if you become in the least bit dogmatic.
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Pastafarians ahoy!
I just stumbled on a strange ad, and I’d like to know if it’s fake or real. In both cases I think it shows a particular bad taste, but that will have to do with my being a European…
http://www.wtcproof.com/?cid=285029&gclid=CMGNvZPHgo4CFREDWAod2Qv4LQ
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@۞ Aug 27th, 2007 at 3:29 am “Don’t feel under any pressure. We’re completely against dogma in all its forms. In fact some people think you should be ex-communicated if you become in the least bit dogmatic.”
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Moreover, it can’t be stressed enough that we absolutely don’t tolerate intolerance!
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Jean Bart
“I think it shows a particular bad taste, but that will have to do with my being a European…”
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Nope….I too think it shows very bad taste….*sigh*
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@Jean Bart
I kinda like it…a coin with a pop up is new and the silver is genuine WTC debris recovered from ground zero itself!!!…that’s pretty exciting…with father’s day comming up, along with the 6th aniversary of the carnage, it’s a thought provoking, patriotic, commemoration of the 1000’s of men and women who toiled at ground zero looking for silver…*wabbit wipes tear*
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Heeeeeelllllooooooo Wenchy!!!!! *wabbit wags tail*
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