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
Could some one please explain the rationale behind the pirate fish?
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As a confused teenager that never quite had a religion I really appriciate the FSM coming into my life.
I happend apon him looking for a darwin fish emblum for my new car on ebay, and then I saw the FSM emblum.
I just had to find out what its about.
I finally feal like i’m where i belong, and will pass this information on to all my friends and family.
:D
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yarrrrg, A blight on one nigh parmigiana that passeth it not round the galley
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Before i found your site I was a firm atheist, and was teased by my friends. Now that i have converted to Pastafarianism my life has meaning again. thank you. oh, btw a message to christians. FIND A RELIGION THAT DOSENT WORSHIP AN IMAGE OF TORTURE, YA SADISTS!
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I just wanted to let you know i used your letter and “religion” in my essay and presentation in english on why creationism should not be taught alongside evolution in science classes… my english teacher loved it. the extremely religious people in my class? not so much. :]
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i have glanced over this site many years ago and it caught somewhat of my attention, i return and see the place filled with many pastafarians, it makes me happy to see this which is why i’ve converted, it was recomended by my freind at lunch and when i opend my lunch i found the spaghetti monster staring at me with his delicate meaty eyes. once i worshiped him it disapeared and a message said “convert”. so here i am. i would like to thank the founder for inspiring me and opening my eyes up to the noodly apendage. thank you
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As you know, you’re free to believe in what you want but I pray that God the father, the creator the one who sent Jesus to earth through emaculate conception to live and die for the sins of the world has mercy on your soul. You’ve put so much effort into denying Christ it’s scary to even be on your site. I see you do have a following….I saw the FSM sign on a car in the parking lot at work and had to come look it up to see what it meant. That’s what makes me pray for you. You don’t have a clue and are totally lost even though you think you’ve got it all together. Again, God have mercy on your soul. If you are breathing, it’s never to late to repent.
PS…. Christians CAN prove that God is real. You can too. Take a deep breath………now push that breath out……… do it again…… you still here? THAT’S GOD!!
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I was Baptist as a teenager and considered myself a “Jesus freak” at that time. I now believe that God can be found in all religions. I’m not so sure that there is a hell because hell doesn’t really fit into the concept of a loving compassionate God. While I am a “born again” Christian due to my “Jesus freaky” past, I don’t really buy into it anymore. “Choose me as your savior or burn for all eternity” just doesn’t seem like something the Jesus that I believe in would say or endorse. I am still more of a Christian than anything else, but I do have an interest in the teachings of other religions and will take from them what I feel would help me on my spiritual path. I am not totally sure about your noodly God, but I so love pasta that I won’t turn my back on the idea. As a vegitarian I do have some issue with the meat balls. What does your FSM feel about vegitarianism and is there a vegitarian friendly image of Him?
Thank you for your time and my the God of your understanding be with you always!
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I was a christian, raised….Thank pasta my parents are open minded people who let our logic rule our lives. So yeah….I was a christian until the age of about 8, maybe 10. My little brother is a christian, he chooses to go to church like 4 times a week. (my parents don’t)
So, I just wanted to thank His great noodlyness for gifting me with such a great upbringing. Just proving we all can live together, despite our beliefs.
I just discovered pastafarianism yesterday.
And the first thing I did after calming down from laughing my ass off, was to order a hardcover copy of the gospel.
AND….in the short period of 18 hours of being a pastafarian, I have already spread the word and pulled in one more member to the cause.
I just know this will make his holy noodlyness happy with me, maybe even bring the world’s temp. down a little?
Thank you for opening my eyes, so that I may open eyes of others.
May his noodly appendage touch you and yours my new found brothers and sisters.
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Wow!!! I have never seen such a wide range of responses on any other website or forum.I would just like to comment on what you said about the supernatural not being science.It is only disqualified from scientific exploration if it is proven not to exist.Anything that truly exists is worthy of scientific exploration.The assumption of nonexistence of the supernatural is itself a religious belief.All I have to say is…if you live like there is no GOD…then you BETTER be right!!
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And if you live like there is a God, and it turns out that there isn’t….wouldn’t you feel like you’ve wasted the only time you have?
If there is no afterlife, then this is the only one we’ve got. And if there is a (christian) God, he wouldn’t mind what I believe in, as long as I live to help others and use my time on earth for the good of mankind. And if He does mind, and sends me to hell JUST for not believing in Him (even though I am a good person), then I would be glad I lived my life like I did, because such a God wouldn’t be worth my time/life anyway.
Believing in God isn’t what makes you a good person. Just being a good person is what makes you a good person, and there are no other factors in that equation.
He is either not real or not all good, whatever the case may be I can’t go wrong. btw, don’t counter this logic with ”faith” and ”He’s the only one that can judge your life”, remember I was a christian for years, I know the rules, and by THOSE rules I choose to not follow them (isn’t it great how we’ve got freewill? ;D )
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what does the flying spaghetti monster say of “moshing” with no music playing at the time of said mosh
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Let’s see now: I could be a Christian and eat the body of my god and drink his blood in church. Or I could be a Hindu and pray to a god with an elephant head and another with a monkey head, and 300 million others. Or I could be a Moslem and go kill me some Jews. Or I could be a Jew and go kill me some Moslems. Or I could shave my head and become a Buddhist, and behave like an idiot.
Thanks for the options, I’d rather have the deity with the noodly appendages. One question though: did He create me? Did He create me the way that I am? Why, that’s great, so nothing is my fault at all. I love it.
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Quick question Bobby…
But first, I have a comment… Awesome awesome totally unbelievably fantastic use of irony. Nicely done. I love the graph.
Now the question. I have recently come into possesion of a list of local Jehovah’s Witnesses addresses (please no one ask how.. it’s not a nice story, and I wouldn’t want to use the internet to poison any innocent minds). Would His Noodliness disapprove at all if I went to their houses at 7 on a Saturday morning and shared the truth with them? Also, can I print out sections of the website, bind them into a low cost magazine I’m planning on calling “Whichpasta” and leave copies lying around public libraries, phone booths, and internet cafes?
I eagerly await a reply.
Ramen
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Do you REALLY believe all this? I mean, it all really sounds like a joke. I get Buddism, Christiany, Judaism, Shinto, Hinduism, ect and I honestly think the flying spagetti monster was just made up. I mean, what the fuck does pirates have to do with some noodle thing? Was this made up when people were high or stoned on drugs? I’m totally serious
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Lindsay, how dare you mock our religion. Thankfully we are not…well…members of any other religion where you could be cast into a pit and stoned for being a heretic. We are truly touched by his Noodly Appendage and welcome converts to our peaceful, tranquil way of existence.
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I have a question. Since Christmas is a judeo-christian holiday, I assume Pastafarians do not celebrate it. Is there one major Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday that comes at this time of year? (My apologies if this is somewhere on the site … I haven’t been able to find it…”
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We are Pastafarians, we get Chef Boyardee’s birthday off which is a floating holiday. Take the day off whenever you feel like it.
Ciao (chow)
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I wonder if this FSM approves of the other religions then, if God could be the FSM. Is this “religion” as it is called as strict to rules, like dress sense, marriage, etc as Muslims, Christians, Budhists etc… ?
I wonder.
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Jesteście tu wszyscy pojebani. Pogięło was kompletnie.
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Get me an ale wench, or the lord shall smite ye! what will it be loves? death? or the plank?? either way the sharks will have ye corpses- and you’ll soon be a friend o davey jones and the FSM. now get back to yer cabin boy chores! filthy swashbucklers!
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Sexism and Monsterism:
How can you be sure that the FSM is a male divinity: it’s unclear from your drawing, but is one of those noodly appendages actually a –ahem– certain gender-specific appendage?
Supporting the female hypothesis: pasta is a feminine noun in Italian. (And one of your other commentators observes “meaty breasts”…) Maybe the Monster is bi-gendered…)
Speaking of things Italian: has the Vatican commented on this new challenge to its realm of religious influence?
After all, when Jesus said “small is the gate and narrow is the way that leads unto life, and few there are that find it” he might have been referring to a spaghetti noodle…
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OK, I kinda see your point….I do not believe in god because it makes no sense to me…..I like science and facts but I also believe in spiritual beings and things past the physical universe. Obviously I would not believe in a Flying ball of spaghetti either. But I think (just my own thoughts) that if anything, we as a spiritual collective made earth…..I think we are capable of creation….even if we do not remember it… even if we forgot that we used to have such powers. So what does FSM believe then? Or are you free to believe what you want about this in FSM?
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Well, this is a great idea. Monty Python could make up something similar :D (I know FSM is not made up, it just IS).
you might succeed with this theory here in the Czech Republic, where 80% of population is atheist, so maybe they’ll be glad to find a new religion!
and don’t forget you have a competition – “the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.”
(Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
cheers from Prague,
Peet ;)
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Our holiday is “The day of the great straining”, when his noodleness was created. since his noodleness is the most powerful being in the universe he created himself by traveling back in time. coincidentally this day is also celebrated on December 25th.
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This comment will never be read by more than 2 people. Thanks for reading.
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I have trouble not being a jerk to people that still believe in fairy tales. That includes family and freinds.
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Robert, Thy talk about one “Flying Spaghetti Monster” thus, disturbing thy peace about thy true god. God doesn’t approve a such things. Robert my son, you are no longer going to be able to get into HEAVEN. You may change thy destiny, by showing gratitude to thee Christian Faith. Robert, may we see you there.
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Peet said: “Monty Python could make up something similar…”
Did it ever occur to you that the Monty Python’s were secretly pastafarians. That their hummor was a creative extension of their religion, as well as the result of pasta indulgence induced euphoric experiences.
Remember this is a very old religion only recently revealed, and even though the flying spaghetti monster does not talk to people, those were really funny folks and it wouldn’t suprise me if the FSM wanted to hang out with them.
Maybe the FSM, not wanting to reveal herself, was secretly one of the pythons, and used their wicked sense of satire and hummor to help crack everybody up.
I mean how many of us can say we were not influenced by the pythons? Did they not in fact help open our minds so that the flying spaghetti monster would make perfectly good sense to us.
I advance the premise that the pythons were in fact delectiables of the FSM. That their writings and jibberish were slirped from plates of pasta whether intentionally or inadvertantly to make people realize that dressing up like pirates is really cool and fun even if you are not really one.
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you guys are beautiful. Long live FSM
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@Paradox
See, some people like me, we get a kick out of helping people, and we find it only natural to be drawn to religions like Christianity, seeing as true Christianity is basically a religion about helping people, but if i’d have seen this first, i would be a devout Pastafarian :)
(R)amen
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I have just found the light. The FSM’s noodly appendage has touched me. I am saved!!
RAmen :)
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What are the 8 ‘I’d rather if you didn’ts’??
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THIS GUY IS TOTALLY RIGHT….. FATALITY TO THE MAN!!!!
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he is smart but he should focus his geinus on finding a substitute for capitolism
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I wonder what era or year of our Noodly Lord are we in?
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Paul (#785) is right.
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I’m a relatively new convert to Pastafarianism, I was wondering how I could get more involved. I would be interested in Pastafarian events in my area (California). It would be great to meet other Pastafarians and do charity work or something =] (email: jayggurl@yahoo.com)
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I have decide to become a virgin again. Since FSM’s noodly appendage touched me, no one else will.
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Does anyone know if there are any Pastafarian events in Indiana?
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maybe im jus misinformed but Spaghetti is a man made creation, rather a human idea. man made none the less. how does that work if it created all?
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But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives.–2 Chronicles 13:21
RAmen,
Archie
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Amen Brother. I pray nightly that the Flying Spaghetti Monster, peace be upon Him, may watch vigilantly over your canneloni. All other Faiths are so clearly false.
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Now I’ve read your site, I realise that Chritianity, Islam, Judaism are all rubbish. There is no such thing as an all creating interventionist God.
I feel really silly now.
Sorry
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This is a great blog, thanks for the post, I enjoyed it.
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Hello. Great job. This is a great post. Thanks!
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@Alley #783
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Captain_Mosey_and_the_Eight_.22I.27d_Really_Rather_You_Didn.27ts.22
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Hi, I’m a newly converted member of FSM. PLEASE put a membership on this site so that we can get statistics on the number of members. What if FSM has more members that intelligen design? Would be awesome! We could arrange meetings and stuff with other pastafarians around the world :D
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Mr. Moster,
I know you are real you have a store!! before I purchase holy FSM material I need to understand your standing with Pene pasta is it sacrilegious? is it fake? should I obanden it?
please advice my pesto is dependent on it!!
Shemesh
Israel
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Are you serious? this website is a joke. spaghetti is an object that will not attack like a monster or fly without you throwing it. If you believe in spaghetti monsters coolbut it’s not for me. Because of you I just lost a stupid bet. If the spaghetti monster came to earth, i would grab a fork and eat his stupid ass. this is a stupid,made up,dumb thing that i now feel dumber for reading!
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