I wrote the Open Letter sometime around January of 2005 and posted it online several months later after receiving no reply from the Kansas School Board. Within days of posting it online, the letter became an internet phenomenon, generating tens of thousands of visits each day, as well as personal responses from the school board members themselves. To date (August 2006), the venganza website has received upwards of 350 million hits, and somewhere in the proximity of 15 million unique visits. This website operates on a dedicated server and uses 600 – 800 GB/month in bandwidth. I’ve received over 15,000 emails in response to the letter.
The letter, after being blogged heavily for months, was printed in several large newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun Times, and many others. The newspaper articles caught the attention of book publishers, and at one point there were six publishers interested in getting the Word of the Flying Spaghetti Monster out to the public. In the end, the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was released by Random House in March of 2006.
It’s now been over a year since the FSM phenomenon started. I hope that a year from now we will be recognized as a legitimate religious organization, with all the same benefits *and tax loopholes* that the mainstream religions enjoy.
Please leave me a comment on the Letter, the FSM movement as a whole, or whatever you like. Thanks,
-Bobby
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this is the best thing anybody has ever done about anything!!!
i can see no other religion now…only the holy FSM..
i’m crying my pants off…damn it this is just…holy shit…wooof….so funny..i can’t stop laughing..
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Absolute genius Bobby!!! You have my unrivaled support. Consider me very entertained. Breath of much needed fresh air Sir!!
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Long Live the Lord Flying Spaghetti Monster! Long live the Pirates!
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I have experanced GOD’s wrath, it wasn’t too bad, a mild tooth ache. I have also experanced FSM’s wrath for (be it a slight over slight of mine) teaching the religion to my friend on the way to school. I believe the only reason I am still alive is due to the bandan that I was wearing at the time other wise the plate of pasta may have killed me instead of making me choke. It has also left me with the in-ablity to spell. If that is not proof then tell me why! Its at least better then some kids on srooms seeing the ‘virgin’ mary’s spirit.
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My name is Lord Bolognesea ruler of the planet Ragoo I am the father to who you call the Fighting Spaghetti Monster, his real name is Buitoni and he has been a very, very naughty boy. The planet Ragoo has a very strict policy regarding the few remaining planets that are not yet deemed suitable to join the nearly one billion members of the Union of Planets.
I understand why Buitoni has made himself know to some members of Earth, he feels responsible and sees all live on planet earth as family.
Many billions of years ago my brother Carbonara and I were as what you would call adolescences, decided to take a joyride around the universe. Our natural breathing needs require a high carbon dioxide atmosphere so we set the IID “Infinite Improbability Drive” to find a suitable stable planet. We found a very beautiful young planet and set down to have a float around. We took in the fascinating scenery and the fantastic pyroclastic displays but even these wonders get a bit boring for any adolescent after half an hour of your earth time.
We were both getting a bit hot and decided to cool down in a beautiful clear pool of H2o.
As you will find over many aeons there are a few constants in the universe, one is that if you put two males of any sentient species into a pool of H2O they will for sure play the farting game, this is fact. Like many games they can soon turn into a competition, unfortunately no mater how much carbonate you drink there is a cut off point were you ether stop or follow through…ooops.
After making a hasty exit from the pool we decided to get our fathers ship back into dock before he woke up. We did not realise the consequences of our farting game for nearly two million years. One of the roaming probes reported that the blue planet had spontaneously evolved life ten million years earlier that it should have done. Of cause my brother and I realised straight away what had happened.
Boy did we both get into trouble, I was grounded for 10 million years (one month in earth time). I thought I would have had a bigger punishment but our species adore their offspring, much like some of your race do. It was also decided by our science council that no real damage had been done, DNA as you call it is a constant across the universe as it is made of the universe. After a detailed computer model was created we found that the bacteria that had been inadvertently left behind had already evolved to take advantage of the planets resources and that at least one of the final sentient species would be as if it had been naturally made by the planet. We will not know for about two months of our time if the model is correct.
As for my son Buitoni I must ask for your understanding, like all eighty year old boys he thinks that he can play god. He does not do this out of malice as he is a good boy at hearts and wants to correct what he calls a crap mistake. His brother tells me he was originally just going to turn up on earth and make the apology and come home. However after a quick study of human kind it was quite obvious that not even 70% of earth believes in what you call EVOLOTION, so how could he apologise for something most don’t believe in. Unfortunately he decided to use your archaic idea of sky gods, thinking one week of playing god with the slight hint of evolution here and there would sort it all out, then when he got 100% devotion say……just kidding, it was like this really…my dad and uncle were sitting in this pool and…….
I have had a hearts to hearts talk to Buitoni and I think he now understands why playing god was the worst thing he could do.
I told him that humans are already having major problems with sky gods and even after he got them all to believe in him and drop there old gods they would want to worship him, “why would they want to do that after telling them who I really am”, to his bafflement I said because most are still little children and are scared of being alone, “but they are not stupid creatures, they must know by now that they have each other and they are all family”
Buitoni is a very caring male and has made some very good friends on earth even taking into account the well being of pirates.
Still I am very cross with Buitoni and have told him to say his goodbyes and to be back home in six days time (not seven as that’s my day off).
To those who live in the sea, fly through the sky and walk the earth I hope to meet you in a few weeks, in person. Peace is with you, little family of earth…just look in the mirror, not the sky.
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Dear Richard. D, I have just hyper mailed you my new paper on second generation artificial DNA, I would appreciate your input……….. Stephen. H we are still having problems with the IID anything over two million light years and looking like a spaghetti monster is a walk in one of your parks. Any help would be welcome.
Yours Sincerely
S. Bolinasia
lord.bolinasia@rocketmail.com
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You’ve come to our website, and you’ve obviously ignored the directive to read the Open Letter and the “About” tab material. You could have learned that our purpose is the exclusion of religious mythology from the science curricula of the public schools.
In the mean time, since you’ve proposed your own mythology, it is up to you to prove to us the existence of your deity. Mis-quoting from a Hebrew/ Koine book that you probably can’t read is not accepted as proof. You must know the language, who wrote it, when it was written, and the politics and economics of the authors and editors before we can have a clear rational discussion about it.
I’ve attached a link to a talk by Dr. Andy Thomson who discusses measurements that correlate neuroscience to human religious needs and brain responses. Let’s listen to it carefully and critically:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg
It seems to me that it correlates our physiological needs as helpless infants with our psychological fears as adults as far as MRI brain activity is concerned.
RAmen
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You are coming to our site and preaching your gospel because you think that you are the only game in town. You think that your religion is right and everyone else in the world is wrong. That is a pretty conceited way of thinking and living your life. Since the probability of any of you actually being right at all is minuscule, you may want to consider saying a quick prayer to all 5,000+ gods that were invented before your god was. Just in case.
It is unfortunate that you are so caught up in your high and mighty self that you fail to realize there are people out in the world who are different from you and live just as good of a life. Honestly, I would say that most of the people on this site are much better people than you are because we have a live and let live attitude (oh, and we don’t go around enjoying the fact that people who don’t believe like we do will suffer eternal torment. Sadists.). People should be allowed to do whatever makes them happy as long as they are not infringing on the rights of others.
It seems that your life is pretty miserable if you have to go around and putting others down and quoting from a book of fairy tales in order to make yourself feel better and worth something. I find that really sad. Hopefully one day you will figure out that this is the life that you have and actually start living it instead of trying to bring everyone else down into your pit of misery.
Oh, and since many of us don’t believe there is a god, Jeff4Jesus, then we don’t believe there is a satan. So… threatening us with him, or hell, isn’t going to do much. To quote a fellow Pastafarian: “Your god seriously overestimates his ability to intimidate me”.
Oh, and it would be super great if any of you could offer a shred of evidence concerning your claim that god exists, or that Jesus even existed for that matter.
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WOW, i can’t believe i have never encountered the church of the FSM before! why don’t you send people door-to-door to make sure we all get the message? how was i to know that this was out there – and i find have not been living my life to the right standards up til now ( i haven’t worn my pirate outfit in nearly a decade!) i hope the FSM can see into my heart, and know that all along i have deeply worshipped noodles.
on a more serious and sad note, i just spent some time reading the hate mail file. i have previously been dismayed by the lack of critical thinking in this country…and now i see i have to be worried about an extremely low level of knowledge regarding irony…sigh…
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Also, to those who comment on this, threatening the wrath of God: You should probably take a deep breath, take your fingers off of the keyboard, and think to yourself for a minute. Is this honestly any different than what the Christians in Kansas did? Is it honestly your place to tell someone that they’re wrong, and an idiot, for believing something that doesn’t coincide with your own beliefs? If I’m not mistaken, humans were given free choice by God, according to the Bible. So, you have the choice of listening to me, or not. But remember, that also means everyone else in the world has the God-given (literally) right to choose how to live their own life.
Back to the Soaring Pasta Beast (I hope he doesn’t mind if I call him that), and his religion: Thank you once again for having possibly one of the best moments of creativity in the last decade (at least).
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I don’t know what makes me laugh harder, the jesus crispies (they got burnt out on JESUS) replies, or the people who think this is serious. Woops, I mean of course this is serious, I would never claim the great FSM is not real. Please forgive me FSM, I won’t do it again.
Ramen
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I knew it all along!!!! My mama done told me when I was in kneepants.
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#3717
Freedom :) There’s no such thing. Writing or not writing here is already a choice and changes something.
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i absolutely love this site.. i only really found out about it today from my friend who is also a pastafarian.(:
btw, the hate mail makes me laugh. mainly bcos half the people just make pointless, retarded comments.(:
anyway, as i was saying. this site is totally awesome, and tbh bobby henderson, well done. you have actually made my day, and this site makes me smile.
may you forever be touched by his noodley apendage. < as my friend would say.(:
RAmen.
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LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xD
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FSM is one of the most awesome Gods, if not the only, and I DO agree that He has bigger balls than any other Gods in this universe (it’s not the reason why I think He is awesome, though).
What is pity, though, is that those male creators are so reckless and careless that they keep leaving their traces behind them (which, of course you all know, is “against Their policies”).
Therefore, praise the female creators, who so perfectly manage to hide Herselves that Shes have never ever been spotted by our midgets.
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I don’t know what is funnier the fact that some Fundies have their head so buried in the sand that they can’t see a joke the size of a freight train…
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The fact that the list reasons why the FSM is “stupid”, “can’t be real”, “you must be looney for believing that” and “you have no proof” and then turn around and tell us all about their diety. All without realzing the reason they use to determine the FSM is not real could and should be applied to their specific deity. The disconnect is startling.
I have been told Im going to hell for the last 5 years of my life. So give it a rest. “You greatly over estimates your god’s power to intimidate me.”
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Deer Proffet
Could you put a big spork, a cutlass or maybe a pirate ship replica on the moon?
kthnxby
http://crossonthemoon.com/
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As a true believer of the FSM and all its tomatoey goodness, I would just like to make the point that the meatballs which accompany the noodley appendages of the FSM are made with organic/free range meat and that we should all aspire to be just as conscious of reducing animal cruelty where possible.
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Dude FSM is fuckin awesome. You guys rule
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Ho pensato che avrei dovuto dire ciao dal Vaticannelloni
migliori saluti
Uovo Benedetto II
Papa di tutte le tagliatelle
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“Omg what a fucking waste of time it was making this!” good job at waisting your type sending a response ‘Satan’ or whatever your name is, last time i checked ‘Satan(real or not) doesn’t, nor never had, a life, so good job at calling the kettle black. you got a great laugh, so did I. Thanks for keeping me entertained. :)
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P.s.
3710 AKA fore_eyes16, you little rebel you, trying not to follow the crowd! :) you clearly have not read the responses that out good prophet Bobby recieved from the school board. i assure you that is as legit as it gets. may his noodliness touch you in all the right places.
RAmen! :)
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So, I guess Satan (3719) can’t read? Because he obviously missed the “READ THIS FIRST” part on the homepage, or he is just illiterate and doesn’t know what satire means… You also obviously have a wonderful grasp on vocabulary when you need to lace everything you say with curse words. I would prefer to hear from you how this is any different from any other “bullcrap shit” religion on this planet.
Oh, and we are all laughing. At your expense.
(And you obviously have not much of a life either if you took the time to post on this website).
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By far the best thing I’ve seen on the internet, and there’s some awesome porn out there…so, quite an achievement.
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You guys just basically hilight all the ways that all the other religions teach so much bullshit and you have friggin converted me, add me to your million plus members (Y).
Most religions leave so much out and only put in the bits that control people in the ay the present government want and anything new discovered would be held back s as not to make them look like FOOLS.
I am officially writing this on all forms and will be telling everyone about it in R.E.
We’ll see if i get put back on report for it.
Ha
Freaking Legend
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And as the holy Flying Spaghetti Monster with his/her/its noodley appendage reached down through the bear volcanoes and the stripper factory, into my life and blessed me with the power to speak out about his divine grace, i thank you FSM for your intervention and pray for all of you that his noodleyness will touch your souls as well. RAMAN
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Seriously, why do you people who are so religious and consider this to be absolute heretical blasphemy even bother to come to this site and bash it. Learn to help yourselves before trying to claim you know how to save everyone else from all these unspeakable horrors. Learn to freaking laugh at yourselves a bit as well and don’t take offense to everything. You do realize that taking God’s name in vain is a sin and disobeying one of the ten commandments. Go punish yourself every-time you say “Oh my God” or the like. So you do freak on anyone that says this and yes, OMG still counts.
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All hail His holy apendage!
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To Dontbestupid & blackblade4
It looks as though you have looked for information with regards to natural selection.
This information http://www.tdtone.org/evolution/TDTns.htm it is good that you are seeking answers. Why not look at the other side of the theory, whether it confirms your beliefs or opens your eyes at least you will have two points of view.
I suggest buying this book or even better the audio book, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolution/dp/1846571758/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258448722&sr=8-3
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”…………. Albert Einstein
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper……. Eden Phillpotts:
The people of earth once worshiped the sun, believe the world was flat and the universe revolved around the earth.
Many scientists paid a heavy price for their theories, thankfully logic and time have helped us see some truth.
Or has it, most of humanity still believes in one of the reincarnations of the sun god.
Most humans have little interest in the global world, fear ties them to there tiny unbending world.
As for the universe, let’s face it most people think the world revolves around them………S Medhurst
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LMAO I love it!!!!!!!! {:o)
Bobby, normally I don’t comment on blogs but this was an absolute MUST! I can’t express in words how brilliant you are, so I prayed to FSM and was led by Him to just come here and write whatever I could. Indeed, His spirit led me here, and since I’m here, that proves He must be real!!!!! On that note, I do believe the Christians have the right idea of forcing their beliefs to be taught in school. I do, because I believe FSM should be taught in schools as well, and I know if Christians get away with forcing their religious beliefs on others, we can then use their new system of global forced religion to introduce FSM into the mainstream school system. And I don’t expect they would complain, seeing as how it was their own idea to make religious teaching mandatory for school children. You see, it all works out perfectly!
PS – Tho I don’t know you, I am very proud of the human race on account of you. Hopefully you’ll make a difference. It’s people like you who usually do!
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i would like to say thanks you for finally standing up to the mainstream religions, though i myself am not a pastafarian i am very grateful for something greater then possibility of “learning” intelligent design theory, which though due to my Australian schooling i have so far been protected from, is being offered to students like myself. i would also like to note that if when i die i raise my eyes to see in front of me the noodelly savior before my eyes i will willingly wear the garb of a pirate and bow to his tenticaly will.
P.s. i would also like to say to all the other religions *ahem* Christianity (but their are other offenders): we have been putting up with your faiths, you inquisitions, your crusades, your attempts to destroy individuality and other “pagan” religions, your ridiculous hats that look like bullets (i’m talking to you pope), so just put up, shut up and get together and wait for judgment day with a smile as we will finally find out who is right, who’s in hell, or who was reincarnated as a bunny, i know who my moneys (or soul as the case may be) is on. and it isn’t the bunny.
P.P.s i would appreciate it if this message was received in a more public spot of the website.
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To Dontbestupid & Blackblade4
As you seem to be experts in Intelligent Design maybe you can explain why I have a coxis? Or why the nerve to my Larynx goes from my brain via the hart? The design doesn’t seem very intelligent.
Blackblade4
Your argument lacked any substance and seems to be just a rehash of a bland attack you found on the internet.
Though it was quite funny, I liked the bit about vampire bats which would have been “the death knell for the mammalian species” and therefore disproves Darwin! It seems the author missed one small error on this, as bats are nocturnal i.e. feed at night all the mammals would be sleeping and as bats hunt using sonar they would look like part of the landscape.
Dontbestupid
Intolerable? We are only reacting to people like yourself, remember you came to this site and I can see no other reason you would do that but to attack us.
You also said that “there IS lots of scientific evidence supporting the concept of intelligent design”, well where is it? So far nothing testable has been provided unlike Darwinism!
Next time bring proof.
RAmen
Gordon
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
I am going to buy this Gospel so I can pray to the Him.
He who created all of the world and us.
Hail to Holy Spagheti Monster.
Let us pray brothers ans sisters, AMEN.
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the fsm is pretty funny but seriously – where did stuff come from? how did planet size rocks, stars/suns, gases come to be? we need to ask ourselves if we really believe something came from nothing and life came out of no life. where did seeds come from? a sequoyah tree seed is tiny and out of the seed comes the largest living thing on earth. just a few questions to get the noodle thinking.
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