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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thank you man!!…just thank you
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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Kain’t get away frum dat Flying Spaghetto Monstah. Frum da hood…
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Vetrinegnin Eth Eli!!!
Absolute genius Bobby!!! You have my unrivaled support. Consider me very entertained. Breath of much needed fresh air Sir!!
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Together we can beat the doubt down with meatballs of love! For so many years we thought we were alone- how did I miss this 4 years ago? Thank you so much for your efforts.
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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@ 3704 – Jeff4Jesus -,
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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I don’t know know what’s more awesome: the fact that there is a church of the FSM, or the comments left by people who get all worked up and angry because there’s a church of the FSM.
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To fore_eyes16, Danielle, and Jeff4Jesus,
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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This is probably one of the best things I’ve ever seen. The way you wrote the letter was genius, and I absolutely love the graph.
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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