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
This shit sucks ass in a major way
There are people that doesn’t understand how deep and great is the power of the FSM, All people who are not aware of this very truth shall perish and carry their meaningless lives on eating only healthly vitamines eternally. These are words of wisdom, written by my very fingers, that were touched by our Greatness, and in His behalf I say….
BELIEVE and you will be rewarded(someday)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“caveat Lector
Mar 16th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Hey, I know what we need!!! We need someone to have a near death experience and see the Flying Spaghetti monster before going to a heaven that has a beer volcano and a stripper factory!!! It would be all the proof we need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I was at the olive garden the other day and I swear I saw the FSM in the corner of my eye. If it was not the FSM itself that I witnessed, it certainly was created by the FSM to inform me of his existence. See there was a group of scientist carbon-dating artifacts right there on the table. Clearly, they wanted to enjoy some wonderful pasta, created by the FSM itself, while they were dating these artifacts. I had a camera with me, here is the picture.
Hope the link works if not. here is the url: http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v197/159/99/10238883/n10238883_37996567_8330.jpg
RAmen.
The second poster Chris,
You said everything I would have said but way better. I agree with you!
“This satirical approach is funny and makes a couple of valid points, but it is absurd to deny the existential dilemmas that are addressed by a theory of intelligent design. Just because ID has been hijacked by the Christian right in an atrocious manner does not mean we need to fall into making reactionary and altogether unreasonable claims (speaking of the spirit of the meaning behind FSM not its inherent absurdity as a joke) in stead of admitting that the nature of our reality and the strange nature of intelligence and consciousness should prevent us from being overly dogmatic and assertoric on the one hand and overly skeptical on the other. ”
“The FSM joke is little more than a vehicle for ferrying contempt towards proponents of ID and theists, and as such it is a cowardly attempt at feigning a sophisticated and forward thinking understanding of the universe.”
I am ashamed that there are ungodly people who would seriously profane the lord in such a manner. Do you desire eternity in the flesh-consuming pit of hell? How can you blaspheme the one true god with the evil scourge of science? You should know that the Lord has sent his chosen son to save you. Those who believe in the unholy “religion” of FSM need to know the truth. Only through this truth can you be saved. This truth is self-evident; the creator sent his only son to die for your sins. This son is worshiped for all that is right and true. He so loved us that he was willing to die for us.
This Son is here and can be seen in many ways. If you go to the park or to the beach he is there. This Son is my Lord Jesus Frisbee Christ. He was willing to die for us, chewed to shreds in the maw of the unholy Pontius Pilot Jake (This is the Devil Dog, the evil spawn of a German Shepard and Siberian Husky, sent to earth to sleep most of the time on the couch while shedding his foul mange). This only happened after he was tortured by being exposed to the sun for 3-days on the roof. You must repent and accept the son of FSM. If you do, you may then become a Frisbeeterian. We are the true believers, the rest of you are a bunch of Jew-boys who have not accepted Frisbee Christ as the true Son of God.
If you are ready to accept Frisbee Christ, you can send me some money (True believers know they must tithe 51% of your income, cash so it is tax free).
True believers also know that they must worship the holy Trinity: Frisbee (the son), Gravity (the source of all power) and Fish (Trout, Tarpon ect.). Frisbee (the son) is exalted by services conducted at the Frisbee golf course. Gravity is worshiped by using the holy sacrament of snowboarding/skiing. Fish is worshiped using the holy wand of power, usually a fly rod. Go to SnoTzz.com for information on the vestments needed for Gravity worship.
for all the people here that are thinking this is a “cult” or just an organization of stupid people
look at the bigger picture, its showing us how faith and religion and theorys of how we came to be are well, crazy. its something that will hopefully open up peoples eyes and get us out of this age of fairy tales that we believe in
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favorited this one, guy
r u on crack? what dah eF have you been smoking. This is retarded yet hilarious at the same time.
You people who are getting so upset have no fucking sense of humor. You are also being really judgmental. I think Ghandi said it best: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Jesus-loving Wife of a Pastafarian
I haved lived in darkness until this moment. I have been touched by his Noodly Goodness and have now seen the light.
Brilliant, possibly the most amazing thing i’ve ever read! Clearly this is evidence of the FSM helping you. No mortal could write something that intelligent.
I feel the flying spaghetti monster around me all the time and he helps me through my day. May he bless the world!
This is awesomely clever! I am so sick of all the religious bullshit that’s happening in our world. I am sick of attacking it with logic: yeah, god is a man BECAUSE our civilization has been dominated by men since its beginning, god created man in his image- what else were they going to say?- he looks like that hybrid of the Mexican staring frog of Shri-Lanka and Rat King from the Nutcracker that we see on South Park? god needs body hair because otherwise he’d freeze to death living in the environment of -273 degree C….or that he has a cock with balls like the rest of us, so that he could fuck all the Black Holes in the universe…what insanity! It’s mind-boggling that there are so many ignorant assholes living on our planet, who having never seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or felt god are claming to know what is going to happen to us after we die. They all must be Miss Cleo- like in their unique “psychic ability” to know everything. Not even fucking Moses ever saw god, it was always a burning bush, morning dew, or some walking penis that talked to him—shit, in today’s world he’d never see the light of day talking to the walls of his paded cell that he beat his head against in a straight jacket.
I can go on like this forever, but what’s the point? Those people who had exchanged their brain for the intoxicating dogma that promises them whether it’s pussy in the afterlife or the non-stop auditions of Heavenly Idol will never be saved (no pun intended, but ironic, isn’t it?). The only other thing I have left to say is that they will never know how good life feels knowing that it is the only time they will ever experince it.
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
I find this incredibly hilarious and well-stated, and i’m Catholic!
Thank the monster that someone has finally taken action to make this a part of the learning experience for our faithful youth.
My, oh, my. Chris- does the word coexist mean anything to you? There is room for all of us. Peace to you my dear one
Hack again?!
Since the birth of pastafarianism, my faith has been restored in man. Thank god (ha ha) that people still have a sense of humor and that they’re intelligent enough to recognize satire when it’s slathered in their face like marinara on a mound full of quivering noodles. If I had to, I’d choose the all lovable, all knowing FSM over the gay-hating, first-born-sacrificing, world-flooding, sexiest pig of a god that most believe in. I do have one question however. Does the Almighty Flying Spaghetti Monster have Flying Angel-Hair Pasta Monsters to do his field work? If not, he should look into that. They’re on sale right now at CostCo.