The Missouri State University Pastafarians took some time out of their schedules to spread the Word of the FSM in Springfield, Missouri.
Thanks very much to JT, Trotsky, Brenda and all of the Pastafarians present for doing this. The following description is in JT’s words.
In Springfield, there is a group of zealous christians that bring an array of witty signs downtown every weekend and hold them up trying to save the sinful, wayward souls of all the partiers.
Some of their clever passages of moral goodness include:
“The Party Ends in Hell”
“To Marry a Divorced Woman is Adultery”
“Homosexuality is an Abomination”
etc. etc. etc.
So…my pirate crew and myself decided appraise them to the existence of the one TRUE god:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Here I go…gonna give them a pamplet and tell them about the FSM.
They told me they didn’t want it and they refused to take it. I offered to take one of theirs in exchange. Again, they said ‘no’.
I pointed out that it was kind of shitty of them to expect me to be receptive to their message while being unwilling to extend me the same courtesy.
They gave me the stone-walled silence.
Can’t say I was shocked.
I decided to join them…help save some souls, y’know?
Ah, thanks for joining me, Trotsky.
With eyes lit up like the fires of Allah…
Look what we found!
Here’s a close-up.
saucy, saucy wenches. Pun intended.
We handed out 135 pamplets in under 30 minutes. Overall, the night was a HUGE success. People were very receptive to what we were doing. I hope some of them will start becoming more involved in many of the issues dominated by the religous right. The lady above felt compelled to take one of our pamplets over to the christians and explain that we make just as much sense…and she’s hot.
It’s important to have females. It attracts the attention of passers-by and pisses off the uptight people holding the signs across the street.
Another convert. Well-done Trotsky!
Kickin’ ass and takin’ names.
People continually told us that our corner of the intersection felt a great dealer cooler than the others…coincidence? Or prophesy?”
Contact the MSU Pastafarians here: MSUPastafarians@gmail.com
check out JT’s xanga here
Way to go guys! You done us all very proud.
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Heaven has a beer volcano!?!
Probably explains why there ain’t no devil… thats just god when he’s drunk :)
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Saw these a long time ago, makes my heart warm. Lovely.
Touched by his noodly appendage, indeed.
Good riddance of those Sargothians of Kuul.
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I am a Christian and I HATE those street corner “evangelists”. Thanks for breaking them up.
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Awesome job guys! Not only did you get the message across, you refrained from kicking those evangelists where it counts! Self control increases others respect.
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*sniff* So beautiful…..vive Pastafaria!!
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I just wish your passion for God was as cool as your pictures and website. It’s going to take guys like you to turn around the ‘irrelavancy’ of the Gospel. I am praying that God lead you to what Jesus is really all about.
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Very nice. Gives the rest of us ideas, and it sounds like it was fun, too.
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Excellent job guys
Go away Jim and take jesus with you!
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You guys kick ass. A fantastic demonstration of doing the Lord’s work. Now let’s start collecting money for a missionary project, there are souls to be saved. Set sail for the American south….arrr, ha harrr me Heartys!!!
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Jim, (or any Christians knocking about here)
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I seriously hope you might revisit this thread…
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*Don’t* go away! Glad you’ve been attracted by our brightly glowing exterior. Now flutter a little closer and let’s see if we can burn a revelation in to you…
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You’ve clearly got excellent taste and you sound like a nice sort, since you decided to pray for us rather than hurl poorly spelt abuse. You’re well on track to becoming a fully functional human being. We just need to take a look at this ‘god’ thing.
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You’ll find good arguments to help you get over this in many of the threads on this site. You might also like to go looking for a site called godisimaginary.com . You won’t like what it has to say and there’ll be a lot of stuff you won’t agree with. Look at it as challenging your faith. A faith that has never been challenged isn’t really much of a faith, after all. If God is *really* real, He’s not going to be dispelled just by a little rational thought, is he?
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What I’d like you to bear in mind is that, if you start to waver and wonder if maybe the atheists have a point, you’re not actually losing anything. Whether god exists or not, he does so irrespective of whether you believe in him.
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And I promise you something. *We* exist. People exist everywhere. You are one yourself, as you may have noticed. Hopefully, you might one day, by virtue of your own honest thinking, join us in recognising that it’s really *people* that matter.
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Quite a number of people on this site used to be Christians, you know. You don’t need to pray for us to see ‘what Jesus is really all about’. We’ve seen it. And yet, here we all are…
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Good luck.
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Awesome web site — godisimaginary.com. Thanks.
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Jim, please don’t pray for me. Really, I’m serious.
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@ Mike Meier,
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Yarrr, ’tis a good site, alright. Can’t remember who pointed me there, now. Quite probably another honest sea-dog.
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Fourth pic down. As a trained photographer (from my younger days), the old adage ” a pics worth a thousand words” still holds true.
Well done and RAmen
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i love missouri. we have strange people (ie: christians)
Arr!
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I’ve never been a big fan of ‘those street corner evangelists’ myself, but I sort of miss the old guy with the brow-bagged wine bottle screaming at people about the end of the world. -fond memories
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you “pastafarians” make me sick. you spread nothing but filth and ignorance. only we, the true followers of our lord Jesus Christ know how to spread love: by blowong up abortion clinics, by physically assaulting arab-looking people, and by harrassing the loved ones of allegedly homosexual soldiers (cause God hates fags{the people, not the cigarrettes, he loooves cigarrettes}).
i hope you accept the word of Christ soon. now i have to go dress up like my mother and whip myself for having had impure thoughts while cleaning my gun.
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Holy crap. Thats where my grandparents live. They have actually told me that capital punishment is good because god said so.
Totally not something I expected from Springfield.
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wow.
Funny.
Pirates rule.
Ninjas drool.
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Oh how you scalawags intrigue me!
My followers, so lame and smelling of fish,
never had snappy pirate attire. And they all
became so catty when I brought any wenches
into the fold. (They even tried to keep my
wife out of the banquet photo!)
Yours is a faith built on love. Love for humanity
and the Monstrous Macaroni. Oh, that I could ascend
and sit at the right hand of the Pasta. What a blessing
that would be and naturally I could provide the wine.
I bid you peace, love and pasta.
SCJ
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@Steeeve Mova Nov 22nd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
‘i hope you accept the word of Christ soon. now i have to go dress up like my mother and whip myself for having had impure thoughts while cleaning my gun.’
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Spot on Steeeve.
Christanity …a theology that unites sado-masochists from all walks of life.
RAmen
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It’s about time we enter the educational system. Here’s a trail-blazing vita to consider:
Doctor of Flying Spaghetti Monster Missions And Evangelisms Degree
Course Syllabus
Each FSM rector must reckoned to have communicated with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He must be willing to pledge to his group of followers that he/she has been influenced by the voice and vision of the FSM. As a rector in The Church of FSM, you will allow the FSM to speak to your heart and counsel you about the stresses of life. The Flying Spaghetti Monster will replace all your negative emotions with HIS opposites.
You will learn to teach your flock how to experience the FSM living within and learn to abide in the FSM to the extent that HE abides in our gut knowledge of HIM… especially after a nice pasta meal.
Your message does overlap, somewhat, with existing neo-con religions by learning how to fulfill your financial destiny. You will immerse yourself in The Church Of Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Scripture and find support for the belief that the FSM delights in the prosperity of HIS children. You will learn amazing ways to teach your pastafarians that it is the FSM’s desire for them to lend and not borrow, to be the tail and not the head. Once they’re true believers that the FSM actually interfered with the Carbon-Dating process, you will be easily manage to teach them the nature and purpose of prophetic revelation and its proper function in the Body of FSM. You will soon become a questioning, visionary, psychic, and creative thinker who questions the status quo.
Lastly, the FSM belief surpasses creationism and all ID viewpoints simply because it offers a concrete and reasonable explanation of how everything was created in a nanosecond…and recently! With his slick tentacles and all-knowing nature, he obstructed the attempt, via dim-witted human Carbon-Dating, to place things and events in an orderly sequence throughout time. FSM explains how, better than any other organized religion, that the earth was created in 6 days roughly only 6,000 years ago. It explains why the FSM bible is scientifically accurate in explaining why the earth isn’t billions of years old. True FSM believers realize that dinosaurs did not exist millions of years before man, even though thousands of heretic college textbooks say otherwise. The SFM’s tentacles also makes it easy to see why the mountains, oceans, the true location of the Red Sea crossing, and many other events are no older than 6,000 years. Yes, I cannot fathom teaching ID and creationism in America’s science classes without also teaching the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory…it seems to hold up better. I’m awaiting the second coming of the FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!
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None of you can ever truly deny the existence of God. The fact remains that science cannot answer all questions. Also, there are the numerous miracles and relics such as the cloak of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the apparent intervention of God in everyday matter.
“With the gift of intelligence often comes the curse of no faith” -hopefully all of you can try to gain both of these traits.
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“None of you can ever truly deny the existence of God. ” Ah hah, but can YOU truly deny the existance of a Flying Spaghetti Monster? I think not.
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FSM is great, from what I have seen in it’s scientific properties as well as bits of the Gospel of FSM and the 8 “I’d rather you didn’ts” I have come to one sole conclusion, FSM is awesome and a purely valid religion. I found out about this yesterday and I want the Gospel of FSM already, I am going ot buy it very soon from the local bookstore. I wanna try my hand at preaching in my Pirate Gear (Which im going to have to buy soon), i think I could get at least a few followers. Hail FSM!
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“Also, there are the numerous miracles and relics such as the cloak of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the apparent intervention of God in everyday matter.”
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Not to mention Jesus’ face in a piece of toast. You just never know when he is going to show up!
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WaY to spread the word guys, keep up the good work! RAMAN!!!!
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“Colin Jan 13th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
None of you can ever truly deny the existence of God. The fact remains that science cannot answer all questions. Also, there are the numerous miracles and relics such as the cloak of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the apparent intervention of God in everyday matter.
“With the gift of intelligence often comes the curse of no faith†-hopefully all of you can try to gain both of these traits.”
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wtf?. Colin. i deny god. i deny it till my throat is sore. i even challenge god to prove me wrong – go on god i dare you! as for your numerous miracles and relics? you mean you find something that science cannot 100% conclusively explain. so god did it? i despair for the race i really do. get yourself out of the dark ages and think for a change. it is no different from the gambian dictator who claims he can cure HIV with a magic medicine and prayer, and kicks anyone out who doubts him. – actually that sounds familiar, believe in me or i kick you out… wonder where he got that idea from?
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gods intervention in everyday matters? i read the news. he is curiously absent from most of it. where they all bad people? do they all deserve pain and suffering? even the children?
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as for the traits, i’ll stick with intelligence, you can stuff your faith up your…..
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@Navigator Spider
BAH HA HA HA HA HA!! Very nicely said, a joy to read as always. Gald you’re back!
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I shall have to do this…The word must be spread!
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MTV likes to film at my school..perhaps next time they should come…I’ll have something organized *schemes*
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Our mascot is a pirate. I believe it is a sign!
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Awsome work guys, respect from Birmingham in the UK
May the sauce be with you all
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@Navigator Spider
I second Batmans praise for your post and welcome for your return. Blessed by His noodly appendages are us pirates and wenches who have been given The Gift of Intelligent Thought.
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I’ve gotta say, I support you guys, most of all for your tolerance and self control. This issue isn’t about god or no-god, it’s about the way people act on their beliefs. I am an atheist, but I have no issue with someone who wants to believe in god, so long as they have no problem with me. Hopefully what FSMism really promotes is tolerance and having a bit of fun in life, the people in the above pictures certainly seem to be, and why not? Who wouldn’t laugh at dressing up as a pirate and standing on a street corner handing out pamphlets. I love the laid back and ultimately happy approach. Hopefully both christians, atheists, pastafarians and any other group will follow this example.
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haha
you people rock
my socks
I’m soooooo doing that
thanks for the idea mateys
Ramen xxxxxxxx
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you know….I came across this page a little while back….
today I saw this “missions” trip to downtown springfield…to which is my hometown, but what I can’t tell is whether or not if this is a mocking to other religions due to the fact in your replies you all say “woo hoo this is fun or yea go for it…..” or if indeed you believe in this so called “Flying Spaghetti Monster.”
Those “EXTREME” people (I will not call them Christians even, because who really knows if they are….that is not myself place to say) are not right by all means to be shoving Jesus down someones throat, because it all comes down to building a relationship and living out by your actions……
But being a mockery of them and not respecting their views, you will never gain their respect and allowing a chance to discuss your views with them by doing what you did on that night…..
So I guess my real question is do you all think this is some game just to make fun of other’s views and religions by incorporating some “FALSE” god or do you truly believe and feel that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster that can truly died for you the way Jesus did…..so that you can have eternal life?
Just wondering? a little confused….
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@(r)(a)(c)(h)(e)(l)
We believe in freedom of religion. That is we should be free to prctice our religion and if the xtian religion creation story is to be taught as science, then the FSM creation story should be taught also. After all our heaven full of beer and strippers is way better than a throne and a few angels playing harps. Don’t you think?
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage :))
RAmen
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Hello Rachel – welcome to the site.
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” do you truly believe and feel that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster that can truly died for you the way Jesus did…..so that you can have eternal life?
Just wondering? a little confused….
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I honestly believe that Jesus did truly die! It’s stuff after that where I have a problem.
RAmen!
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Brilliant! I feel so inspired! His noodly appendage hath passed through solid foundation and touched my heart! Long live the FSM!
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FSM be praised! Great job guys!
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Jesus did not die. In fact, according to
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http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/search/
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there are 6 of them living in the US right now!!! (I’ve heard you can also find a lot of those funny obscene names, too.)
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PeopleSearch.com says there are over 100 Jesus Christs running around the US, but a search for a Jesus Christ born on Dec 25 (any year) did not turn up any matches. Anyway, I wonder what all these Jesus Christs do on Easter, and Christmas, or if any of them are carpenters, etc., etc., etc.
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Also, there are over 100 Mary Christs, so someone must have gotten married to someone.
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I live very close to springfield, WHY DIDN”T I GET TO COME ALONG????????It’s okay though, I forgive you guys, you spread the noodely word and that’s all that matters.
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If anyon lives near the frickisburg Va area and is a pastafarian please dress in pirate regalia and we shall follow suit to those brave people in the pics. contcact me somehow.
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Awesome. lol I -knew- there was a reason for me staying in Springfield.
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I believe the way Jesus wants us to evangelize is to love people. With our emotions, with actions.
We have sinned too, so I wouldn’t stand on a street corner condemning people
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Nice to see a religion that if finally fun to be around I have truly been touched by his noodly apendage
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God who created man and gave us His Word (the Bible) will send His son Jesus with His mighty angels. In flaming fire Jesus will take “vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe(because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” 2 Thessalonians 1:7
This is why we preach Jesus’ teachings.
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dose any one know if there r any pastfarians in New Zealand or am i the only one?
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Oyear i am a stone cold atheist im well educated and ive read the bible and the caran and ive had bible lesons from cathloks, jahover witneses, and mormons, and yes i colin i can defintly say that there is no god or heaven but….. if heaven had a volcano of tiquela and a giant lime tree and all the spagetty i could eat we could come to a arangement. ramen to all even you colin
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P34ch3z Sep 20th, 2007 at 2:11 am
“dose any one know if there r any pastfarians in New Zealand or am i the only one?”
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Lotsa sheep? Conversion excursion time? :P
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“if heaven had a volcano of tiquela and a giant lime tree and all the spagetty i could eat we could come to a arangement.”
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See ya there P34ch3z (:))
RAmen
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@wilbur Sep 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
“vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power”
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Yeah? A power tripping control freak then? Nice! :p
May you feel the touch of His Noodly Appendage wilbur
RAmen
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sorry changed my name p34ch3z was getting to much stik from my brothers and its only the south island thats got all the sheep and the best spagetty is made by Watties. im not thick but wat dose conversion excersion time meen? wench nikkiee are u in the usa cauz its 1:48 pm hear and your reading a realy wird time??? Ramen Im a convert
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http://www.flyingpirate.com the last of the pirates RIP ginger gibbs
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Wilbur Wilbur Sep 3rd o7. I really need to share this gospel with you as commanded by FSM.I had a revelation of the second coming( or serving) of FSM, I was told to eat as much spagetti as I can so than he( or she or it, or whatever) is in me forever. Then I can ascend to heaven and enjoy the everlasting volcano of beer. FSM loves you so much and wants you to join me in heaven for the beer. Don’t forget to bring the peanuts
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@wilbur
“In flaming fire Jesus will take “vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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This is why we preach Jesus’ teachings.”
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Ah, so it is just bare naked mental terror that drives you and your fellow believers. I had thought so for a good while now.
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You guys are dumb and I really feel sorry for you that you have put all your faith into a bunch of noodles.
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And Alex, we really feel sorry for you, because you just don’t get it….
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rAmen
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i hate the stupid, “jesus died for your sins”remark, i mean, if you get reserructed anyway, there’s not much guts needed to die
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Ahhhh, this is the first time in my entire life I’ve felt almost sad that I live in an empty part of England where there are no evangelists (except the ones who come around to my fricking school and invade assemblies, RE lessons and Citezenship…GRRRR…maybe next time they come I can dress up as a pirate and explain Pastafarianism…but I’d probably get given detention for breaking the uniform rules, despite it being religious clothing…would they deny a Christian their crucifix? I think NOT!)
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Off topic again…FSM, I’m bad at sticking to my point.
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My point is…AWESOME! I wish I had an oppurtunity to do that!
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That’s all I wanted to say.
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Facebook Pastafarian group now open
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God who created man and gave us His Word (the Bible) will send His son Jesus with His mighty angels. In flaming fire Jesus will take “vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe(because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” 2 Thessalonians 1:7
This is why we preach Jesus’ teachings.
HEY WILBUR! In the immortal words of Mr. Universe…”bring in on, bring it on…”
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I ate you’re flying God for suppper lastnight. Delish
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Indeed there seems to be no fear of God here. Repent and obey the Gospel of Christ. It is your only hope. Jesus said that his word will judge us on the last day. John12:48
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Is eating spa-geddy and meatballs like communion?
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You can slap around our ears with bible citates all you want, but you forget that anyone who’s not a christian sees that book for what it really is: just another book. Why so many people believe it contains only devine truth is one of those mysteries of the last 2000 years. To non-christians, a bible citate means nothing, or a morality lesson (completely loose from any religion) at best, and thus bible citates are completely worthless when trying to convince us.
A book is no proof as you can write whatever you want in it. And claiming it is only truth, even for thousands of years, doesn’t make it truth.
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Mark 16:16 says he that believeth not shall be damned. You unbelievers must realize that someday “every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord” but for many it will be forever too late. For the glory of God, please repent and “save yourselves from this untoward generation.”
Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Contrary to popular opinion, the way to eternal life is through dying to yourself and in love to Christ obeying His teachings in the new testament.
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RAmen to that. may you be touched by his noodly appendage.
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omg, u guys are an insperation
peace love and pirates
RAmen
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“I’d Really Rather You Didn’t Use My Existence As A Mean To Opress, Subjugate, Punish, Eviscerate, And/Or, You Know, Be Mean To Others. I Don’t Require Sacrifices And Purity Is For Drinking Water, Not People.” (The Gospel of FSM, The Eight “I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts,” Verse 2)
This is One of My Golden Rules! Isn’t He he greatest God of all gods?
RAmen!!!
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“He who unbelieve’th and goes by the sheep’s turn, shell yonder a sea of hopelessness across a meadowe sky. No cross for an un-foreseeing yonder that will plucke’th essence of nutmeg from thayn chest. And so shall He lead a virtue greater than lords of yore, believe and shall you be believed in.” ElDante 13:42
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It seems the christians here completely missed my point. That’s only fair, because I’m quite confident I don’t get their’s either. I will make a last attempt to clearly state what I mean.
Devotees of any religion tend to take Their holy scriptures literally word for word. In my opinion that’s sometimes even dangerous, but in any case I would consider it unwise, because what is written simply can’t be an accurate tale of what really happened (for instance) 2000 years ago.
I will illustrate my point with some bible history, as I know a fair bit about it. I once was a catholic, until I grew old enough to ask myself the question why I should believe the stories my parents and teachers were telling me.
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First off, the bible as we read it today is a translation. The bible has been translated plenty of times throughout history, going from one language to another or changed to more modern wordings. And inevitably, plenty of it’s original content has been lost in translation. This already is a reason taking the text of the bible literally is rather pointless, as it’s original text is probably quite different.
For instance, using the bible, a French monk once tried to calculate Jesus’ exact birth date. Eventually, he concluded Jesus had to be born somewhere between 4 and 6 before Christ…
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The old testament is a part of the Tanakh (The jewish ‘bible’, to clear that up). It is, in short, the part that tells about the beginning of the world, the greatness of God, loyal worshippers of God, the risks of denying God and the promise of a saviour. The old testament as we read it today differs incredibly from how it was written originally. This is because it was rewritten by the jews during the Babylonian exile (a true and historically proven event). During this exile, while the jews were kept (mostly) as slaves by the Babylonians, the Jewish faith began to fade. Some reasoned the Babylonian gods had to be more powerful, as they had defeated “God’s chosen people”. Most of them took over Babylonian faith beacause the Babylonians encouraged this with rewards and easier lives. To counter this, the faithful jews rewrote the Tanakh, making it more spectaculair by adding a great deal of miracles. In the original scripture for instance, the red sea never split on Mozes’ command. Instead God made the east wind blow all night to make the sea slightly retreat. In the original story God was simply with his people, not present as a column of fire and smoke. It is also no coincidence that the name of the most important Babylonian god, Baal, became one of the names of the devil.
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The new testament was actually written about 300 years after Jesus’ death. I’m not sure what the sources of Matteüs, Marcus, Lucas and Johannes (these are the actual names of Matthew, Mark, Lucas and John. they were ‘englishized’ because they were too hard to pronounce in the English language) were, but I doubt they had some accurate video footage about Jesus’ life. In other words, they were writing down a story about events that had been passed on mostly from mouth to mouth over 300 years. Sories going from mouth to mouth tend to get more spectaculair every time they’re told, and this would explain most of the miracles taking place in the bible. In addition to the sheer impossibility of that story going on for 300 years unchanged, they most likely didn’t write down everything, only the things they believed should be in the book. Lastly it is aknown fact they had no information wathsoever about Jesus’ birth and young years. The writers made up the whole ‘Christmas story’ (born in a manger and stuff).
In the middle ages, the bible was given it’s final form (excluding later translations and edits for more modern language) by the Vatican. There were plenty of gospels, over 30, yet the Vatican chose to only include the 4 that are known today. Crudely stated, they only included those that fitted them best. Or reflected the Christian faith best IN THEIR OPINION.
This is the stuff they didn’t teach me in sunday school, this IS the stuff that seems far more plausible and is backed up by more than one thick book.
I’m not saying here the bible is a piece of trash. Eventually, it preaches some noble values like ‘love thy neighbour’ and that’s a good thing. I AM saying here it is rather pointless to take the bible or any other holy book from any other religion literally. (The sceintology holy book was actually a science fiction novel for crying out loud…) These books are meant to pass on a faith and it’s ideas, not simply words.
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haha, great stuff! let me know if your followers do something in sweden!
Ramen
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I agree with Thomas, the major problem with organized religion, especially with fundamentalism, is that it gets too engorged with dogma, and it begins to loathe and lash out against anything that presents a different idea. No reasonable, intelligent Pastafarian will dispute or cast down the things that Jesus taught about loving other people, about not using the name of God to abuse and rob the less fortunate(wow, that sounds familiar), and about a God that forgives his creations if they wish to be forgiven and will let love in their heart. The quote from Mohandas Gandhi on page 91 of the Gospel says it best. “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
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Hey Wilbur,
Wassa, good message, everyone will all go on their knees and worship the true savior, I didn’t really get the Jesus bit, but we pastafarians know were right. And Wilbur, what do you mean it will be too late? Because your god, FSM is kind to all, non-believers or otherwise. Glad to see other people following the world of FSM and thier able to justify their beliefs with other people’s religious texts! Pastafarians kick ass.
-J.T.S.
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I’m so going to try and get together with some friends to do this. Great work to all here who are sticking up for the FSM. And anyone else notice the others here don’t actually make an argument, just spew quotes from a book…? xD
RAmen to all of ya.
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what kind of foolishness is this!? have you gone mad you freaks!?
i would say that this is the stupidest and dumbest cult ever! hahaha….
you bunch of idiots, look at yourselves your hilarious!
try to recruit Richard Famador, will ya?
he might as well join your ignorance and stupidity….
hahaha….
you freaks are jokes!
go home to your grandmamas and suck your milk bottles!
you might have your minds fixed again….
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bunch of homos and retards! that’s for sure!
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the translation of the bible took serval years to do and it was done by those that belived in the Lord Jesus Christ . for the bible say dont tamper with God’s Word. “For i testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, “Surely I come quickly.” Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” Revelation 22:18-21 and you guys say “RAmen you know you just taking that from the bible you just added the letter R in front of Amen, your guys theory on how this world got here and how we got here doesnt make any sence either. How does making a mountain and trees and a midgit start a whole world popualtion?PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT I would really like to know. You can even e-mail me at jesusdied4all316@yahoo.com. And I just wanna Say GOD BLESS you fellow Christians on here tring to tell these people bout Jesus and my God Bless your guys heart and help the rest of you see the light of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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RAmen to the cheesemakers and Rallelujah for seeing the light using my powerswitch. Bless all gods men created the past 5000 years or so. And goodnight from Holland as well.
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Aren’t Christians agressive little people. They also seem to use expletives quite easily – almost as if they are not very eloquent. I would have more respect for them if they would come out with a couple of hearty sea-oaths and curses occasionally.
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I live here and I don’t get offended. I think that people get offended because they feel convicted and freak out
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Way to go outstanding job. Thinking back to my mizzou days I wish I would have been a member of the noodly flock with “justiceforall.org” came to campus so we could have shown them the light.
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Awesome job fellow Pastafarians.
PRAISE THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!
I HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY HIS NOODLY APPENDAGE!
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I see that many of you are not impressed with what passes for religion and for Christianity now-a-days. For that much you could be commended, as you have noticed, many who wear the name of Christ have added to, modified, taken from, and in some cases completely perverted what Jesus and his apostles taught about God and about true religion.
James, the brother of Jesus, wrote in the Bible book named after him “JAMES” chapter 1:verses 26 & 27 (it can be found immediately following the book of “Hebrews” in the New Testament) I would very much like to consider your comments regarding what James had to say about religion. gf
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Wow. That. Is. Awesome.
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@ gfodyby,
Not really too different from our scripture. I refer to “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:”
“1. I’d Really Rather You Didn’t act like a sanctimonious, holier-than-thou ass when describing my Noodly Goodness. If some people don’t believe in me, that’s okay. Really, I’m not that vain. Besides, this isn’t about them so don’t change the subject.”
What do you think of that?
RAmen
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gfodyby: What do you mean by “true” religion? Are you a member of the Jewish Zombie with special powers cult? I think the Jewish story of the fatherless man born of a virgin is a bit silly really. For a start I’m not Jewish, and I don’t believe tribal lore from thousands of years ago, the people were so incredibly ignorant. If you really want to follow a “true” religion choose one with spaghetti!
RAMEN
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Mark Ellison (#88): The story of the fatherless man born of a virgin is not a Jewish story. It was created long before – it’s just that other cultures figured they couldn’t top it, so they appropriated it into their culture.
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Outstanding job, Mateys! For this, you should get first pick from the stipper factory.
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Volcanos! Beer! Arrrgghh!
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ah nice! i live in springfield. wish i would have seen this. good job, guys!
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I have long ago decided to become a Pastafarian and followed the doctrine as my father has before me. But there are one or more parts of the doctrination that I do not abide. For one I know there is no Beer Volcanoe in heaven. The Volcano is actually Jack and Coke. And I take great offense at the premise that the great FSMs name should be such pantomerised (our word for blasphemy) as to be associated with Beer. For it is us and our underling Raviolli and Gnocchi of the second aldente that we can not righteuously any longer belong to the Pastafarian religion in the sense it is now. And so I hereby declare the Triangular Pastacolonists as those who do now believe that our one goal is to be saved and bathed in the Volcano of Jack and Coke.
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