The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
If you haven’t visited the Flying Spaghetti Monster website, do it now. I’ll wait.
Robert “Bobby” Henderson has written a great book on the religion he calls Pastafarianism, or FSMism. Like a never ending pasta bowl as the Olive Garden I sat down with my copy and devoured nearly half of the book in one setting. Subsequent helpings had to be taken in smaller doses, just like when gets nearly full from the never ending pasta bowl.
From his humble Disclaimer, “While Pastafarianism is the only religion based on empirical evidence, it should also be noted that this is a faith-based book. Attentive readers will note numerous holes and contradictions throughout the text; they will even find blatant lies and exaggerations. These have been placed there to test the reader’s faith.” to the assertion that the world was created by a drunken mass of spaghetti as the earth’s “baker” Bobby stretches the imagination with this ongoing spoof on “Intelligent Design” started as a joke when he wrote an open letter to the Kansas Schoolboard asking that the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory of creationism be taught alongside the “Theory of Evolution” and the “Theory of Intelligent Design”. What started as a joke has grown a life of its own. Pastafarians now claim a heaven complete with a beer volcano and a stripper factory.
If intelligent design or evolution have you scratching your head pick up a copy of the Gospel. It’s certainly something to think about, or at least to make you laugh. And hey, who wouldn’t want every Friday to be a holiday? Pastafarians do.
