Why? Well, it has all the attributes of the other major world faiths - omniscient all-powerful creating deity, mystic rituals and sayings, stories and commandments ("I'd-really-rather-you-didn'ts", actually, but it comes to the same thing) and in essence is exactly as valid as any other major religion. It has thousands of followers.
The one thing it doesn't have? Schisms or factionalism. Its members haven't fallen out or disagreed about fine detail, they haven't nailed any statements to any doors, they haven't set up breakaway movements, they don't snipe at each about slight disagreements in doctrine, they don't use violence against one another. This suggests that Pastafarianism is the One True Religion the world has been waiting for. Its members are in perfect agreement. Can anyone disagree with this view? How is a religion that bickers and fights and breaks into sub-sects and starts wars better than one whose members exist in such harmony?
2006-08-31
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