I keep hearing people on here talking about a Spaghetti Monster, what in the heck is that? Is this some sort of joke or something.
2007-07-01 09:00:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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It was originally made in reaction to the Kansas State School Board and their inclusion of creationism alongside evolution.
However, it now serves to show that because something cannot be disproved, it doesn't mean it must therefore exist. God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, The Celestial Teapot, The Invisible Pink Unicorn, etc... are all equal in that they can neither be proved nor disproved. If you are going to put your faith in one, might as well in all of them... or none of them.
2007-07-01 09:08:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a response to Creationism being taught as a "competing theory" in science classes. A worshiper of the FSM is called a Pastafarian and the religion is sometimes called Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The religion was founded in 2005 by Oregon State University physics graduate Bobby Henderson to protest against the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. In an open letter sent to the education board, Henderson professes belief in a supernatural Creator called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which resembles spaghetti and meatballs. He furthermore calls for the "Pastafarian" (a portmanteau of pasta and Rastafarian) theory of creation to be taught in science classrooms.
The central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, which created the entire universe "after drinking heavily."
The religious text of the Pastafarian religion is called the Loose Canon, which may be considered to be a play on loose cannon and the biblical canon. In place of the Ten Commandments, it contains The Eight I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts.
2007-07-01 16:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A long long time ago, they were going to teach creationism in school. One brave soul wrote a letter to the school board that there was just has much evidence for the spaghetti monster as god, and there for, should also be taught how the spaghetti monster created everything. Believe and you will feel his noodley appendages touch you.
Ramen.
2007-07-01 16:05:42 · answer #3 · answered by punch 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the one who created the world with his Noodly Appendage. RAmen!
2007-07-01 16:03:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
It is the stuff that comes out of my rear end after I eat spaghetti...Mental note to self, sont eat spaghetti anymore...
2007-07-01 16:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by AlleycatJo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't call it a joke. To do so would offend Pastafarians, and, perhaps His Noodly Appendage himself.
2007-07-01 16:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by Michael_Dorfman 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It is a joke or something, but can be a quite useful joke... or something.
also see pink unicorns and celestial teapot.
2007-07-01 16:02:40 · answer #7 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
His/Her/Its devotees fight over whether the sauce is with or without meat or mushrooms or onions or fat or added sugar
2007-07-01 16:05:59 · answer #8 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no.
go to http://www.venganza.org/ to get the whole story.
2007-07-01 16:03:55 · answer #9 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋