I was out last weekend at a friends when i saw a red book lyin gon his floor when i picked it up i started to laugh at the name “ The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”, at this point in time i thought it was a joke book one of them books created as a non-fiction piece of writing. However when i come to read parts in the book i gathered it wasnt, when mmy mate came back we had a lengthy discussion which turned in to a healthy debate over what the book was really meant for. I stood on the bench with the God created earth/Big bang theory and he was adiment that this was a generally good enough theory of how the world was created. It began to intrigue me alot over the next few days when i got home and done some research on this new religion and some some very interesting things about it. Its up to you how you view it as religion takes different people but i will say this, i did laugh and i do continue to at the very thought of this theory; yet there are people in this world who do not have the same opinion as i do.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster founded in 2005 by Bobby Henderson, 25.
Bobby Henderson a physics graduate from Oregon State University protested the Kansas State Board of Educations decision to only teach intelligent design as an alternative theory to biological evolution in our world. He sent a letter to the education board where he said that he believes in a supernatural being called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which resembles spaghetti and meatballs. He also said that schools should not only teach one belief about how the world was created and for the ‘Pastafarian’ theory of creation to be taught in science classrooms.
Since this event occurred the media exposure of the FSM become incredible and through this the religion become highly popular with many people throughout the world, especially in America. Henderson described himself as a concerned citizen when he sent the open letter regarding the FSM to the Kansas Board of Education. The letter was sent before the evolution hearings as an arguments against the teaching on intelligent designs in the biology classes within the state, he stated that both his theory of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and intelligent design had equal validity where human evolution was concerned.
Those who believe in the ‘Pastafarian’ theory follow a set of beliefs as the main one is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, which created the entire universe “after drinking heavily”. Another is that all evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians’ faith a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. (god created everything). The most outrageous belief is the Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains beer volcanoes and a stripper factory, hell is similar except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD. Now this to me seems a little eccentric but to other people who follow this they follow these beliefs because they believe that heaven contains all of these things for them in the afterlife. If you think about this theory logically it is not so ‘out there’ when you uncover more about the religion, Muslims suicide bombers believe in death they will get 72 virgins and that is what they truly believe. Some Christians believe that when they die they will float up to heaven and be welcomed by gold holy gates at the front of heaven, and people do not say they are crazy because so many people believe it that it has become part of the religion itself. They do however take something similar from the Christian belief system, the religious text of the Pastafarian religion is called the Loose Canon. In place of the Ten Commandments, it contains the Eight ‘I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts’.
As the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory spread it come up against a lot of criticism and laughter from on-line bloggers and newspapers. In August 2005, BiongBiong,net announced they would pay $250,000 to any person who would show empirical evidence that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, this was later raised to $1,000,000 after the challenge made by a reader. In November 2007, three talks were delivered at the American Academy of Religion’s in San Diego. Academics said that the program may get many laughs but it was a serious debate on the essence of religion, it explored questions such as, “Is an anti-religion like Flying Spaghetti Monster actually a religion? Or “Does religion require a genuine theological belief or simply a set of rituals and a community joining together as a way of signaling their cultural alliances to others?”
‘The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monste’ris their equivalent of the Bible. It shows and talks of biblical figures with characters such as Captain Mosey, a pirate and the FSM equivalent of Moses. The Gospel contains the Eight “I’d Really Rather You Didn’t.” It also provides information on how to convert people to the religion of the FSM and explains many of the religion’s beliefs.
