WARNING – Really Christians? I miss the old days of just telling me i’m going to hell, but death threats? Tssk. Tssk. I must be striking a nerve.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, The new hip, ironic religion.
It’s a bizarre group of atheist who worship a flying spaghetti monster as their god and creator of the world. We assume their savior is Chef B’ordee. Three guesses what they served at their last supper? That’s right, pasta and a big cup of crazy.
The wacky group claims they are sane and just trying to take a jab at Christianity and organized religion. More specifically they are attacking the idea of intelligent design and questioning why it’s being taught in public schools. Wait isn’t that Darwinism? Come on atheist get original… then again I don’t think Darwin worshipped a spaghetti monster. Ok so maybe we can’t attack the COTFSM for not being original, but we can accuse them of having a terrible group acronym.
So why a spaghetti monster you ask? Well, it’s the groups way of saying if you believe in a god why not believe in a spaghetti monster. They’re trying to make an extreme point that just resonates as weird. But what do you expect from a church founded in America. The US does not have a great track record for creating their own religions (seriously death threats – i’m honored!). Just look at the Mormon faith, one guys get 10 wives. Amazing idea? Yes but I’m not sure that’s what Jesus had in mind Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith also said Jesus was an Native America but that’s another story. Back to the pasta tale: The group started in America but has since grown and expanded into Europe and even Asia.
Meet Niko of Vienna, Austria, a devoted member, or as they are called: Pastafarian’s. Mr Alm has recently made news for being denied a license for 3 years because of his attempts to exercise his religious rights. Can you believe it, religious intolerance in this day and age? Niko fought for three years because he wanted to wear a kitchen colander on his head for his license photo. That’s pretty normal right? In an attempt no doubt to make another ironic statement, Niko claimed it was to keep out the migraine inducing radiation given of by the flying spaghetti monster. For years he appealed to the government and even had to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Since it was for religious reasons, he was eventually granted the right to wear his traditional religious garb which again, is a kitchen colander.
This is truly a victory for their religion! Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ONE – Christianity ZERO.
So whats next for this religious crusaders? He plans to take his fight to the big stage and will petition Austria to recognize the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a recognized religion.
The BBC reports that Alm’s next step is to call on the culture ministry in Austria to officially recognize Pastafarianism as a religion. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was started by an American, Bobby Henderson, in 2005 when he wrote an open letter as a satirical response to the Kansas State Board of Education’s decision to permit the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution in science classrooms.
Best of luck to Mr. Alms but just remember Pastafarian’s if you succeed in becoming a religion and keep fighting to keep religion out of school, then there goes spaghetti Tuesdays.
I know, I know bad joke. But so many death threats in a week will kill your sense of humor. Guess they really didn’t like the Pat Robertson article! But as always, I chose the high road. So my stoic, noble response can best be summed up by saying GFY.
Good Friday Y’all!
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