Post by cooltiger413 on Apr 20, 2010 15:59:11 GMT -5
I know many of you already know (I already knew), but a lot of you didn't, so allow me to give you the story:
To answer questions as to whether Pastafarianism (or the FSM) is a real religion, here's basically the history of how it happened in ultra short form.
1) Kansas school board was asked to add creationism to the science curriculum, because it's totally scientific. Totally.
2) Their reasoning was that intelligent design can't be disproved, therefore must be a valid theory.
3) Bobby Henderson found out about this and realized it was incredibly stupid because ID is not a science.
4) He drafted this letter to argue that if ID could be taught, then so should his theory that the Flying Spaghetti Monster was responsible for gravity by holding everything and everyone down with His noodly appendages. He also argued that you couldn't disprove that a global decrease in pirates (of the seafaring sort) was responsible for global warming. After all these theories were equally plausible when compared to ID.
5) The Kansas school board read the letter, realized he had a point, and did not add ID to the science curriculum. Happy end!
6) Then the Internet found out and it became a phenomenon, and a lot of people started declaring themselves Pastafarians and such. Pastafarians are actually quite a mixed group, including not just atheists and agnostics, but also deists and a smattering of Christians (and probably other religions too). Most (as well as anyone can tell anyway) are either atheists or agnostics though.
Links that should be checked out:
www.venganza.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
I hope that clears some things up.
1) Kansas school board was asked to add creationism to the science curriculum, because it's totally scientific. Totally.
2) Their reasoning was that intelligent design can't be disproved, therefore must be a valid theory.
3) Bobby Henderson found out about this and realized it was incredibly stupid because ID is not a science.
4) He drafted this letter to argue that if ID could be taught, then so should his theory that the Flying Spaghetti Monster was responsible for gravity by holding everything and everyone down with His noodly appendages. He also argued that you couldn't disprove that a global decrease in pirates (of the seafaring sort) was responsible for global warming. After all these theories were equally plausible when compared to ID.
5) The Kansas school board read the letter, realized he had a point, and did not add ID to the science curriculum. Happy end!
6) Then the Internet found out and it became a phenomenon, and a lot of people started declaring themselves Pastafarians and such. Pastafarians are actually quite a mixed group, including not just atheists and agnostics, but also deists and a smattering of Christians (and probably other religions too). Most (as well as anyone can tell anyway) are either atheists or agnostics though.
Links that should be checked out:
www.venganza.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
I hope that clears some things up.
