Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster goes legit
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is going to be the subject of three presentations to be made at the upcoming American Academy of Religion's annual meeting.
You can read an article about it on cnn.com.
I particularly like this anedote from one of the presentors...
He recognized the point when his neighbor, a militant atheist who sports a pro-Darwin bumper sticker on her car, tried recently to start her car on a dying battery.
As she turned the key, she murmured under her breath: "Come on Spaghetti Monster!"
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Flying Spaghetti Monster spotted over Hamburg, Germany
This is too funny.
Proof!!!
I saw that a while back and it's still good. It's particularly funny hearing "the flying spaghetti monster" in German :)
Is the irony lost?
I especially like this part-
Hell, why not let every religion into science class? Let's just do away with science altogether because really, does science matter in heaven? And why not teach English from the bible? And History?
I wonder if the irony and humor is lost on most religious people?
Obviously these people kind of get it. I think. It is a subject at their conference... But I have to wonder what the majority of Christians think of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. We've had many trolls here at UTI that honestly think Xianity is the absolute truth while all other religions are 'goofy' or apostacies.
Something that has always cracked me up is when I hear people making fun of Tom Cruise and the Scientologists as if they are weird. Weird compared to your religion I ask, and that's when the fight usually breaks out. I imagine most religious people will just get mad when the FSM is brought up.
Good job, B.A.
Friend of mine sent me that over the weekend, and I saw it late last night. Good to see someone here had a chance to write it up. The whole article is good, as it points up that there really is no way to discern a cult from so-called religion, and satire from absurd reality.
Jim Downey
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