Flying Spaghetti Monster

2008-09-27T23:16:18Z

Nigeltheginger:

[[Image:FlyingSpaghettiMonster.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Artist's rendition of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.]]
The '''Flying Spaghetti Monster''' is a [[parody]] that began as a critique of the [[Kansas Board of Education]]'s decision to allow the teaching of [[intelligent design]] in public schools. Arguing that intelligent design was a thinly-veiled attempt to bring [[religion]] into the classroom, Bobby Henderson constructed "Pastafarianism" as a new theological system and argued that it too should be taught alongside evolution and intelligent design.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/27/AR2005082700019.html?nav=most_emailed Verbatim: Noodle This, Kansas - Washington Post]</ref> on the notion of "teaching the controversy."

[[Richard Dawkins]] uses the flying spaghetti monster in his book ''[[The God Delusion]]'' attacking belief in [[God]].
Some people use a purported belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pastafarianism as a thinly-veiled attempt to mock [[Christianity]] by reducing it to the level of an invented [[religion]] like Pastafarianism. However, the point which seems to have been missed by said Christians is that both religions are in effect the same thing; however, one was started by a man with too much time on his hands in the 21st century, whilst the other has had 2,000 years and countless millions of people fooled to establish itself as [[real]].

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== External Links ==
*[http://www.venganza.org Official website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster]
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