The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
by Bobby Henderson
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Reading Club Session: 18 Dec. 2019
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Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today's fastest-growing carbohydrate-based religion! According to its founder, Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Intelligent Design has finally met its match -and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden.What drives the FSM's devout followers, the Pastafarians?
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Bobby Henderson
Bobby Henderson (born July 18, 1980) is the founder of Pastafarianism. He is a physics graduate from Oregon State University. He was born in Roseburg, Oregon.
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n 2005, Henderson founded the religion of Pastafarianism in response to the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to spend as much time teaching intelligent design as they did the theory of evolution.
Henderson claims that the Pastafarian theory of the origin of the world should be taught in the same way as intelligent design and the theory of evolution.
Pastafarianism asserts that the world was created in one day by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created a mountain, then a tree, and finally a midget. The dogmas of Pastafarianism are centered on references to noodles and pirates, and on parodies of creationist theories. Among other things, it is claimed that global warming is the result of the decline of the pirate population.
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