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Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster
CNN Online ^
| 11/16/07
| Anonymous
Posted on 11/16/2007 11:54:15 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion.
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TOPICS: Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antichristian; atheistsupremacists; bigotry; enjoythevoid; evangelicalatheists; pitythefools; psalm53; religion; religiousintolerance
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Pastafarians of the world, unite! Come and be embraced by his noodly appendage.
To: Non-Sequitur
Good grief, is that thing *still* around?!
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posted on
11/16/2007 11:54:38 AM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud RUSH REPUBLICAN! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
To: Non-Sequitur
Some people have way too much time on their hands.......
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posted on
11/16/2007 11:56:08 AM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Non-Sequitur
Is it related to Yoko Uggoth ~ that which screams without a voice?
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posted on
11/16/2007 11:57:18 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck is the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aren't going.)
To: Non-Sequitur
To: Non-Sequitur
Fool in Heaven: “Yes LORD, I understand that you created the Earth and everything that is in it, but, but, but you see I really didn’t mean it when I put my faith in a plate of Linguine.”
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posted on
11/16/2007 11:59:19 AM PST
by
TexGuy
To: MrEdd
Basically anti-Christian parody--here's a
wiki on it.
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posted on
11/16/2007 11:59:50 AM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud RUSH REPUBLICAN! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
To: pillut48
There is no one nastier than an atheist hipster.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:01:28 PM PST
by
Macrinus
To: Non-Sequitur
May the Noodly Appendage be with you!!!
To: Non-Sequitur
God will not be mocked. I can’t see the humor here.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:01:55 PM PST
by
ItsOurTimeNow
('Post Tenebras Lux '- It's not a breakfast cereal!)
To: Non-Sequitur
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:02:36 PM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
To: MrEdd
No, it’s is also not related to that which must not be named, or anything else written about roughly 100 years ago.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:02:39 PM PST
by
faloi
To: Red Badger
Looks like something out of a nasty manga.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:03:37 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: TexGuy
Fool in Heaven: Yes LORD, I understand that you created the Earth and everything that is in it, but, but, but you see I really didnt mean it when I put my faith in a plate of Linguine. Yes, but OUR Paradise has a stripper factory and a beer volcano.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:04:12 PM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
To: Non-Sequitur
this is what happens when colleges are subsidized by tax dollars. you just get lots of liberal silliness
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:05:17 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
To: Non-Sequitur
Pastafarians of the world, unite! Come and be embraced by his noodly appendage.The message aside, the satire IS very funny, I gotta give them that.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:05:32 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Willardcare abortions $50 each, $25 per twin. Ask for S&H Stamps!)
To: Non-Sequitur
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:05:44 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
To: Non-Sequitur
I wonder how many shriveled up old crones have been assualting the Admins to have this thread kacked....
To: Non-Sequitur
Actually, the funny part is that by invoking the FSM, the anti-Design crowd loses their argument: “Okay, so you admit that the universe is clearly designed, but are simply arguing about the Designers form?”
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:07:56 PM PST
by
Buggman
(http://www.hebrewroot.com)
To: Non-Sequitur
The whole FSM thing misses the point when Pastafarians insist that FSMism be taught alongside 'intelligent design.' FSM IS a type of intelligent design.
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posted on
11/16/2007 12:08:02 PM PST
by
Sloth
(Democrats and GOPers are to government what Jeffrey Dahmer and Michael Jackson are to babysitting)
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