Well Creativity has made it here. My second in the news spotting of the week :D
The 10 CRAZIEST Religions in the World! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZWcr4l-zz8#ws)
Thats actually quite good publicity with 260,000 views. I don't know whether to issue a fatwa (religious judgement) against the possibly disrespectful tone of these presumably jewish mongrels or just live and let live. I guess Ben Klassen beleived everyone had a right to their opinion. I will try to think of a corrective intelligent reply to their misunderstanding of our Creativity Religion.
Just for once, I would love to see the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster mentioned on these lists of crazy or unusual religions.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CFSM)http://whitenations.com/showthread.php?t=1981 (http://whitenations.com/showthread.php?t=1981)
The central tenet of CFSM is that an invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe 'after drinking heavily'. Pastafarians celebrate every Friday as a holy day - and consider pirates 'absolute divine beings'. (http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/he-boiled-for-your-sins-320.jpg)(http://www.venganza.org/images/noodledoodlewall.jpg)(http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wall300.jpg)
(http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/pastafarianism-cross-sm.jpg)
AboutThe Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, while having existed in secrecy for hundreds of years, only recently came into the mainstream when this letter was published in May 2005.
With millions, if not thousands, of devout worshippers, the Church of the FSM is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents – mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs.
Some claim that the church is purely a thought experiment, satire, illustrating that Intelligent Design is not science, but rather a pseudoscience manufactured by Christians to push Creationism into public schools. These people are mistaken. The Church of FSM is real, totally legit, and backed by hard science. Anything that comes across as humor or satire is purely coincidental.
Further
Pastafarianism is a real religion.
Most of us do not believe a religion – Christianity, Islam, Pastafarianiasm – requires literal belief in order to provide spiritual enlightenment. That is, we can be part of a community without becoming indoctrinated. There are many levels of belief.
By design, the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma. That is, there are no strict rules and regulations, there are no rote rituals and prayers and other nonsense. Every member has a say in what this church is and what it becomes.
To outsiders it makes us hard to define, but here are some general things that can be said about our beliefs:
We believe pirates, the original Pastafarians, were peaceful explorers and it was due to Christian misinformation that they have an image of outcast criminals today
We are fond of beer
Every Friday is a Religious Holiday
We do not take ourselves too seriously
We embrace contradictions (though in that we are hardly unique)
The grounds for ascribing divinity to the flying spaghetti monster are as sound as any grounds for divinity. You just dream up anything you like, make it up as you go along, do special pleading and threaten when all else fails.