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 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, Islam, Judaism and other religions by comparing them to the sanity of invented religions like Pastafarianism. This, of course, assumes there is no proof for any religion, which is the subject of much controversy.

Powers and Abilities

According to the letter by Bobby Henderson, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has the following powers:

• Flight
• Invisibility
• Can travel through solid matter
• Can create and alter anything
• Plants evidence and changes test results to confuse evolutionists

References

External Links

• Official website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster