By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--April 14, 2016
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As Dan and I have written several times, militant atheists are so obsessed with a thing they don't believe in - namely faith - that they spend much of their time thinking up creative ways to mock it. This makes them feel clever, superior, and better than the neanderthals that believe in a higher power. If they actually got their wish, and religion became a thing of the past, their egos would collapse under the crushing weight of having nothing to deride.
For the moment, however, religion exists, their hobby is intact, and their mockingly-worshipped deity, "the flying spaghetti monster," is still a thing they think is funny.
As Newsweek reports:The Flying Spaghetti Monster was created—or, more accurately, revealed—to Bobby Henderson, a physics graduate student, in 2005. Henderson objected to the Kansas State Board of Education's proposal to teach intelligent design in public schools. The theory of intelligent design holds that the universe is sufficiently complex that it could not have come to be without the guiding hand of an intelligent designer—a god, in other words. But the theory, which is favored by many conservatives and evangelical Christians, does not specify which god must have had its hand on the tiller, hence Henderson's open letter to the Board of Education in 2005. "I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster," Henderson wrote. The FSM has since become a worldwide phenomenon and signal of protest against the erosion of the separation of church and state.They do this because they have a desperate need to make sure everyone knows just how much they don't believe in the things that other people hold sacred. Rather than just ignore it, they have an insatiable urge to deride your faith and force you to take their non-belief seriously. A few of them might even be deluded enough to think tha,t if they just troll hard enough, they can somehow alert the world to the folly of its ways.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, or FSM—a levitating mass of spaghetti noodles, meatballs and eyes—is no god, a federal court in Nevada ruled Tuesday.It seems an inmate named Stephen Cavanaugh was suing the state of Nebraska for $5 Million to compensate him for his "deep emotional, psychological, and spiritual pain." Evidently, he was pretty bent out of shape because prison officials would not let him don the "full pirate regalia" his phony religion demands.
But the U.S. District Court of Nebraska found that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a religion. "It is, rather, a parody, intended to advance an argument about science, the evolution of life, and the place of religion in public education," District Judge John Gerrard wrote in a 16-page decision.So, tough luck, pastafarians. You'll just have to go back to being annoying, dressing like pirates, and pretending to worship a wad of noodles without any of the protections of a real religion. While you do that, the rest of us will return to our daily routine of not noticing your existence.
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