Thursday, October 30, 2014

Facebook's Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

So great is the embarrassment of the existence of this group that the good Reverend Silas T Sasquatch is hanging up his colander and may never eat pasta again.  There are just as many missionaries in that crowd as for the Church of the Infinite Suffering of the Mangled Babies and Ducks.

The Great God of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is Richard Dawkins, the Elvis Presley of Atheism, and thus they have violated the First Commandment which says clearly 'Thou shalt take no God before the Flying Spaghetti Monster.'  They took Dawkins and now they're going to burn.  Sorry.

The first question in meeting this crew is, "Uh, honey, are you quite sure you understand the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not real?"

Don't wait for an answer as that will just confuse the hell out of them.


Dawkins did some interesting research in genetics many years ago and he came up with the idea of 'extended phenotypic expression.'  This is the idea a gene in one organism can have expression in some other organism.  There are some interesting phenomena in nature that warrant such thinking but thus far you'll take his idea on faith as follow-up research does not appear to have confirmed it.

So now he's a writer for the Great Cause of Atheism and the result is a crew who are just as repressive as the one they claim they revile.


There's no joke in it anymore as it's become a parody of a parody.  For example, there's the annual billboard on a bridge into New York City at Christmas to tell you how much of a moron you are if you believe anything religious.  I wouldn't be waiting for a world spiritual awakening behind that one but, wtf, it could happen, right.

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