Poll: Pastafarianism

[katsumoto03]

For the most part, I find that most Pastafarianists are just attention grabbing.

 

[fletch_talon]

"I would be but i live with my mum and I dought she'd take it seriously"

You do realise what this means right? He would say he's a pastafarian but he's worried that his mum would take it seriously. not him, his mum.

No it means the exact opposite.
"I dought (doubt) she'd take it seriously"
Meaning he doesn't think she'd take it seriously.
Meaning he wants her to take it seriously because it considers it a serious religion.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

The only tentacle monster I worship is Lord Cthulhu. One day he shall consume ALL, including this floating pasta deity.

 

[Zacharine]

There's a difference between a profound, enlightening belief and a bunch of kids repeating someone else's joke until everyone else gets sick of hearing it.

And that is part of what Pastafarianism is meant to make us think of: Tell me, what makes Pastafarianism someone else's joke, and Judeism, Buddihism or Christianity a profound, enlightening belief?

The number of followers? The age of the belief? The attitude of the followers? Truly, deep down, why isn't Pastafarianism just as profound or enlightened? Then try to apply that reasoning to every single major religion of the world today, as well as dead ones at their time (such as ancient romans in regards to worshipping Jupiter), and see if it holds up.

The other examples are real religions followed by people who really believe in them. Pastafarianism is a joke. It is a parody.

YOu are skirting quite closely to the No True Scotsman fallacy here.

If there were to be even a single person who fervently, really believes the FSM created everything and a beer volcano awaits him in heaven, would Pastafarianism be a 'real' religion?

Pastafarianism is ridiculous, yes, but only because of preconceptions just like this. We inherently assume that religions must be a dignified and serious or they aren't actual religions.

Pastafarianism does nothing but encourage smug atheists to further mock religions and become even more smug assholes than before. If you don't follow a religion, there is no reason to openly mock those who do, including with a parody religion.

Not even if the religion mocked happens to be a group of Young Earth Creationists whos actual beliefs are no more or less absurd than the parody presented?

Satire and parody can be powerful tools in exposing patterns or actions buried under the surface or generally left untouched by traditional criticism. Such as the case with supposed causation of crime to faith in Jesus - parodied by causation from lack of pirates leading in increased global temperature.

What makes religion above satire and parody, and even occasional mocking, when actors, sports stars, politics and politician, scientists and even wars and violence are not above it? What inherently is there in a religion or believers that it ought not to be made fun of?

 

[Zacharine]

But to be frank, if I thought there was any kind of afterlife, I'd prefer the Pastafarianist heaven.

Isn't the Pastafarian heaven a stripper factory full of beer or something?

Because THAT would be cool.

Yep, stripper factory and a beer volcano. The Pastafarianist hell is similar, but the beer from the volcano is hot and stale and the strippers carry STDs.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

on a parallel topic: why can't people be multi-religious

can one believe in multiple religions at once? even if it is some sort of logical fallacy (Orwellian double thought anyone?)

Tricky, I don't think there's room to believe in two 'gods', but there's enough people who take a buffet view of religion, picking and choosing the bits they like, and I'm cool with that, after all, most religions have a hell (oops) of a lot of good to them, and if you choose to ignore the rampant homophobia, sexism, racism, etc built in, and just go with the good stuff, then I think you're probably a better person than anyone taking their holy book as 'gospel' (oops again).

Anyways, all this is a moot point, since the day I found Tarvu! Becoming a Tarvuist was so easy, and now I can speak to an octopus!

 

[Wintermoot]

Pastfarian is meant as a joke religion I consider myself a pastafarian but dont realy do anything with it

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Simple enough question, are you a Pastafarian and what are your views on it?

I would be but i live with my mum and I dought she'd take it seriously

And you...do?

I thought pastafarianism was just a joke.

It is.
Either this guy is joking or he is part of the small group of people who take it seriously. Because they are not very bright.

Anyway, no.
Making fun of religion stops being funny when it is no longer playful ribbing. It just becomes athiests being elitist pricks again.
I say this as a non-religious person. And I know there are plenty of athiests who don't get all smug and in your face about it.
It's just the morons I dislike. They're as bad as Bible bashers.

"I would be but i live with my mum and I dought she'd take it seriously"

You do realise what this means right? He would say he's a pastafarian but he's worried that his mum would take it seriously. not him, his mum.

I assumed "dought" was a misspelling of "doubt". That or a horrible pun.
I guess it could be a misspelling of "thought". Or, you know, still a horrible pun.

 

[Kris015]

Yes, and have been for like a year now
All hail the great spaghetti monster!

 

[k-ossuburb]

I don't "believe" in anything, I only acknowledge what has legitimate mathematical or physical evidence to prove it is within the realms of reality.

However, that being said, if I had to choose one deity I think is the coolest then I'm going to go for Aphoticallata; simply because I made Her up and she's awesome. All hail the Mistress Of The Night, ruler of the Shadow and everything indefinable and indefinite.

 

[Denamic]

Simple enough question, are you a Pastafarian and what are your views on it?

I would be but i live with my mum and I dought she'd take it seriously

And you...do?

I thought pastafarianism was just a joke.

Just like all the other religions.

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

Simple enough question, are you a Pastafarian and what are your views on it?

I would be but i live with my mum and I dought she'd take it seriously

And you...do?

I thought pastafarianism was just a joke.

Just like all the other religions.

Zing!

OT: Considering Pastafarianism as the real religion is a joke here. It's making a critical statement about Creationism. You can't worship the FSM or practice Pastafarianism, you're merely agreeing with the criticisms aimed at religion.

 

[Gigano]

They've yet to discriminate or oppress anyone in their ideals or deeds, so I've got nothing against it, joke or religion as it may be.

I've got the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster lying around, but it seems like a - due - mockery of creationism, intelligent design, and the oppressive and discriminatory traditional religions in general. Taking it as a serious scripture seems to kind of miss the light-hearted point and purpose of it all.

 

[Kair]

Pastafarianism is an example showing the logical fallacy of religion, not a real religion.