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  <title><![CDATA[The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;i&gt;Can I get a &quot;Ramen&quot; from the congregation?!&lt;/i&gt;

Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM's devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it's the assuring touch from the FSM's noodly appendage. Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church's flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match&amp;mdash;and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden.

Within these pages, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts&amp;mdash;dispelling such malicious myths as evolution (&quot;only a theory&quot;), science (&quot;only a lot of theories&quot;), and whether we're really descended from apes (fact: Humans share 95 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, but they share 99.9 percent with pirates!)</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Our pasta who &quot;arghhh&quot; in the colander, swallowed be thy sauce. Thy serving come, thy strands be wrung, o forks as they are on spoons. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us of our starchiness, as we swashbuckle, splice the main-brace and cuss, and lead us not into Kraft parmese...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12793623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is one of the funniest things I have come across in a while. Bobby Henderson, a physics grad student, has ingeniously crafted a mock religion that effectively parodies the fundamentalist aspects of western religions (especially Christianity) that mainstream...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66429663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;All points of view should be available to students studying the origins of mankind,&quot; said president-reject John McCain in a 2005 interview.  The context was with regards to the teaching in schools of the theory of Evolution alongside the theory of Intelligent Design (ID).  This statement ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56462520">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The idea behind the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is a good one. It's modeled on the argument used by flat-earthers and creationists to try to get their nutty and intellectually dishonest ideas taught in the high school science classroom. If you thought they'd given up after the embarrassment of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69204690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About a year ago, I had a professor who I thought was rather clever. He was quite unapologetically anti-Christian. I thought he was fantastic. <br/><br/>He borrowed <strong>heavily</strong> from this book. Now, I think the book was well reasoned, but this was not the sort of class where one should present pop-cult...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61315504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[CAN I GET A &amp;#x201c;RAMEN&amp;#x201d; FROM THE CONGREGATION?!/ / Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today&amp;#x2019;s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine bei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6070307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is so blatantly the writings of the real Prophet of the One True God. Yes, the real and true God is the Flying Spagetti monster, and no one can prove it isn't. <br/><br/>It has much less wrong with it than the Christian Bible,and as we all know that that inconsistencies and mistakes are deliber...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53941058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Prophet (pasta be on his plate), has done a good job showing how FSMism is right up there with intelligent design and &quot;science&quot; as possible explanations for the universe.<br/><br/>Some parts are funnier than others--the historical stuff lags a bit.  But on the whole, this book is hil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70733122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, believes that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), who touches ones life with its long noodley appendages. Church doctrine is scientifically based, and therefore the church demands equal time in school with oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56861900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bobby Henderson, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Villard, 2006)<br/><br/>Can I get a Ra-men? The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is here, and pirates the world over rejoice. If you're familiar with the noodly one, you've probably got a good idea of what to expect here-- it's off...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12146723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very funny and entertaining read that pokes fun at the ongoing debate between evolution and creationism. It advocates an alternative religion that should also be taught in science classrooms because it is, after all, the tastier choice. <br/><br/>Also, global warming is directly related to the d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62063356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend introduced me to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.venganza.org/">The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster</a>.  It is a parody religion, something along the lines of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism">Discordianism</a> but more modern.  The church's purpose is to expose the flaws in modern religious institutions and spiritual beliefs, with special emphasis on intelligent design...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7949073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest, I was expecting more.  Then again, any religion that deliberately eschews dogma is going to have to pad out its holy book with a fair amount of filler material.  The <em>scientific proofs</em> of the existence of His Noodly Magnificence are pretty good, though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The idea of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (FSM) is great, and the book got a few laughs out of me.  Unfortunately, it's about 100 pages thicker than it needs to be.  Although it gets long-winded at times, the book also includes some goofy, poorly photoshopped pictures to break up the monotony, as well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23703818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely hilarious! I think I converted to Pastafarianism, my new religion of choice.  What could be better than a religion that praises pirates and endorses pasta? Additionally, it has a disclaimer about midgets! Midgets! Love this book.]]></body>
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    <review id="4248613">
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    <body><![CDATA[The three-star rating I gave The Gospel of FSM is deceptive, because I really did enjoy the idea of the book.  My issue is that it just went on for too long.  The point the book made (and fairly well, I may add) was laid out by about half way through its 260 pages.  Through that point, the book had ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4248613">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crap.  Thanks for pointing out that intelligent design is a con, Johnny Obvious.  Another book that caters only to people who already hold the same opinion, in effect eating itself.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I applaud his passion to poke some fun at the over-serious, too literal side of life. Wonder if recent pirate activity will indeed help slow the global warming!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was funny. I liked it enough that I have FaceBook translating everything into pirate english. It also confirmed my suspicion that pasta lovers are somehow more enlightened.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely entertaining, but not necessarily rave-review worthy... Skip the book and just troll through the website:  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.venganza.org/">http://www.venganza.org/</a>]]></body>
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