November 16, 2007

R-amen!

Religious scholars mull His Noodly Appendage in defining religion:

When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend for the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion...

It was the emergence of [the Pastafarian] community that attracted the attention of three young scholars at the University of Florida who study religion in popular culture. They got to talking, and eventually managed to get a panel on FSM-ism on the agenda at one of the field's most prestigious gatherings.

The title: "Evolutionary Controversy and a Side of Pasta: The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Subversive Function of Religious Parody."

"For a lot of people they're just sort of fun responses to religion, or fun responses to organized religion. But I think it raises real questions about how people approach religion in their lives," said Samuel Snyder, one of the three Florida graduate students who will give talks at the meeting next Monday.
How cool is that?

30 comments:

LanceThruster said...

Totally cool!

All glory and honor to His Noodly Appendage!

Anonymous said...

It's officially the fastest growing denomination in Australia, as per their last census. Bless his noodly goodness.

Anonymous said...

Having been recently initiated into the Tantric aspect of The FlySpagMon practice, the question is NAWT "How COOL is that?" but "How WARM is that?" And the answer is..."Hot!" particularly when the warm savory sauce slides through the slits in a slap and tickle as the Linguini rises through the charkras, snaps the third eye playfully en route to the grand ultimate and great YUM!

Unknown said...

LMBO!!! I told the Pastarfarians in the Yahoo answers forums about it, and they were a little disconcerted. One girl even said: "...NOT COOL." The Monster is a fun subject!

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