| "While Pastafariansim is the only religion based on empirical evidence, it should be noted that this is a faith-based book. Attentive readers will note numerous holes and contradictions throughout the text; they will even find blatant lies and exaggerations. These have been placed there to test the reader's faith..." (from the first line) From The Publisher:
CAN I GET A "RAMEN" FROM THE CONGREGATION?! 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-and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden. Within these pages, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts- dispelling such malicious myths as evolution ("only a theory"), science ("only a lot of theories"), 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!)
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In 2005, Bobby Henderson invented the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a mocking response to the Kansas State Board of Education?s decision to include intelligent design as part of their curriculum, arguing in an open letter that if the schools were going to teach that a creator (i.e., God) was responsible for human development, it was equally valid to teach that a Flying Spaghetti Monster was so responsible. His satiric website, dedicated to the propagation of FSMism, or "Pastafarianism" soon developed a cult following. Now, for the first time, Henderson presents the tenets of this "religion" in book form, demonstrating how many natural phenomena can best be explained by the actions of the FSM (e.g. the FSM causes gravity by pushing down on everything with His Noodly Appendages), and how the divine influence of the FSM and His Chosen People, the Pirates, have pervaded history.
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