Have YOU been touched by His Noodly Appendage?
I originally posted this video to fandom_lounge, but the wanky reaction to it is worth noting.

A video of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in all of His starchy glory appears on a blog. But if you scroll further down to the comments, people have managed to spectacularly miss the point of the video and Pastafarianism itself.

FSM Apostate: While FSM proves nothing, the point is this: there is just as much evidence for the existence of FSM as any other deity.

At the risk of inciting violent rioting among the FSM-believing population, let me make the math clearer:

Reasons for believing in FSM = Reasons for believing in [BibleGod | KoreshGod | GreekGod]

Reasons for believing in [BibleGod | KoreshGod | GreekGod] = 0

therefore ...

Reasons for believing in FSM = 0

John Brownlee: "Reasons for believing in [BibleGod | KoreshGod | GreekGod] = 0"

There's actually significantly more reason to believe any of those exist than "0", and I say that as an atheist who doesn't believe in any of them. When you start spouting rank dismissal like this in the form of pseudomath, the only applause you get? From people just as insufferably smug, who already happen to agree with you.

It's a stupid meme amongst atheists (my peer group, for the record) whom are no where near as impervious to standard mob-mentality Groupthink in the name of their beliefs as the Christians or other god-believers they love to snort at. In other words, it's pretty much a cute character design incarnated as an open symbol of their own hypocrisy.

There's nothing inherently ridiculous in believing in God: it all comes down to whether you think the begin point of existence is sentient or not.

Matrym: I think you guys are missing the original point of the FSM. He was "discovered" in order to argue that a school teaching a deity such as Christianity's God must also teach the FSM, and in doing so, block any Gods from being taught.

The point was never to disprove another religion's God, it was to prove that such an entity could not be proven, and should therefore be absent in a public school's education.

Chris: 1) The debate over the true meaning of the Flying Spaghetti Monster really helpes illustrate a couple of things. First, it shows how rapidly an idea may be repurposed by other people to make it mean most anything they want. Second, it shows that geeks are way too fond of acronyms.

2) As for the 'clever' person who pointed out that there is as much proof for the existence of 'God' as any other diety. Wow. Did you come up with that all on your own? Look pal, if there was proof then there wouldn't be any need for faith or trust as both are based on unknowability and doubt.

Jay: Don't you people believe the real God is going to be slightly offended by comparing him to a flying Spaghetti Monster?

Roger: "There is as much proof for the existence of FSM as there is any other deity"

There is? Wonderful, could you point me in the direction of a first-century messianic Jewish sect who, on their crucifixion of their messianic candidate, generated a FSM based theology? Given your self-confidence, I figured you must have some first-century evidence that the scholarly world is dying to see.

And on and on. Good grief.

For those of you wondering just who FSM is, read His Wikipedia article.