Pasta Monster Gets Academic Attention
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21837499/?gt1=10547
"Indeed, the tale of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its followers cuts to the heart of the one of the thorniest questions in religious studies: What defines a religion? Does it require a genuine theological belief? Or simply a set of rituals and a community joining together as a way of signaling their cultural alliances to others?
"In short, is an anti-religion like Flying Spaghetti Monsterism actually a religion?"
Indeed.
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1 comment:
FSM is really just an irreverent variant of Bertrand Russell's Cosmic Teapot concept. Perhaps Pastafarianism is too silly for a serious discussion in teleology and epistemology but Bertrand Russell certainly deserves serious contemplation. The guy who (co)wrote "Principia Mathematica" has my ear, certainly in preference to idiotic mythology, like the Bible.
Frank (a devoted Russellian hard-headed pragmatist)
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