When some of the world’s leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, 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.
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Unlike a certain other religion in the news, the First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn’t object to cartoon depictions of the supreme being. For one thing, He’s easy to draw — a tangle of pasta strands with a meatball body. In some pictures, He is shown reaching out to confer the blessings of life and happiness with what church members like to refer to as His ‘noodly appendage.’ Flying Spaghetti Monster could be the next big thing on the pop culture menu. Read More About:The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti MonsterBuy From:(Amazon.com USA)(Amazon.co.uk UK)
