Bobby Henderson - The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

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.

Key Information
Authors		Bobby Henderson
Nonfiction Category		Humor • Religion
Book Editions
		Paperback240March 14, 2006Villard Books9.25"(h) x 7.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.55 lbs.9780812976564
First Line
		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.