There are people who take it seriously. The nature pastafarianism’s (not sure if thats right) religious doctrine lends it to being more chill vibes than anything else though. Still can be a bit of a social barrier when trying to interact with practitioners. However, that’s not unique to pastafarianism. Most atypical social clubs have that barrier.
The gospel is just: “don’t take religious text literally” everything else is just for fun and jokes. There are extremely few people who are serious about it, my brother. I’ve never met one and I’ve been a pastafarian minister for like 12 years
to make the argument that religion should be free, it needs to have everything a “real” religion does
i’m not sure that anyone is performing marriages as a minister of FSM in a way that anyone involved actually believes that god is a flying spaghetti monster… the point is to make a point that if you can claim christian, muslim, hindu, etc religious things apply without proof then you can claim anything applies without proof
its about making an obvious farce of something that’s farcical… it’s not as effective if you don’t look like the thing you’re trying to say is farcical, because then people can easily subvert the discussion with irrelevant things because it’s “obviously not the same”
it’s only a social barrier if you think religion isn’t somewhat farcical and take offence to that opinion… in which case, well, you and pastafarians were never going to get along
I am afraid that this could have a non ironic following in the USA.
Get a few celebrities on board and some mansion in LA.
There are people who take it seriously. The nature pastafarianism’s (not sure if thats right) religious doctrine lends it to being more chill vibes than anything else though. Still can be a bit of a social barrier when trying to interact with practitioners. However, that’s not unique to pastafarianism. Most atypical social clubs have that barrier.
The gospel is just: “don’t take religious text literally” everything else is just for fun and jokes. There are extremely few people who are serious about it, my brother. I’ve never met one and I’ve been a pastafarian minister for like 12 years
Right well I couldn’t really ask for a better demonstration
i don’t think you really understand the point…
to make the argument that religion should be free, it needs to have everything a “real” religion does
i’m not sure that anyone is performing marriages as a minister of FSM in a way that anyone involved actually believes that god is a flying spaghetti monster… the point is to make a point that if you can claim christian, muslim, hindu, etc religious things apply without proof then you can claim anything applies without proof
its about making an obvious farce of something that’s farcical… it’s not as effective if you don’t look like the thing you’re trying to say is farcical, because then people can easily subvert the discussion with irrelevant things because it’s “obviously not the same”
it’s only a social barrier if you think religion isn’t somewhat farcical and take offence to that opinion… in which case, well, you and pastafarians were never going to get along
I think we are talking of different levels of seriousness.