Flying Spaghetti Monster and atheist quotes

[Mossi]

I figure if I'm going to have a personal mythology that's completely made up, I want it to be more fun than traditional religious dogma (which is decided UNFUN as a general rule). Therefore, I join the (tongue-in-cheek) ranks of the Pastafarians. You know, the pirate theme just seems to be more fun and has more followers than the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Not to disparage IPU, but its followers are fewer, and hey, I'm a follower.

It's funny how atheism is still so hush hush. Like I have friends who have no problems preaching to high heaven (get it?) on Facebook, but god forbid (another, ha) I should talk about my absolute NONBELIEF.

Which is why it's fun to discuss FSM. Really, the theology involved makes just as much sense as theirs, and I can argue it just as well.

What's your favorite atheist saying? Mine:

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo

 

[jennlsnoopy]

If I was going to follow anything it would be FSM. I find it funny and interesting at the same time.

One of my favorite quotes:

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours". – Stephen Roberts
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[tristessa363]

Not necessarily one of my favorite quotes, but a good commentary on the impractical nature of religion:
"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God."
-Denis Diderot

P.S. - I am partial to both unicorns and pasta. How could I possibly choose?

 

[tranced]

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? – Epicurus

 

[tranced]

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree

 

[tranced]

and from the bible....

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32

"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Matthew 27:46

 

[ScottinSoCal]

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree

This made me LOL.

 

[cappadoc]

Me too! Needs to be a poster.

 

[tranced]

Me too! Needs to be a poster.

As you wish?

 

[Gx3vi]

not specifically atheist but I like it just the same.

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken christian." Herman Melville

 

[ScottinSoCal]

Hmmm. Looking at that picture makes me realize what a strong streak of B&D and S&M runs through christianity. No wonder so many priests/pastors like their hookers wearing black leather.

 

[Gx3vi]

again not specifically atheist, but funny at any rate.

"If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly with trees." Lao Tse

 

[tranced]

“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so”

 

[samuraijill]

"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)."
— Sam Harris

may you all be touched by His Noodly Appendage, Ramen.

 

[tranced]

This one is for you samuraijill.
"This then, is how you should play: Our Pasta, who "Arghh" in the colander, Swallowed be thy sauce. Thy serving come, Thy strands be wrung, On forks as they are on spoons. Give us this day our garlic bread, And forgive us our starchiness, As we swashbuckle, splice the main-brace and cuss, And lead us not into Kraft parmessan, But deliver us from Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, For thine are Meatballs, and the beer, and the strippers, for ever and ever. R'Amen."

 

[samuraijill]

This one is for you samuraijill.
"This then, is how you should play: Our Pasta, who "Arghh" in the colander, Swallowed be thy sauce. Thy serving come, Thy strands be wrung, On forks as they are on spoons. Give us this day our garlic bread, And forgive us our starchiness, As we swashbuckle, splice the main-brace and cuss, And lead us not into Kraft parmessan, But deliver us from Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, For thine are Meatballs, and the beer, and the strippers, for ever and ever. R'Amen."

and now you may remove your full pirate regalia............

 

[bobsyeruncle]

“Hail meatsauce, full of beef. The Spaghetti Monster is with you...”
~ Ragu on Pastafarianism