…and this is a 
I wonder if the FSM is Danish?
Category: Creationism
Posted on: March 28, 2006 4:47 AM, by PZ Myers
I am put to shame—the flying spaghetti monster gets far more entertaining hate mail than I do.
I learned this from an account in USA Today about the FSM, which also has this beautiful jewel of a quote:
"It's too bad that they'll get attention for this sort of drivel when we have a robust scientific research program that the media doesn't seem to want to write much about," Discovery Institute spokesman Robert Crowther said in an e-mail interview.
A "robust scientific research program"? Hee hee…I had no idea they had such comedians at the DI.
Comments
The core of meatballs would suggest that He is Swedish, not Danish.
Posted by: windy | March 28, 2006 5:44 AM
Surely someone as relatively high profile as yourself has gotten a few pieces of unintentionally funny hate mail.
By the way, the meatball is universal, much like the FSM himself.
Posted by: Bachalon | March 28, 2006 6:04 AM
And by "universal" I of course meant "international."
Posted by: Bachalon | March 28, 2006 6:05 AM
I have to disappoint you, the FSM is not Danish, but someone did build a Church of the FSM out of Lego bricks.
http://www.reasonablyclever.com/lego/fsm/
Posted by: TG | March 28, 2006 7:26 AM
The *best* hatemail from the FSM site:
"LISTEN DUMB*SS YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE SO COOL BECAUSE YOU THINK SOME P***Y SPAGHETTI MONSTER RULES THE F***ING WORLD YOU STUPID F*** YOU NEED TO FIND JESUS YOU STUPID MOTHERF***ER."
Posted by: KS lurker | March 28, 2006 7:48 AM
No, the meatball is universal. Just ask G'kar.
Posted by: Keith Douglas | March 28, 2006 8:27 AM
The FSM hid dinosaur fossils underground to "dupe mankind" about Earth's true age and
is the secret force behind gravity, pushing everything downward with its "noodly
appendage."
Brilliant. It explains so much!
Posted by: Shelley | March 28, 2006 11:03 AM
By "robust research," I can only assume that Crowther means those unicorns, leprechauns, martians, and all of the other usual suspects that the DI dredges up from munchkinland.
Posted by: Kristine | March 28, 2006 11:09 AM
Hey, did anyone else notice how awful the "Christians" who criticized the site were. That kind of language and hateful attitude is certainly not what was encouraged at my parents' church.
It's terribly sad that some people can't see their hypocrisy(sp?).
Everyone knows the FSM is secretly Chinese, where noodles come from;)
Posted by: Loris | March 28, 2006 11:50 AM
Such charming Christian attitudes! I've always wondered why you were supposed to love your neighbor at the same time as thinking they are going to hell for a different belief system.
Posted by: BrassyDel | March 28, 2006 11:54 AM
Just FYI The Great Flying Spaghetti Monster would be: "Det store flyvende Spaghetti Monster".
Not much of a revalation.
*Goes back to scribbling some innocent cartoons*
Posted by: Tomas | March 28, 2006 12:47 PM
I do find the FSM amusing, but as an argument against the DI, it is a little off. The arguments of the DI can be used to suggest other creation theories should be taught (see a fun little piece by David Brin in this quarters' Skeptic: http://skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n02_other_ID_theories.php) but FSM fits completely under the umbrella of vanilla ID. One should really promote a different, ridiculous, psuedo-scientific creation theory that doesn't fit under ID -- feel free to include noodles and meat balls though (yum).
Posted by: JP | March 28, 2006 1:29 PM
Loris and BrassyDel--what d'ya want to bet ;) that many of the e-mails were written by the same person? Wouldn't surprise me any.
Posted by: Kristine | March 28, 2006 1:30 PM
Yar, there do be an extraneous paren in that URL I posted: http://skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n02_other_ID_theories.php
Posted by: JP | March 28, 2006 1:31 PM
I find it amazing that
a] That many xtians miss the sarcasm of the FSM ploy
b] That so many xtians resorted to obscenities, blasphemy and outright threats, including veiled threats to his not-yet conceived(much less born) children
c] That so many ppl have such a lack of humor (or is that a xtian thing too?)
and I love the pirates / global warming chart!! (although I still say ninjas are cooler) ;-)
Posted by: flame821 | March 28, 2006 4:23 PM
They are.
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 4:52 PM
I'm sure the FSM's copious and slimy embrace would be, um, flexible enough to include ninjas as, oh, land-pirates.
Something of that ichor,er, um, ilk.
Posted by: Steviepinhead | March 28, 2006 5:37 PM
Kristine,
It wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Posted by: Loris | March 28, 2006 5:42 PM
I always thought that FSM was Italian....
Posted by: L | March 28, 2006 9:15 PM
My favorite rant in the FSM hate mail is from the guy who semi-literately managed to hit several of creationism's favorite talking points all in a row:
Meanwhile, the hunt for the elusive half-bird/half-fish fossil goes on!
Posted by: Zeno | March 28, 2006 11:02 PM
Ah, hate mail..
I had a hilarious exchange with some twat who took offense to my using "Jesus Christ" as an expletive once upon a time. He actually said "if you were here right now, I'd blow your head off!"
-jcr
Posted by: John C. Randolph | March 29, 2006 1:10 AM