Pastafarianism: A Satirical Religious Movement On The Rise
"It’s all this nonsense, but they do it as though they are just another intelligent design story, against evolution. And that’s what makes it so funny."

Pastafarianism, or The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is a religious movement that has been increasingly exposed to mainstream media in the last few years. Developed originally by Bobby Henderson, a Physics graduate from Ohio State University, in 2005, this movement has been considered a "mockery of religion.”

After the Kansas Board of Education considered implementing both evolutionism and creationism into their science curriculum, they were met with an alarming amount of opposition, including a letter from Henderson who discussed a satirical notion that the Earth is created by a spaghetti and meatball deity known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He stated that because faith enables Pastafarians to believe in "His Noodly Goodness" and that the beliefs are scientifically valid, this interpretation of creationism deserves to be taught in Kansas public schools as well.

This letter received an extremely positive response from the public and even went viral, which then led Henderson to write his Gospel. According to the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

"The Spaghetti Monster thought about making things. On the first day, He separated the water from the heavens. However, the Flying Spaghetti Monster soon became tired of flying and treading waters, so on the second day, He created land. He made patches of land that divided the waters, and from it sprung beer volcanoes. He spent the next three days creating the Heaven, the stripper factory in heaven, the Earth, the midget called man, and the rest of the universe- for it was so large- the He got so tired and made Friday a holiday."