This pseudo religion is a critique of religion in the form of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the universe and spends his time flying above us in the cosmos, presiding over humanity. The key is that it cannot be disproven by sceptics because it is created with the same fundamentals that are the foundations of Christianity. (Or words to this effect - it's late)
Here's a link to the Wikipedia article*: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
* = less likely to offend than any heavily satirical 'other.'
Did I say they didn't? I agree that intelligent design shouldn't be taught in schools and the inital idea of the FSM religion was a valid point to make, fair enough. However, to continue with it, like making the The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and saying he plans to "use the proceeds from the sale of the book to build a pirate ship, with which he may travel the world in order to convert heathens to the Pastafarian religion" is being smug and really puts holes in Henderson saying "I don't have a problem with religion." since he went out of his way to write such a thing.
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Ok, this is it in a nut shell. You can take any random events in history or in a book or almost anything, and string them together to support a completely wrong conclusion. This is what religions like Christianity have done. They take the word of a book and ignore the facts in the world around us.
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I think you are too blinded by your own beliefs to see what I'm talking about. That is why it is not something that can be said in a sound bite. What they are doing is putting a mirror in frond of Christianity and other religions and saying "this is what you look like to us". FSM is not a religion, it is a point.
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Respect? Respect is not the point. When someone looks at the Grand Cannon and says it was caused by the the great flood, I think about the FSM and laugh at the people. It's all the same...
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I didn't know about the ship. 
