Have You Been Touched By His Noodley Appendage?

5:23 pm EST November 20th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Awesome.

When some of the world’s leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They’ll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion.

The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

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One Response to “Have You Been Touched By His Noodley Appendage?”

  1. Zython says:
    November 22, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    And the First Church of Suzumiya Haruhi wasn’t invited? For shame.