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16 Nov 2007, 2:22 pm

Pasta monster gets academic attention

By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer

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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16 Nov 2007, 2:32 pm

WWFSMD

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16 Nov 2007, 2:50 pm

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17 Nov 2007, 12:38 pm

About damn time!

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17 Nov 2007, 1:22 pm

Trigger11 wrote:

I'll keep my eyes open for any spaghetti haired Pastafarians in my neighborhood...

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17 Nov 2007, 2:01 pm

They have been touched by His Noodly Appendage. R'Amen.

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17 Nov 2007, 5:09 pm

wow; why is this satirical deity gluten-based ?! :wink:

can't help it; think Western god and gluten are inextricably linked, if only in their point of origin!

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17 Nov 2007, 5:12 pm

Oh brother. :roll:

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17 Nov 2007, 6:07 pm

This topic makes me hungry.

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17 Nov 2007, 7:21 pm

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This topic makes me hungry.

Quick! Get a jar of Ragu. :lol:

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18 Nov 2007, 5:13 am

Anybody for Pesto?

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