{"id":367,"date":"2012-02-18T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2012-02-18T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T18:24:35","slug":"the-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-is-this-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/the-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-is-this-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The church of the flying spaghetti monster?!?! Is this for real?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and a friend of mine mentioned, in passing (as if this isn’t a big deal), how her brother-in-law recently got married under the traditions of the church of flying spaghetti monster. She kept on talking to get to some other point of her story, but I had to stop her right then and there. I mean, was she joking? Did she make it up? Did she really say The Church of the Flying spaghetti monster<\/a>?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sure, I’ve heard of the church of scientology. I mean, Tom Cruise is the President or something which obviously made that famous. But I can’t say I’ve heard of the Church of the flying spaghetti monster (FSM)? I have since confirmed it exists! Apparently, the church is 10 million followers strong and is continuing to grow. Followers of this religion refer to themselves as Pastafarian;\"\"<\/a>\u00a0you know, like Bob Marley the Rastafarian<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0I’m sure that just like me, this is starting to make complete sense to you, right? No?\u00a0 Weird… well, here are some of the details I was able to find out about this “secretive” religion. As\u00a0I was reading the information on the religion’s main website (http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/<\/a>), I couldn’t stop laughing.\u00a0 But within the first paragraph, there is a clear indication that this is not a joke.\u00a0 The website clearly noted that “Anything that comes across as humor or satire is purely coincidental.”\u00a0 So there you have it people, what is written below is not made up (although I wish I could have made it up myself).<\/p>\n