The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Probably the most successful parody religion thus far has been Pastafarianism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Oregon State University physics graduate student Bobby Henderson created the religion in 2005 in response to the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative theory to biological evolution. 

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is said to be invisible and undectable, and created the entire universe "after drinking heavily."The FSM planted all evolutionary evidence to test the faith of believers. The FSM is able to change scientific measurements by reaching out with His Noodly Appendage.

Pastafarian heaven is believed to contain beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Hell is similar, but with stale beer and the strippers have VD.

Pirates are claimed to be "absolute divine beings" and Henderson's original letter included a correlation between global shrinking number of pirates since the 1800s and global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters.

Recently a breakoff group of pastafarians has created the Reformed Church of the Alfredo. The differences are that ninjas are the truly divine beings, His sauce is Alfredo, as opposed to marinara, and there are some different rituals.

See also:

  1. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  2. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  3. The Reformed Church of Alfredo at Uncyclopedia