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Happy Holidays everyone! Thanks to Lena for sharing with us her festive pasta wreath, to Matthew for sharing his beautiful tree, and to Gail for the beautiful artwork.
Reminder — you can create a festive Holiday card with personalized message here. It takes only a few minutes and costs nothing. There are some new designs this year.
The Holiday[1] season is here again. How to Spread the Word of the FSM? Here are a few ideas:
• The Holiday e-Card machine is up and running again this year.
You can send a festive Holiday e-Card to your friends and family with a personalized message here. Below are a few of the designs:
• FSM Ministry Nominations
Also — this season, if you know someone with impeccable character, ready to serve as a spiritual leader, you can nominate them to the FSM Ministry.
FSM Ministers will receive Lithograph Paper Certificates and PVC Minister’s ID cards, and will be added to the official registry. You can order here.
• Or how about a festive FSM tree (this one courtesy of Trevor)
Here’s Tarun’s tree:
Amy spotted this amazing display on her neighbor’s house in Everett, WA:
[1] A note on Holiday: years ago, we noticed there was a shift in the way people expressed winter greetings — fewer “Merry Christmas’s” and more “happy holidays”. We concluded that these people were most likely Pastafarians (albeit many of them in secret) wishing people a happy Holiday – referring to our winter celebration Holiday, also known as ChriFSMas.
Sent in by Brendan
Very nice!
I hope everyone is having a great Holiday[1] season and a merry FSMas. Here are some of my favorite festive things this year:
Tyler’s pipe cleaner ornament
Bianca’s FSM tree
Martin’s FSM emblem topped tree
Laura’s fingerpuppet ornament
This dude sent me a Holiday greeting claiming to be a Pastafarian and I believe him.
Lily made this beautiful Holiday card.
[1] A note on Holiday: some years ago we noticed there was a shift in the way people expressed greetings this time of year — less and less Merry Christmas and more and more Happy holidays. We concluded that these people were probably Pastafarians wishing people a happy Holiday – referring to our winter celebration also known as FSMas.
The Tampa Tribune featured the FSM Holiday display in today’s paper, front page.
The sign says “A closed mouth catches no noodly appendages.”
And here’s the Christian nativity display that started all of this:
What do you think — next year, will the Florida Capitol allow any religious displays?
Thanks to Jay Nelson for the photos.
Great news! The Florida Capitol building has endorsed our religion by allowing an FSM Holiday display on its grounds.
The Florida Capitol building just made a move that Sarah Palin is likely to interpret as a hostile affront in the so-called “war on Christmas,” approving a religious statue from the Pastafarian group of their deity the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be included in the Capitol’s holiday displays.
You can read more at Death and Taxes magazine.
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Happy Holidays everyone! I want to share a collection of my favorite displays this season.
But first, check out what is to my knowledge the first ChrisFSMas song, composed by Rade – who, incidentally, makes his home in the same town (Hallein, Austria) as F.X. Gruber, who composed Silent Night.
Now that you’re in a Holiday mood, here are the displays:
Possibly my favorite this year, here’s Scott and Jeanette’s knitted tree-topper.
It would not feel like ChrisFSMas without a festive and historically accurate Nativity scene – this one, courtesy of Dmitry:
Here’s an ornament spotted on Dmitry’s Holiday tree:
Abbey found this Holiday stocking at her house:
And the FSM perched atop her tree:
He was spotted on a number of other trees as well:
He was also spotted in Holiday lights in a window:
and here He is in a yard:
Here’s Mark from New Zealand’s wreath:
And He was seen in a number of Holiday treats:
Happy Holidays everyone!
Holiday is the most important celebration of the year not only for Pastafarians worldwide but indeed, for everybody. It is the one day of the year where we are all Touched by His Noodly Appendages and we commemorate…well, nothing at all really, but that isn’t the point. Understanding this, the Most Irreverend Minister Tracy McPherson of the Pennsylvanian Pastafarians and her Noodly Flock have come together in request for a display celebrating Holiday.
Here is the link for the original speech given by Tracy:
And the second speech:
Being of course the world’s largest and most prominent non-religion that has a deity who is truly edible and Full of Complex Carbohydrates, there has been much media coverage of the request for Holiday displays:
http://www.examiner.com/article/pastafarians-fight-county-commissioners-for-holiday-display
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pasta-loving-church-tests-Pa-holiday-display-4073601.php
Unfortunately, the County Commissioners have not been Touched, and the request has been refused. However, the battle for reason continues. Tracy is pushing to get an appearance on the Daily Show with John Stewart, and you can show your support by emailing [email protected]
Here is an update pasted from Tracy’s facebook page, Evangelical Pastafarianism, on the refusal:
“UPDATE: West Chester, PA – Despite many phone calls and emails of support, as well as statements by Pastafarian supporters for Holiday Tree and from atheist supporters for the Tree of Knowledge, commissioners Farrell and Costello rejected t
UPDATE: Pastafarians can also enjoy the feeling of being evangelical by visiting the splinter church at www.evangelicalpasta.com
Hello, my name is Daniel (devoted Pastafarian).
I challenged my Gran to make an FSM cake for my 18th, and I’ve attached the result to this email. I thought it turned out rather well.
Awesome!
This is a picture about the celebration for the new year with my daughter, teaching her about the great miracles and love monesvol is willing to give to whoever wants to believe in him.
Thanks,
-Esteban. Bogota, Colombia
I’m happy to see that our religion continues to spread around the world. Welcome to our friends in Colombia.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American.
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