The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson [61]
Fish fossils (c) Randy Mckown/Dreamstime.com
Peter J. Snodgrass, Ph.D. (c) Wilmy van Ulft/Dreamstime.com
Imam Perez Jaffari (c) Fred Goldstein/Dreamstime.com
Christians/Pirates graph (c) Simon Sullivan
FSM wafer (c) Erich Schoeneweiss
Boiling water (c) Chris Schluep
String (c) Tim Mak
DNA (c) Dreamstime.com
Future man (c) Tim Mak
Pirate skull (c) Scott Rothstein/Dreamstime.com
Spirogyra, courtesy of David Polcyn, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Chair, Department of Biology, California State University
Primitive life (c) Carolina K. Smith
Proteus flagella (c) Steven R. Spilatro, Marietta College
Uncooked spaghetti (c) Erich Schoeneweiss
Uncooked spaghetti in container (c) Erich Schoeneweiss
Kiwi (c) Tim Mak
Celtic cross (c) Lisa McDonald/Dreamstime.com
A Spirit Man Spearing Kangaroos, Western Arnhem Land, North Australia
Map of China, Werner Forman Archive
Egyptian hieroglyphics, D. Gagli Orti
Parthenon (c) Alison Frantz
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel/Niklas Jansson, http://www.venganza.org/images/spreadword/havetouched.jpg
The Founding Fathers, Wadsworth-Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West, The Philadelphia Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York
Japan surrenders WWII, National Archives and Records Administration
Einstein lectures, Messe Berlin
Moon landing, NASA
Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), detail from The School of Athensby Raphael
Leonardo Da Vinci, self portrait, Biblioteca Reale, Italy
Charles Darwin, The Granger Collection, New York
Sheep (c) Tim Mak
Desert (c) Wilmy van Ulft/Dreamstime.com
Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Department of Defense
Flying Spaghetti Monster by in-animator, http://www.venganza.org/images/spreadword/obey1.jpg
Pirate/Temperature graph (c) Simon Sullivan
Pirate-fish design, Niklas Jansson
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel/Niklas Jansson, http://www.venganza.org/images/spreadword/havetouched.jpg
Pirate/Temperature graph (c) Simon Sullivan
Pirate-fish stencil photographs (c) Erich Schoeneweiss
Flying Spaghetti Monster simulacrum photographs (c) Erich Schoeneweiss
Pirate/Temperature graph (c) Simon Sullivan
Ocean-current maps (c) Simon Sullivan
FSM Heaven (c) Tim Mak
Pirate-fish design, Niklas Jansson
About the Author
BOBBY HENDERSON is twenty-five years old and lives in Corvallis, Oregon. He holds a B.S. in physics, and although he has received several job offers from Las Vegas gambling interests (really, we’re serious), he currently supports himself as a full-time prophet. Bobby got his start as a prophet in 2005, shortly after the Flying Spaghetti Monster appeared before him and disclosed that He was the true creator of the universe. Satisfied that this was no hoax, Bobby mailed a letter to the Kansas school board in which he proposed that FSMism be taught alongside Evolution and Intelligent Design in high-school biology classes. To his great disappointment, he received no response from the school board regarding his revelation. So Bobby posted his open letter on the website www.Venganza.org (which can also be found through www.FlyingSpaghettiMonster.com), and soon he began hearing from other Pastafarians. It has been estimated that ten million people worldwide have been touched by His Noodly Appendage. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is Bobby’s first religious tome.
A Villard Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2006 by Bobby Henderson
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Villard Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to use preexisting material:
Kelly Black: Proof entitled “The Case for the Church of the Immaculate Induction” by Kelly Black.