Jesus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster

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By way of exposition, I invite you to the website http://www.venganza.org/, which themadblonde was kind enough to post. Damn funny stuff.

For the record, I'm one of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit crowd. I'm not convinced exactly how personal it is, but I do accept Jesus as a savior. Read that again, because the terminology is important. The people that misunderstand me are the ones that don't get the slight but significant difference between "accepting Jesus" and "accepting Jesus as my personal savior."

Moving on. I saw a coffee mug on the Spaghetti Monster website that I felt needed commenting on. Okay, not the mug, as such, but the caption beneath it. The mug bore a cartoon of the Flying Spaghetti Monster creating mountains, trees, and a midget (funny), and the caption beneath (I guess this was meant as a selling point) "This mug holds coffee and pisses off Jesus."

Now, in my universe, God and Jesus both are sitting up there looking down at us little humans running around, some of us more than others, and wondering just what the fuck happened? Jesus, I'm certain right down to my ten widdle piggies, doesn't give a fig about coffee mugs, t-shirts, sacrilegious humor, intelligent design, Jerry Falwell, or the Kansas School Board. Why should he? In the end, what difference does it make? You either believe, or you don't. Better to believe in something, right? An it harm no one, do as thou wilt. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Don't sound so different, do they?

Like I told my friend Lezlie: Christianity's okay. It's the people that fucked it up. (Insert name of religion of choice, and re-read.)

Comments

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

A-men, blessed be!!