On May 19 2006, I referred to the FSM. The creator of the FSM site has received lots of hate mail, which he has posted (here).
You will find my favourite excerpts below. Note that they've all been cut and pasted in order to preserve the original spelling.
“the Bible is the answer, it is what is to be differed to at all times”
“are you high when you decided to make up the spaghetti monster casue i think you were their is no such thing as the spaghtti monste.”
“i think it will b better if u stop n start acting more like a christian even if u r not”
“You don't need to question, God does all the thinking for us; (…) the Bible is flawless- it says so in theBible.
(…) As a Christian, I follow Jesus for his teachings of love and tolerance; it is people like you who make me sick, I hope you die in a lake of fire and get your eyes pecked out by crows, so that you may go to hell and exist for eternity in a lake of fire getting your eyes pecked out by crows. Wth love,”
“ok first off i want to start by asking do you really believe everything that you wrote on that page about us being created by a freaking giant spaghetti monster??”
“you are a stupid little guy with no girlfriend, so you're depressed.”
“Oh and just so you know, I know most of the people on you website, and hardly any of them belive it.”
“To beleive that a Pair of meat balls and spaghetti is responsable for creating the universe is poposterus..”
“You have said that you have many religious documents that support the fact that a Flying Bunch of noodles created the universe. I'd like to see these documents? Where are they? You show no proof. You say you have them. Yet where are they?”
“YOU STUPID FUCK YOU NEED TO FIND JESUS YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER.”
“However i do believe very strongly in science and so cannot agree with you on your "interpretations" of how pirates stop global warming,”
And my favourite:
“God does not allow for the type of logical fallicies you promote on your site. For instance, why would a perfect, infanate being have to rest for three days after creation? The bible clearly establishes a maximum one to six day resting ratio for the creation of the universe by an infante being. Ok, I'll be sympathetic to your tortured logic and explain how mankind knows that the bible is the word of god. 1. the bible is infallible.”
However
I started reading the mails laughing out loud. But I had had no exposure to hate mail before and I didn’t laugh all the way through. The rage, the violence and the venom in many mails are staggering (and unfit to be reproduced, here or anywhere else). They exude… Evil and, beyond laughter, I was actually incredibly disturbed by this window into humanity.
It's just poposterous.
Indeed, and some of that rage was quite humourous:
ReplyDelete"... I hope you die in a lake of fire and get your eyes pecked out by crows, so that you may go to hell and exist for eternity in a lake of fire getting your eyes pecked out by crows."
Hilarious! :-)
But then, maybe you also need to read it once more, because through all the hate and the rage, I found some rather enlighted comments - believing or not...
"Jesus Christ doesn't need you to believe in him. You need you to believe in him. I hope you will have read this with an open mind. I do apologize on behalf of my fellow Christians for anything they have done to alienate you."
"So push your science all you want to, but I hope and pray that you will come to a realization of the truth in your walk, and in your search for it. Because only the truth will set you free, and freedom is what you are searching for."
Hey, we might each believe in what or who we want, but the tools are the same. All the rage is a shame, but in the end it just reflects a simple human weakness: fear. Can we pretend never to be afraid ourselves?
My problem is not about fear. It's about taking a parody seriously. Perhaps these are the same folks who are up on their seats and red in the face from screaming abuse during wrestling matches.
ReplyDeleteOr more worryingly voting for the wrong *leader* after believing his parody...
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