The Flying Spaghetti Monster

**Flying Spaghetti Monster**, also known as **FSM**, is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.

## Overview

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is, according to Pastafarianism, the Supreme Being and the creator of the heaven and the earth, and all the beer volcanoes and stripper factories found in it. He became the representations of movements against the teaching of Intelligent Design in public school biology classes. He is almighty: all-powerful and omnipotent. Just like any other gods, he could perform miracles, forgive sin, and give men eternal life.

## Appearance

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has, as the name implies, a similar appearance to a large spaghetti, possessing several spaghetti "tentacles", two meatballs on its face, with its eyes being vaguely similar to a snail's antennae.

## Powers and Abilities

**Contaminant Immunity:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster is immune to poisons, toxins, venoms, viruses, bacteria, parasites, pathogens, allergen, etc.

**Dermal Armor:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster has or can generate an innate armor as a part of their body, which is resistant to attacks, harm or pain, and temperature extremes. The armor varies from obvious, physical defenses, such as scales, thick skin/fur, natural shield, armor or shell, in-organic skin, etc, to bone-nodules below the skin, particularly wide/sturdy rib cage, blubber, or simply dense muscle.

**Disease Immunity:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster's immunity, digestive, and other organ systems are enhanced or evolved far beyond that of a normal human. They are completely immune to every form of disease brought on by bacteria, viruses, or even parasites.

**Edible Body:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster is made of or can transform their body completely into edible matter.

**Enhanced Durability:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster's physical durability, the ability to withstand damage, is extremely high, allowing them to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects. The Flying Spaghetti Monster can withstand bullets, grenades and low to medium explosives (equivalent to ten tons of TNT), survive falling from the top of tall buildings and building collapse, withstand beatings from superhumans, take getting beaten with steel rods and bars, and survive massive amounts of blood loss.

**Enhanced Endurance:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster can endure physical stresses beyond the capabilities of the greatest humans, enabling them to do things such as: tolerate extreme amounts of physical pain, having limbs ripped off or having bones completely crushed, being corroded by acid, and even resisting extremely painful headaches for prolonged periods of time. They can also hold their breath for longer intervals, like 2-3 hours, and always remain calm through any stressful or painful situations. The Flying Spaghetti Monster can also tolerate extreme hunger, unbearable thirst and strong urges to sleep, being able stay active for 48 hours to 72 hours without food, water and sleep.

**Enhanced Lung Capacity:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster has the ability to use the oxygen that resides in their lungs more efficiently than normal, allowing them the ability to hold their breath for extended periods of time (up to 2 or even 3 hours). The Flying Spaghetti Monster may also have birdlike lungs included in their biology that allows the Flying Spaghetti Monster to keep their lungs constantly filled with fresh air.

**Oxygen Independence:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't require oxygen, enabling survival in airless environments indefinitely. This unique trait allows them to simulate powers such as Atmospheric Adaptation, Aquatic Breathing, and Vacuum Adaptation.

**Enhanced Strength:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster can raise thousands of pounds to tens of thousands of pounds. Being able to carry out any offensive action with the force of a massive vehicle. The Flying Spaghetti Monster can lift cars, trucks, buses, moderate to large sized rocks, tall trees and are often beyond the physical limits of humans at their maximum. The Flying Spaghetti Monster can perform extremely powerful attacks and cause a lot of collateral damage such as destroying large bridges, buildings, heavy vehicles, large trees, and killing huge creatures that require military grade weapons, such as moderate explosives, with only their physical strength.

**Limb Extension:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster can stretch their limbs (arms, legs, neck, torso, etc.) to great lengths. This ability allows the Flying Spaghetti Monster to extend their limbs to faraway areas to strike opponents at a distance and defeat long-range attackers.

**Unraveling:** The Flying Spaghetti Monster can unravel and reform their body partially or fully into threads/ribbons/etc.

## Myths and Legends

The **Flying Spaghetti Monster** (aka Pastafarianism) is a “religion” created by a man named Bobby Henderson. Mr. Henderson created this satire in protest of the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to teach intelligent design (the idea that since everything is complex, therefore God exists) as an alternative to the theory of evolution.

Basically, he was asking, "If silly religious ideas like Intelligent Design need equal time in high school biology classes, then why can't other silly religious ideas be taught along with it?" So, in protest, he invented a silly set of religious beliefs and demanded that they have equal time in biology classes alongside theories of evolution and Intelligent Design. His point seemed to be that teaching Intelligent Design in schools is as absurd as teaching that the Flying Spaghetti Monster made the world and tricked scientists into believing in evolution.

Mr. Henderson's point however is misguided on some of his points, with the first being the fact that he suggests that there is in fact no evidence for belief in God, since the existence of God is something personal for each person who can use everything around them to believe in the existence of God, or also to deny it. He also did not demonstrate what the evidence for the existence of God and the evidence for the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are to show that the existence of both was equally foolish. In fact, this comment smacks of an a priori rejection (a rejection of evidence even before the evidence is given) of the notion that evidence can be given for the existence of God.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is, in essence, a funnier version of the Pink Invisible Unicorn and Russell's teapot.