My feeling when people refer to worshiping or believing in the “Flying Spaghetti Monster” is that the fsm is a mockery of faith in God, as though relationship with God is akin to a child having an imaginary friend.
I can assure you that as far as I’m concerned, the FSM is nothing more than what I explained earlier - JEDIT: and what Catbus just explained - (and what you can find on Wikipedia): “Because of its popularity and exposure, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often used as a contemporary version of Russell’s teapot—an argument that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon those who make unfalsifiable claims, not on those who reject them.”
Even though I am not a believer myself, I have the greatest respect for religion and for the intimacy of a relationship with God: my own godmother is a religious missionary in Africa (I swear it is true, I can only see her a few days every three years when she is back home). I’m the CEO of an IT company that publishes softwares for Catholic schools in my country. So believe me, I’ll never make fun of someone’s faith.
What I find ridiculous, however, are the people who want to take the Holy Bible literally, claim that the world was created in 6 days, and that it can be taught at school because it is as plausible as the theory of Darwinian evolution.
And that’s what bothered me in your previous posts for a couple of weeks: the words “literally”, “facts”, “truths” and “evidences” among your posts made me think that you wanted to put God, your faith and Cartesian science on the same level. As if God was a scientific theory in the same way as Darwin is…
In the meantime, I told you that I found that your words were clumsy, immature or disrespectful (not you, but your words), and you have clarified your thought in the sense of appeasement and nuance. Thank you.