Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

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The religious parody Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a book written in 2006 by Bobby Henderson about the Flying Spaghetti Monster .

Emergence

The book was written between 2005 and 2006 and published in US English on March 28, 2006 . It was written in Oregon , where the author lived at the time. It was first published by Villard Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, which in turn is a division of Random House , Inc.

In addition to the translation into German, the following translations are available: French, Russian, Danish.

According to Deutschlandfunk, the book is especially tailored to a “student discipleship”.

Language and style

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Henderson uses familiar words, formulated with clear sentence structure, clarity and accuracy. The US English is very simply decorated with Bobby and marked colloquially. In the opinion of contemporaries, his masterly mastery of the subject and of the American colloquial language shows itself in the change of the tense and the aspect in the narrative pieces.

Language and style were also rated as pubescent , because heaven is described as a place with a beer volcano and strippers. Bobby's narrative style is characterized by these criteria as well as by his lively change of tense or aspect .

The author uses primarily descriptive past tense and past perfect tense , historical present tense and prophesying future tense . The sentences are usually strung together paratactically and linked by the particles (but, and). Peripetia are often marked by the use of the narrative present and a predicate-subject sentence when it refers to divine revelations or the role of pirates. Typical of the style are also the specific article in proper names ("the FSM"). With recourse to the history of religious literature, he makes particular use of the rich fund of the Septuagint . Here he takes up in particular the biblical history of the origins of the world and theological terms that he incorporates into his gospel (cf. sun, moon, stars, Eden, flood, tower).

In general, Bobby reports from the point of view of an authoritative narrator ; only in the foreword, the closing words and the acknowledgment does the author address his readers from the first-person perspective. He built his book in an episodic-anecdotal style. The author himself points out at the beginning that it contains "numerous gaps and contradictions", as a missionary stylistic device "perhaps even brazen lies and exaggerations".

According to Welt, the work needs to be revised and it needs “a kind of Council of Nicaea ”, at which, as by the Church Fathers of Christianity, “ heresies and absurdities” would be banished.

Structure and content

There are different ways of structuring. The structure of the German original edition is presented here, which assumes a rough threefold division of the work:

Part 1: Justification of the need for alternative theories under the heading “Science is wrong here”.

Part 2: Presentation of world history and answers to the great questions of humanity under the heading "Declaration of Pastafarianism ".

Part 3: Overview of the pamphlets and holidays under the heading "Propaganda".

Alleged pastafari with noodle roll

The book begins with the sentence:

In the beginning was the word, and the word was "Arrrgh!"

This explains the creation of the universe by the FSM. Later in the work, the author concretizes the story of its origins with the sentence "Let there be light". What the content of the Gospel is about is initially summarized "simply, clearly and clearly" by Bobby as follows:

“We want to tell you all about our sky.

We want to see how the things Es chose for you look like: the pirate rift.

We want you to enjoy Friday as His chosen holiday.

Before doing this, however, you should learn a little more about us.

What do we stand for? Everything that is good.

What are we rejecting? Everything that is not good. "

classification

The book is called a parody of religion .

According to the standard, it has achieved the status of an established religion, since the “ holy scriptures ” allow different exegeses .

reception

According to the one-source theory, the book is the authoritative text of Pastafarianism , which in turn is based on it.

The religious critic Richard Dawkins was "delighted" by the appearance.

In Germany, under the influence of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Germany e. V. the superstructure of the gospel with the "earthbound" manifesto of evolutionary humanism , as Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2016 reported. The church itself names the ten offers of evolutionary humanism and the eight most dearest to me as the basis of its work.

expenditure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson: 9780812976564 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ L'Evangile du Monstre en spaghettis volant . ( google.de [accessed on May 19, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster_RU_official_edition.pdf. Retrieved May 19, 2020 (English).
  4. ^ Bobby Henderson: Evangeliet om det flyvende spaghetti monster . Gyldendal, ISBN 978-87-02-21033-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 19, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Pascal Fischer: Religious zealots demonstrated: Bobby Henderson's "Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster". DLF, May 7, 2007, accessed May 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Pascal Fischer: Religious zealots demonstrated: Bobby Henderson's "Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster". Deutschlandfunk, May 7, 2007, accessed on May 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Bobby Henderson: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Original title: The Gospel of The Flying Spaghetti Monster translated by Jörn Ingwersen). Goldmann Manhattan , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-54628-2 (paperback edition: Goldmann Taschenbuch 5462, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-54262-8 ), p. 101 ff.
  8. ↑ Bobby Henderson: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Original title: The Gospel of The Flying Spaghetti Monster translated by Jörn Ingwersen). Goldmann Manhattan , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-54628-2 (Paperback edition: Goldmann Taschenbuch 5462, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-54262-8 ), p. 9.
  9. ↑ Ulrich Baron: Faith: The Universe of the Spaghetti Monster . In: The world . March 23, 2007 ( welt.de [accessed May 14, 2020]).
  10. ^ Bobby Henderson: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster , 2nd edition, Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 2008, p. 101.
  11. ^ Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Germany eV for Pastafari. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  12. ^ Bobby Henderson: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster , 2nd edition, Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 2008, p. 11.
  13. ↑ Daniela Wakonigg / Winfried Rath: The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Religion or parody of religion? Alibri , Aschaffenburg 2017.
  14. ↑ So spoke the spaghetti monster - derStandard.at. Retrieved on May 14, 2020 (Austrian German).
  15. ↑ Ulrich Baron: Faith: The Universe of the Spaghetti Monster . In: THE WORLD . March 23, 2007 ( welt.de [accessed May 14, 2020]).
  16. ^ Richard Dawkins : Der Gotteswahn (original title: The God Delusion , translated by Sebastian Vogel ), 2nd edition, Ullstein , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-550-08688-5 , p. 76.
  17. ↑ The Philosophical Weekly Commentary - The Spaghetti Church is Smart! Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Weltanschauung. In: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Germany. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .