A Pastafarian pastor recently gave a prayer before a government meeting in Alaska on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Here's what you need to know about the religion and social movement.
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00:00May the great Flying Spaghetti Monster rouse himself from his stupor and let his newly
00:05appendages ground each assembly member in their seats.
00:15The Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world, we know that.
00:18We weren't around then and we didn't see it, but no other religion was around to see it either
00:23and our deity is as plausible as any other.
00:31We decided to do a pirate wedding mainly because it shows respect to the Pastafarian faith
00:36and Pastafarianism believes that all humans are descended from pirates
00:41and share 99.999% of our DNA with them.
01:00And a letter to the Kansas School Board, he insisted that if intelligent design was to be made
01:15a part of the curriculum, then the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster had to be there too.
01:19This is our first legal wedding internationally. We're getting legal recognition.
01:31We can now wear our headgear on passports, on driver's licenses.
01:35Russia got its first physical church.
01:49Do you believe in a Flying Spaghetti Monster too, bubble head?
02:07I'm called to invoke the power of the true, inebriated creator of the universe,
02:12drunk intolerator of all the lesser and more recent gods, and maintainer of gravity here on earth.
02:19May the great Flying Spaghetti Monster rouse himself from his stupor
02:23and let his newly appendages ground each assembly member in their seats,
02:28reminding them of the purpose of their election to this body
02:33and helping them to stay focused on the tasks at hand.