Friday, November 16, 2007

Douglas Adams and Pastafarians - a theological discussion

http://www.venganza.org/

http://www.squidoo.com/FSM/#module1540830

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster

A few years ago I picked up a book by Douglas Adams. It was destiny. After reading the first two pages, just the intro, I knew I had found my favorite author.

Adams tells the tale of a young woman sitting in a coffee shop, when suddenly it hits her. The answer. The answer to everything. Suddenly she understood why the world was the way it was and what to do about that. (This was a mere 2000 years after people had nailed a guy to a tree just for saying we should be nice to each other.) She ran to the nearest phone, anxious to call somebody. Anybody. She got a man on the phone and began to blurt out THE ANSWER, but before she could the world ended. But, Adams explains, the book I was reading was not her story.

1 comment:

'Til Next Time said...

That entire series is true magic, and the movie was crap. Oh, how true that often is. Just remember, that the only true answer on any test is 42. I tell you this, 1) b/c I have an Adam's reference in my blog, and 2) that really should be an answer on a test you give. Think about it... it may be the greatest answer on any test that either of us ever give. P.S. I watched the Last Unicorn today, and I smiled when I saw that all the songs were performed by America.