Some things are just so ripe for parody

I'm not sure how I missed such a delightful "internet phenomenon" as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Especially one that has been around for six years.

Back in 2005 the Kansas State Board of Education decided to permit the teaching of Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution. Bobby Henderson wrote to the Board of Ed demanding his religion, Pastafarianism, to be allotted equal time beside ID and evolution in state science classes. Since the Intelligence Design people are careful not to describe the deity, why couldn't that intelligence be a god that looks like a pile of spaghetti and meatballs?

Soon there was a book, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. To take the mocking a bit further Henderson takes on correlation/causation by noting the rise in global temperatures matches the decrease in the number of pirates.

There is now a version of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam in which the bearded old man is replaced by spaghetti and meatballs that have sprouted a couple eyes. The little chrome fish, sometimes used as a symbol of Christianity also got a makeover. Christmas and Kwanzaa are replaced with a generic Holiday, so Pastafarians are delighted with the switch of greeting to "Happy Holidays" and duly thanked Wal-Mart. They also strongly support the annual Talk Like a Pirate Day. Along with your pirate costume, be sure to wear a colander on your head.