Pastafarianism.

Worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Worship It! Now!

All right, fine, don’t worship it . . . but don’t dismiss it out of hand, either. Faith is one of those wacky  things of which only humans are capable, and it’s a delicate balance between making sense of the universe in which we live, and coming off as stark raving mad. That goes for all of us professing belief in God, Jesus Christ who was his son and died for our sins, except for Jews who don’t, and Muslims who do but believe in His Prophet Mohammed, more,  Evolution (note the capital E there), Quantum physics, General and Specific relativity, Buddha, Zen, various Hindu deities, Orishas, Lwas, Science, Satan, or what have you. I didn’t care for Hebrew school much (washed out after two and a half years) but I did come away with this notion: Faith is good, idolatry is bad. Questioning authority is good, blind obedience is bad.

Either we’re all crazy or we’re all sane.  If my observation is worth anything, then God’s Children,  we surely all are, but some of us are consistently more childish than others.

My point here is that religion is inherently funny.  Laughter is inherently spiritual. Spirituality is inherently mind-expanding.

Just my two cents. </sermon>