Flying Spaghetti Monster

Alright, alright, so I was looking for a clip from this past week's south park that dealt with religion and teaching either Intelligent Design or the theory of evolution in schools to children. It was hilarious and definitely had some social merit.

Personally, I do not think that religion has any place in schools ( or in government for that matter either ). I think that VALUES and MORALS from religion are good to teach, but not under a religion pretense i.e. don't be a good person because Jesus said or because you will be rewarded in the after life, be a good person because it is the right thing to do.

Anyway, in the South Park episode, an Atheist is talking to Ms. Garrison and says that she would be great if she wasn't into this whole "God thing". She says that she believes in God because his existence cannot be disproved. The Atheist then says to her "what if I told you that there was a Flying Spaghetti Monster? Would you believe that just because it cannot be disproved?". She then becomes an Atheist.

I thought this was absolutly hilarious. As we were talking about it at work yesterday, a friend of mine mentioned that the FSM was from a website... and in fact it is!! Check out http://www.venganza.org. In particular, read this guy's letter to the Kansas City School Board.
After that, check out this article on Wired.com -> http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/atheism.html.

I personally am not an Atheist. I think that there are many things that do in fact exist that cannot be proven or explained. I however, am not religious, nor do I understand why people believe what they do believe. Then again, just because it is not right for me does not mean that it isn't right for someone else. The problem that I have is when others try to force their beliefs on others when they clearly want nothing to do with it. This has happened throughout history and continues to happen today ( see: almost any war ).

Why can't we all just believe what we believe and let others do the same?