{"id":660,"date":"2007-10-10T07:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/religious-conversion\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T07:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:59:33","slug":"religious-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/religious-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter much thought and careful consideration, I’ve decided to leave the ranks of atheism and become a Pastafarian<\/a>. The only other idea that received serious consideration was Sun worship, as outlined by George Carlin<\/a>.
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\nWhy change from atheism? It really comes down to a philosophical choice to be “for” something rather than to attempt to prove a negative to a mass of people brainwashed from birth to believe in myths. Since the world seems to be driven by myth, the Pastafarian<\/a> myth set is the funniest, most appealing, self-deprecating, and least harmful set I could find to adopt. And after close examination, I can say this myth set is as plausible as any other, so why not?
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\nIf you find current religious myth sets and\/or atheism don’t quite work for you, come on over to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> and give it look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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