Is it just me, or is the tagline for this picture just plain disturbing. The five simple words somehow evoke an extremely disturbing feeling.

This, my dears, is the flying spaghetti monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) worshipped by The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism".

Highlights of the beliefs of this "religion" are as follows:

1. An invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the entire universe "after drinking heavily." The Monster's intoxication was supposedly the cause for a flawed earth. All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians' faith — a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster "is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage."
2. Pirates are "absolute divine beings" and the original Pastafarians. Their image as "thieves and outcasts" is misinformation spread by Christian theologians in the Middle Ages and by Hare Krishnas. Pastafarianism says that they were in fact "peace-loving explorers and spreaders of good will" who distributed candy to small children, and adds that modern pirates are in no way similar to "the fun-loving buccaneers from history." Pastafarians celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19.
3. Global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of pirates since the 1800s

Read more about Pastafarianism here, link stumbled upon courtesy of Albin The KING OF PASTA himself.