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To protest the teaching of intelligent design in Kansas schools, the founder of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bobby Henderson, wrote an open letter satirizing these beliefs through the existence of a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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After getting no response from the Kansas School Board, Henderson posted his letter online and gained popularity and notoriety for his ideas.
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The website, Boing Boing, rode the waves of the newly popular Flying Spaghetti Monster with a reader-created design of the church that parodies the Christian Ichthys symbol. Along with that, the site also parodied a challenge by a Christian Fundamentalist to prove with evidence that Jesus was not the son of the FSM, offering one million dollars to someone who could. -
With the spread of its popularity through large newspaper articles, Henderson received a $60,000 advance from a publishing company to write the church's gospel. He claimed he would use the money to buy a pirate ship to spread the religion. The book describes the basic Pastafarian beliefs and origins such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster creating the universe as well as getting drunk in the process and a pirate captain receiving a parody of the Ten Commandments from the monster. -
A Pastafarian known as Solipsy began a project with their fellow churchgoers to create what is essentially the bible for the church.