How the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster became 'world's fastest growing religion'

A documentary is coming!

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Michael Arthur admits there are no official metrics to back up his claim that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is “the world’s fasting growing religion.”

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“It’s everywhere,” Arthur, the director of the new documentary I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, tells Yahoo Entertainment. “It’s kind of a play on words, but not really. Because 15 years ago there were [no members]. And now there are millions. You can go on Facebook and look at Flying Spaghetti Monster pages [all over the world] and they have 100,000 members. Poland… Italy, Spain, every country has these groups.” (Wikipedia estimates the movement more in the thousands than millions, and a Pew study from 2017 indicates that Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion.)

Of course, that’s if the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, can even be considered a religion — and exploring the question of what constitutes a religion in the first place? “And who decides that?” Arthur asks. “Because if the state decided that, then that's a violation of the separation of church and state. A state can't say your religion is [valid].”

Those themes are at the heart of I, Pastafari, a fascinating and more earnest examination at a subject rooted in satire than you might expect. While other filmmakers may have been tempted to approach Pastafarianism through a quirkier lens, Arthur offers a more serious look.


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