This guy..

You fucking brilliant man

I'm not against his right to believe in whatever he want.
But to compare any thousands year old religion to an admitedly joke religion is something make most people say "Are you fucking nuts?"

I mean, we are not sure what happened thousands years ago, and many people have been repeating what they believe, but it's clear someone made the pastafarian religion recently...

You know, I agree with you. However; we've come to an age where "seeing is believing" and honestly 9/10 the visions people had they were just accused of being high out of their mind or just under the influence. We've removed the realms of possibility and fact now has become "do or die". I don't entirely blame the Atheists; the Church has fucked the meaning of religion since the first time Constantinople was Established. We've gone backwards instead of forward and we began developing all they "types of Christianity" that it honestly confuses the fuck out of me too. I mean go to America you got "protestant" or some other fucking bullshit. Because of the Church and because of peoples extreme values (not even based on experience and intuition) all we've got is a religious cluster-fuck. I laugh at Jews, Christians, and Muslims; they don't realize we all have the same God. They don't realize the stories tie in. You wanna know the difference between a Christian and a Muslim? Muslims didn't see Jesus Crucified. Jesus is mentioned more times in the Qur'aan than Muhammed.

The reason why some people hate religious is because a) Ignorance (sorry but there is SOME people in the Atheist community who are pretty fucking ignorant. b) Feel like the church is a rip off and because the church lied about a lot of things they simply lost value in religion c) "Seeing is believing"- this has become the main doctrine of Atheism and with good reason too.

Something believers and non-believers need to understand is that at the end of the fucking day; we're all human. We can throw science at religion all we want; we're still human at the end of the day. Redundant right? It's because it's true. As a believer I will just simply say this; I don't mind if there is no heaven or hell after this life. If it's the void I'll be entering that's fine by me. I'm open to both ends. Just because we want purpose in our lives and we fear that there may be none; it doesn't mean we shouldn't live our best

so the point in believing in a higher power is because people cant handle the fact that it is all really meaningless and that there is no point...sorry but it just seems like a cop out to me. Your logic doesnt make sense, your argument is cyclical.

That's not the point. Since it held up it court, it's not considered a parody. Because of that, announcing you're an atheist should have cost him the trial as you're either an atheist or a pastafarian...

Wouldn't that make you agnostic?

It would appear that you were right and I was wrong. I tip my hat to you and wish you a nice day

Atheist is just not believing in a deity, for example, one could be Buddhist and atheist, as Buddhism lacks a deity.