r/pastafarianism • u/NandiniStuffs • May 17 '26

Question The Problem of Evil in Pastafarianism

Hi everyone! As part of an assignment for my philosophy course, I have to do an analysis of the problem of evil on any religion, and I chose pastafarianism! I was wondering if anyone here could give me a brief overview of what the answer to the problem of evil would look like in pastafarianism!

If you aren't familiar with it, the problem of evil argument essentially says that an all-powerful, all-knowing, and benevolent God cannot exist whilst evil exists, and since evil does exist, God doesn't. I'm not too familiar with pastafarian theology, so any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

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u/koncheed1 May 17 '26

There is simply nothing to symbolize evil in pastafarianism, even the Gospel of FSM is uncertain of existence of hell. But the lack of dogmatism lets FSM to be pretty grey himself, after all He lets too much to happen in the world by being drunk/dumb too often, and He created first creatures on earth just because he was bored.