William Lobdell’s new memoir, Losing My Religion, is released today. It has received very good reviews and I’m looking forward to reading it.
Mr. Lobdell has graciously agreed to give away five signed copies of his book to Unreasonable Faith readers.
To win, follow these steps:
- Let me know you’re a reader (new or old) through this form. [now closed]
- Pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that you’re the winner and everyone else is a big fat loser.
- If you’re not already a subscriber, consider subscribing via RSS or email.
The winners will be announced on Saturday (Feb 28th) Sunday (Mar 1), so spread the word!
(If you don’t know much about RSS, find out the advantages of using it.)
Update: Thanks to everyone who entered! The giveaway is now closed — I’ll announce the winners on Sunday, Mar 1. I didn’t have time to draw the names today.
Update 2: The winners have been announced!
Oh.. nice one!
though i’m not subscribed to your rss or anything, i just “manually” surf to your site to see if there’s an update.
Gah. .oldfashion girl that i am ;)
I have already sacrificed a pile of delicious Ragu-slathered meatballs to His Noodliness this morning – I shall upgrade my offering to include a goat and possibly my first-born son after seeing this…
I’m pretty sure I felt a noodly appendage touch my shoulder when I filled out your form, so I take that as a sign!
I’m a relatively new reader; I happened across Unreasonable Faith thanks to a link from a friend (to your “How to Stump Anti-Abortionists” article). I’ve been reading back through the older posts and have to say I am continually impressed by the quality of your writing and subject matter. This is one of the most entertaining and readable atheist blogs on the web. Keep up the fantastic work!
I prayed to the monster while flying in a Cessna 172sp AND eating spaghetti. Hopefully that helps me out a bit.
And since I’m a Christian, I hit a few folks on the forehead so they’d fall over, shake madly, and be “healed” from their aliments and free from their liberal democrat drunken homosexual orgy in order to please my republican, blond haired, blue eyed, English-accent God dressed in stained glass. (surely you hear my sarcasm)
Come on bro, don’t go all one-sided on me. I hope someone other than a free-thinking atheist can win. I don’t charge for my thoughts so technically I think free too.
I’d love to read the book.
As I knelt down to pray, a bright light appeared above my head, and decended upon me. Two noodly personages appeared before me. One of them called me by name, and said, “This is my beloved son, hear ye him!”
I was taken aback, because I did not realize that the FSM had provided a savior.
But he said “Measure… None of the other posters is correct. You will find the book, hidden in a box in the hill cumorah.”
Because of this true experience, I know that the FSM has granted my heart’s desire, and will make sure that I receive a copy of the book.
I beseech Thee, O Noodly One, that Ye may visit Thy iniquity upon these heathens, and that Thy gaze shine favorably upon my humble mortal flesh, that Thee shall bless my unworthy being with sacred tomes as speaketh by Thy servants Daniel and William. This I pray in Thy blessed name, RAMEN!
I will be reading this book regardless if I win a copy. Although I have to admit I gave a shout out to the spaghetti monster just in case.
I agree with Stephen Webb that Christians should read this book. It would be healthy for them to understand how a devoted believer of Jesus can walk away from Christianity. And not for the immoral and selfish reasons Fundie Christians like to preach. It is the most common question I get from Christians on my blog. How and why did I walk away from Christianity? The better question is why it took me 33 years to do it.
I look forward to reading William Lobdell’s story.
I’m a reader.
That’s what I always pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for.
I’ve been subscribed forever.
Daniel, you read 100 blogs a day in 30 minutes? Even with a feed reader that means you spend on average 18 seconds on every blog… You must be a very fast reader or do you have a direct download link to your memory?
In any case, I only read 2 or 3 blogs a day so I’m quite happy with the old-fashioned way of doing so. But maybe this book is a good incentive to change.
BTW, I ate the FSM last night…
Pesto be with you for the chance to win! Ahhrrr!
Just so you know, I’ve had immaculate conception with His Noodleness.
Or is that I’m experiencing immaculate conception….
…at least that’s what I’m telling my boyfriend….
I believe His Noodliness will multiply the five books into thousands so we can all have one! Ramen!
Daniel, I have been reading your blog for about a month or so (I am subscribed) and very much enjoy it. It has been a long road for me breaking free from Christianity, and it’s so great to have a blog like this one to connect with others. Thanks!
I exploded a blue whale in sacrifice, because I had to cover my ass with 10,434 known gods and godlings. This way everyone gets a chunk.
Guaranteed winner here. I mean, some majority of them should be happy to get anything at all, these days.
I’m also rattling my drawers for Anoia.
Losing religion is a good thing. Its oppressive, burdensome, endless rule-keeping devoid of love and not associated with Christ’s true offer & message.
Praying or “venerating” to Saint FSM is Idolatry.
NO meatballs on Friday! :p
I pray to the noodly trinity of FSM, FFM, and FRM. Some say Rotini is not a noodle, but only a tube of pasta. They are heretics, and shall one day be cast down into the crunchy pit of corn nuts.
As Krishna said – all prayers go to the Supreme Being (FSM?). As I live far away in South Australia, it takes my wishes (prayers?) that much longer to reach the Supreme Being (Him, Her, or It)
Hey there.
I’m a relatively new reader (subscribed on 2/9). I had to pare down my feeds a couple weeks ago, and under the atheist category, I forced myself to keep only my 5 favorite. What can I say, you grew on me (we’re part of the same formerly evangelical club).
All people who have always been nonbelievers: kindly back the hell off!
This book is called “Losing My Religion”, after all.
So leave it for those of us who had one and lost it, and are still gagging up the old hairballs!
I’m a reader! I’m a subscriber! And I’ll do the praying bit if I have to!
My beloved Lord Noodly:
I know that I am unworthy, being born sauceless in lingu-iniquity, after the way of all man-icotti, in evil and devoid of sun-dried tomatoes.
And now we sin, condoning gigli and fagottini, and losing our way in fettucce and gomiti. We know deep in our artichoke hearts that we are merely al dente, and beseech you to cook us until we we are as the ballerine.
May we praise you singing Avemarie. For thou hast made us but a little lower than the angel capellini.
May our spirits fly as do the fluttering farfalle.
May I win a copy of this book.
Yet I know in my artichoke heart there is life… there is love love LOVE…
THERE IS MORE!
We but await the end times:
There will be a SECOND HELPING!
rAmen.
Where is this supposed to be announced? And wasn’t this supposed to be announced today? I am confused.
Yes, it was supposed to be, but I wasn’t able to get to it. The winners will be announced tomorrow. Sorry for the confusion.
So Daniel, I was wondering with a friend who also didn’t know, and decided to go straight to FSM’s prophet (after Bobby Henderson, of course), and ask:
how do you do a “drawing” from among email addresses?
Surely you don’t have to print them out, and close your eyes, and put your finger down on the page, like a Christian finding out what God wants him to do that day.
There must be a program that does that?
“I shall upgrade my offering to include a goat and possibly my first-born son after seeing this…”
mark: I dont have children, so the FSM will have to be satisfied with a symbolic offering.
I guesse all of those insects I killed as a child will have to suffice as an offering to the FSM.
If that isnt enough then I guess Ill be sent to hell for not bringing glory to the FSM.
Thanks Amanda! That’s very kind.
That, my friend, sounds like irrefutable and scientific evidence for the existence of the FSM! Perhaps we should let Ray Comfort know.
I’m also manually “subscribed”. But I have no excuse…I’ll try to add you soon, haha.
As long as you’ve prayed to the FSM, I’m sure it doesn’t matter what “religion” you are.
But you wouldn’t love to read the answers to the questions you asked in the Ted Haggard forum.
Or, apparently, to answer the questions put to you in the answers.
C’mon, bro, don’t go all evasive on me. Or on the rest of your answerers/questioners awaiting your responses on the other forum.
You’ve flown over here, with or without a 172, and overflown the questions awaiting on the earth down below you. (But not beneath you.)
Stephen Webb:
WELL?
Speak, oh great white wonder.
Are you implying that praying to the FSM is a religion? IT’S NOT!!!! It’s a relationship! It’s communion! We eat his flesh and drink his blood! It has NOTHING to do with religion! It’s spiritual…communion…tasty…worship.
Ah, Tele, you are a seeker. ReLiGiOn isn’t where it’s at, my friend… love, LOVE LOVE…
know in your heart the FMS is there… It’s the heart, my friend, not the (old) religion…
THERE IS MORE!
But I will never answer your (specific, direct) questions… I shall evade the questions of Bill and Ty and Wintermute unto eternity…
All you need is love………………………………………….
THERE IS MORE!
It is a religion – and you are a HERETIC – you will burn in the sauce forever!
Sorry to inform you, Teleprompter, and believe me when I say it breaks my heart, but YOU ARE THE HERETIC.
Obviously, the FSM has not chosen you to be a TrueFollower™. Perhaps you think you are a follower, but let me be clear — you are NOT a follower, and HAVE NEVER been a follower. This is obvious from your unnoodly assertions.
You have been deceived by pirates. Unless you repent, then it is YOU who will burn in sauce forever! Ramen!
PS: If you feel heartburn, this is the FSM’s way of getting your attention. If you want eternal bliss, just pray this prayer: “Dear FSM, I am a heretic. I love you and want to marry you forever. Please enter my heart and take the burning away. Sincerely yours &etc, Teleprompter.” That’s all it takes! Then you’ll be a TrueFollower™, unless you start saying bad things again, which will prove you were never really one of us!
“you will burn in the sauce forever”
No, no. The sauce never burns. You are a heretic, and will boil in the sauce forever.
Every blog doesn’t update each day, and I don’t read every post on every blog. :)
Christians should read C.S. Lewis’ adult fiction too. (“The Great Divorce” and “The Screwtape Letters”)
I mean, he is a Christian writer. I’m not Christian, and disagree completely with his Christian premises, and I read them and recommend them as worthwhile.
IF Christians read him , the ones that are capable of any self-examination and self-honesty at all (in my impression, almost none, but a few), they will see their own rationalizations, manipulations, and dishonesty there in print.
Therefore, I think few read him! He has a Twain-like incisive, scathing insight right to the core of people’s dishonesty, and especially how Christians – his subject – rationalize, explain away, and turn blind eyes and deaf ears to their own behavior.
“I exploded a blue whale in sacrifice, because I had to cover my ass with 10,434 known gods and godlings. This way everyone gets a chunk.”
This cracked me up.
Surely the FSM shall bless you for just mentioning his name?
What does everyone get a chunk of – gods, the whale, or his ass?
–Thanks Bill. King of Jungle only here to help.
@claidhemh mor
The whale–My ass has a certain majestic grandeur, but it’s not up to the task of supplying all 10,435 known gods, godlings, and godlets.
Yes, 10,435–I found another one under the sofa this morning.
Oh, no problem. I was just curious.
Easiest way I know of is to total up the number of responses, then have a random number generator pick 5 random numbers.