Bobby Henderson was wrong about pirates

Bobby Henderson was wrong about pirates. But his mistake was sort of understandable:

Bobby discovered that global warming is caused by a decrease in the number of pirates, and (sort of understandably) assumed that if a decrease in their number caused something bad, then they must be good, and taking that to an extreme, he pronounced them the Chosen People of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Seehttp://www.amazon.com/dp/product/0812976568?tag=priuschatcom-20 mistake was in assuming that what is bad for humankind is necessarily viewed as bad by the FSM. The FSM doesn't much care what the temperature or climate of the Earth is, because it lives in heaven, with its beer volcano, not on Earth. Another mistake Bobby made was confusing beer (the sacramental drink) with grog, which is the drink of pirates, and which is watered-down rum. Beer is as old as civilization, while rum is a vile-tasting concoction.

Pirates are not fun-loving sea-going party animals, as Bobby wrongly concluded. They are murdering thieves. Thievery is not always bad. But murder is.

In all probability, the Chosen People are meatballs. The FSM, though it has meatballs, has no gender, but the meatballs suggest that these are the chosen people, which, of course, suggests that while spaghetti is the sacrament and may be eaten in copious quantities, with beer, of course, eating meatballs may risk lowering your category (and your place in line at the beer volcano) in heaven.