An Austrian has won the right to be photographed wearing a pasta strainer for his driving licence on the grounds of religious freedom.
Niko Alm announced the decision on his blog, saying that, after three years of struggle, a psychologist had passed him fit to drive and so he could wear the kitchen implement for the picture ID.
Mr Alm, who calls himself a "pastafarian", said he belonged to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which lampooned religion.
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"Today I was able to get my new driving licence, and in it you can clearly see that I'm wearing a colander on my head to demonstrate my allegiance to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," Mr Alm wrote in his blog.
"My headwear has now been recognised by the Republic of Austria."
The spaghetti church was founded in 2005 in opposition to pressure on the Kansas school board in the United States to teach the theory of intelligent design in biology classes as an alternative to evolution.
It has engaged in a light-hearted campaign against religion ever since.
Pastafarians claim the world was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but, because the monster was inebriated at the time, it was a flawed design.
The Telegraph, London
(Badger has been a long time devotee of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)
9 comments:
That's hilarious! Thanks for showing.
I cannot believe I am seeing it here after seeing it on the Drudge Report. And you said you had nothing to talk about. Eat your peas.
show us your spaghetti hat then! hehe
and is it plastic or metal?!
I absolutely love this.
My son has a tee-shirt proclaiming himself a pastafarian. There's a picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and it reads "be touched by his noodly appendage".
:-)
Pearl
And you said you had no spark, I disgree, ha ha he he.
that was a short break! it must have been your flying spaghetti Monster church that encouraged you back!
See you in August!
Hooray! All it took was a silly Austrian collander to get your spark back.
PS: It's a Scabetti Monster in our house.
See today's blog. I have lost my creative spark but I still have my eyes and fingers and am capable of seeing things that will amuse people - and am such a fan of the FSM that I could not let it go by without comment.
May the Pastafarians make an ever bigger splash.
1) After denying so vehemently that atheism is not a religion the Pastafarian sect of atheism fights for equal rights to freely express their religious beliefs. As Niko Alm states it, his goal is for “Pastafarianism to become an officially recognised faith in Austria.”
2) The Flying Spaghetti Monster actually proved was that some people are utterly ignorant of natural theology / general revelation. These propose the best that science and philosophy have offer as to the universe’s coming into being. They propose that the universe had a creator and even identify some of the creator’s characteristics.
See http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/flying-spaghetti-monster-invisible-pink-unicorns-et-al-part-1-4
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