Hot Cup of Joe has a good article about the recent Pastafarian Suspended From School story and Pastafarianism in general.
The obvious criticism by the religious is that the FSM is concocted and not meant to be serious, but there’s absolutely no more way to demonstrate this than there is the same criticism of Yahweh, Allah, Brahma, Elohim, Jesus, etc.
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The North Buncombe school that suspended Killian maintains that it was his pirate outfit which was the reason for the suspension, since it was disruptive. The very outfit that Killian stated was important for his religion and in appropriately representing his religion. I wonder if the school would be willing to extend its disruption policy to yarmulkes and kippas?
Read it all here.
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“each of the religions of humanity may very well be nothing more than “golden spray.” And their followers are only willing to scrape away the sprays of cults other than their own, whilst believing that their own cult is gold all the way through. To the believer, there is no reason to scrap at the surface to see if its just spray, since their doctrine tells them it isn’t.”
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Indeed!!
RAmen
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“What if a student wore a t-shirt with a graphic scene from the Passion of the Christ plastered on the front? Would school officials have the courage to be seen as insensitive to other cultures………. An Errol Flynn shirt and a tri-cornered hat are one thing, a sword and live parrot are another. But whether or not the FSM and Pastafarianism are both purely invented or not, Killians school may have opened a can of worms it might wish it hadn’t. ?”
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Good article Bobby
RAmen
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@ Wench Nikkiee – Hiya! How went the shopping? I obviously need to read this article. It looks great! Back in a bit…reading to do! :)
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Yep – good article! Hope everyone reads it! :)
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Good article, believers will of course never believe it applies to them. Theirs is indeed “gold all the way through” in their eyes anyway.
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Ours of course IS ;)
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Arrr. Where be the gold? I be scratchin an scratchin
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Sirius, the gold is metaphorical, not real alas.
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Ah, why won’t people ever learn… the one true god is the Flying Spaghetti Monster and His Noodliness is obviously not touching North Carolina. Not from His lack of trying… I think those people run away from noodles since their religion tells them to. And about the gold, I heard a rumor that the Beer Volcano is made out of gold and the strippers wear those gold sequin bikinis (to start out, anyway).
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Aarrr! The Gold was real enough when I buried it and drew the map. And don’t you be scratchin’ at it.
Religions that are nothing but a golden spray veneer.
An exellent way to conceptualize the state of affairs.
Of course one would never gold plate pasta although one may eat pasta from a gold plate.
Why spray gold when you can sprinkle cheese?
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Beth, were I work we just had a bit of a row. An underwear company advertised a gold bikini by having it worn by a woman (of course). Some of the christian union party took exception to that and demanded the billboard to be removed. This backfired of course and the buyer for that campany, with amazing forsight, immediatly ordered thousands extra. Wich sell extremely well :)
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To RDPK… ah, how wonderful, the art of reverse psychology :) You gotta love it. By the way, do you know the address? I’d like to order one… JUST KIDDING!!!!
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Red DutchPasta Kidd Apr 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am
“gold all the way through†in their eyes anyway. Ours of course IS ;)”
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Yes….true.. true :)
RAmen
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Suspended? The BASTARDS!
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I do feel a little sad when serious religions like his noodlyness are confused with cults like the zombie raising one or the sandy i have sword , but no grog and havent got the guts to go to sea religions
Jon
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Bwahhahahahahahaa!
Nice one Jon!
Alas I am plagued with seasickness,but I am sure it is his noodliness telling me I am needed to run the harbour bar ;)
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We are a loose religion with loose morals, so sitting in the bath with a can of grog and a model boat is quite sufficient!
Sometimes I really jealous of Americans you actually have religious nuts to argue with do you know how hard it is in the UK so actually find someone who believes in all that Jesus stuff!
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Suspended WTF I would have expelled that fat fuck.
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Probably would. I know a girl that was expelled for wearing a Sari. I plan to return to school wearing FULL pirate regalia, even if I am expelled for expressing his noodly goodness. (Once I am over my current suspension that is)
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And you know, I wonder if an epidemic will occur. If Im suspended too, that will raise the bar to two (2?) NC students. Yay, lawsuit against NC state government!
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What’s your current suspension for? Welcome to the Church btw, haven’t seen you here before
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Ya – welcome MsKitty.
Got to apply the rules fairly. The Goddess of Justice is pictured with scales and sword but wearing a blindfold.
If Pirate gear is out then so are crosses, burqa’s etc. The French have got that right (you wont here me say that too often :))) )
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I’m surprised about a sari though – I don’t think they’re too bad (probably testosterone talking there).
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This is a very clean thread isn’t it – only 21 posts!
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