[Pastafarians stage a counter-protest. Photo cred - Brian Chilson]
It was a victory for Pastafarians everywhere.
Last Friday – Talk Like a Pirate Day – the Central Arkansas Pastafarians interrupted and caused the discontinuation of a Westboro Baptist Church hate-demonstration.
Westboro Baptist Church is best known for picketing funeral processions of soldiers killed in the Iraq War, but they hate everyone who doesn’t share their literal interpretation of the Bible.
From Wikipedia:
The church runs numerous websites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of homosexuality, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews, as well as populations it believes are supporting the aforementioned groups, including Chinese, Swedes, Canadians, Irish, British, Mexicans and Americans.
These guys are intolerant assholes; I am so happy to see our fellow Pastafarians ruin their day.
The Arkansas Times had this to say about the Pastafarian counter-protest:
What do you do to make a bunch of soulless nutcases abandon their post at the Convention Center? Send in the pirates!
Yep, the cuckoo Phelps hate group walked the plank this morning after a happy bunch dressed like pirates and holding signs saying “God hates shrimp — Leviticus” and “God hates cotton-polyester blends” stood opposite them at the corner of Markham and Scott streets. The group, made up of Central Arkansas Pastafarians, waved swords and growled “Arrghh!” in a manner that would have made Abbie Hoffman proud.
With cars honking and waving at the pirates and a TV crew giving them all the attention, the Phelps group — with a child in tow, sadly — picked up their “fag” epithets and went away. Pitiful.
A sincere thank you to the Central Arkansas Pastafarians. You made us all proud.
You can read more at the Arkansas Times website.
Even better news — piratical activity is on the rise. I cite the ongoing crisis regarding the Ukrainian vessel.
And we all know what this means. HE is truly with us. Now more than ever he asserts both his power and noodly benevolence.
All believers should say 20 Lo Meins.
RAmen.
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These guys will not only get their own tap at the beer volcano, they won’t have to tip the strippers. RAmen!
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So… Proud… Tears… Welling… ARRRRR!!!
Brilliant work, I’m also impressed by the timing and organisation, and the signs. Absolutely wonderful.
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I’m so proud of you guys!
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You guys rock so many socks.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in a good long while. I tip my pirate hat to you awesome pirates and pirate wenches.
May his noodley appendages guide good luck and fortune in your direction for many moons to come.
RAmen.
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Yarrrrrr, it be a good day for common sense, aye.
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Ye be makin us all proud mateys, a big RAmen to the lot of ye!
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I’m an italian guy…and studing an exam of history of religion I knew your religion…you’re genious!!you’re just genious!
respect!!!
Damiano from Rome.
Ramaen!!
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ramen!!
I’m sorry…I’m drunk…
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Very nice :P Great job, I love it when the crazies get pissed because someone else gets more attention than them :P
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Here in NYC we don’t have many such groups that anyone would notice. We had some black Isrealites for a while and they were pretty obnoxious, but NYers don’t put up for that too much.
I’ve seen crowds start yelling at preachers like that. (lots of violent homosexuals here) and I often have to yell at the preacher who makes my ferry ride less happy.
that all said, I weep with joy that you’all are so blessed and carressed by his noodliness that you would take the effort. And of course you were so successful because you had his sauce in your blood.
congrats.
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Good work! I shall drink to you all week! (Fortunately these nutjobs have been banned from Canada)
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I am so proud of you all, wonderful job!!!!!
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Brilliant!!
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Great job, everyone!
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“God Hates Shrimp – Leviticus.” What a perfect way to respond! Whoever thought of it should consider running for office. Isn’t the Phelps crew and their ilk one of the reasons many of us have turned to His Noodliness? Viva Pastafarianism. Shrimp fettuccine to celebrate!
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Truley worthy of a full throttle YARRRR! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Central Arkansas Pastafarians rock! Fight hate with satire; let the world cleansing begin!
RAmen
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So we beat a hate group, therefore, we are the opposite of a hate group, a “love group”……*looks at beautiful wenches* i like where this is going…..
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Does the presence of pirates in Somalia mean that Global Warming is on a downturn?
Notice that the pirates are demanding Spaghetti, as well as being environmentalists.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/30/africa/pirates.php?pass=true
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In a 45-minute interview, Sugule expounded on everything from what the pirates wanted – “just money” – to why they were doing this – “to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters” – to what they ate – rice, meat, bread, *spaghetti*, “you know, normal human-being food.”
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Fine job. WBC -vs- FSM and FSM won.
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Ramen 2 u, guys!!!!
A proud day to be a pastafarian!
BTW. Remember FSM does not hate anyone.
Sometimes he just interferes. Just for fun. =)
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I don’t think God hates cotton-polyester blends. It’s only cotton-linen blends He has a problem with if I read Leviticus 19:19 correctly. Got that?!
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I too shall drink to you. More and more action like this will make the world a saner place. Ironically.
Also it confirms that not all Americans are fundamentalist morons, which is a stereotype we seem to get here in Blighty!
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Geez, now why can’t I hear about these things BEFORE they happen?? I wanted to be there. :(
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Fianlly, a disorganized religion I can believe in. And I live in a town already densely populated by Pirates, Greenville NC is the home to the Eact Carolina University Pirates, there are pirares on almost every corner, no one looks askance if you go into a store on Saturday wearing an eye patch, who knew they were Pastafarians!
Aargh, now when we say the Pastafarian blessing (you all know it, Good food, good eats, good grief, let’s eat) I can now end it with….(wait for it) Ramen!
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*Clenched fist salute*
Right on, brothers!
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That’s bloody hilarious. I’m glad you messed up those Westboro motherlickers.
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Thank you very much! I hope that more of the Westboro protests can be broken up!
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Awesome. No other word describes it. Well done.
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Oddly, I had just nuked a Boston Market Chicken Parmesan w/ Sketti dinner for my eats, right before I discovered this site via a linky from NoScript: http://noscript.net/faq#qa1_1 .
Having been an ECU Marching Pirate way back in the day, I can only rue the fact that we weren’t outfitted with groovy pirate togs and eye patches, brandishing our instruments and shouting en masse “Ar-r-gh!” as our team cheer!
Have you seen this: http://arrgh.com/ ? XD Go Central Ar-r-gh-ensas Pastafarians!
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Wonderful to see fellow pastafarians standing up against that bigoted, funeral-desecrating church of nutcases.
I celebrated by eating noodles as breakfast.
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@Flemish Girl,
His Noodlyness has touched people all over the world as I’m sure you know. Interested in meeting with some Dutch pirates? PastaPiraten@hotmail.com
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Can someone let me know if there’s some on-call Pastafarian group that I could join to counter-protest groups like WBC. It could be like the minute-men. Whenever these lunatics pop up, we grab our swords and parrots, and head over to enlighten them.
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:D
Good to see these ass hats put in their place. I hope the whole WBC like get on a bus together, then the, almighty, *angelic choir* Flying Spaghetti Monster, picks it up with his noodly appendage and throws them into the middle of the Grand Cannon, then they die and explode.
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WOW! I was definitely there leading a counter-protest as well! The protest was the center spread in my school’s newspaper and everything. The WBC actually didn’t come back the next day.
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I propose these wonderful Pastafarians be Sainted by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
They are truly carrying out His good work.
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up here in Canada we all really enjoyed pirate day.. sorry it has been so long to place in my 2 cents.. but it was fun.. i personally don’t need a special day to be a pirate.. but look on the upper hand..
at least the only call you crazy or assholes.. i am not a believer but a lot of my friends are .. Im a devout satanist think on how the hicks and close minded treat me here.. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
AND HAVE A GREAT HALLOWEEN
CPTN. SCALLYWAG
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If you guys want to see something funny check out what Charles Firth from The Chaser’s War on Everything did to these WBC nutters at a picket of a Marine’s funeral in 2006
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/
Anyone know of any other fellow Pastafarians in Australia? I’ve been trying to get a following started to protest our Federal Governments plan to censor the Internet but Aussies already have beer volcanos and strippers all over the place.
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Makes me proud. I vow to do this should those WBC assholes show up here in the Tampa Area.
Arrrrr!
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AWESOME!
I am so, so proud of my fellow Pastafarians.
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Arrrr! I wish there were some groups like this in Calgary, but alas, I have only ever met one other Pastafarian in the whole city! I don’t suppose there are already groups in Calgary I am unaware of? If so, stop hiding from me!
Jolly well done to you Arkansas Pirates, you’re an inspiration to all! RAmen to you all!
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Hooray for pastafarians finally someone’s doing something about the WBC i live in britain and dont know any other pastafarians im so alone
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holy crap they are getting federal and local police to help “stop” any interruptions…….. dammit
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HOORRAAAAAYY!
And, I might add, YAArrr…
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I know this might seem kinda pointless with all the other comments saying the same thing. But i feel i need to say it.
Im very proud of you guys.
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Hola pastafarianos!
I’m so proud of my fellow pastafarians, I hope they follow the FSM advice: eat to go after those hateful bitches!
Saludos desde Ecuador!
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This was awful! You guys went and protested the Westboro Baptist Church!?
Without ME!?!?!?
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I want an eyepatch, too. . . and a big bowl of linguini. . .
You guys pwn. Down with all haters!
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Brilliant! I love the cotton/poly blends line. It has always been one of my favorites. Whenever someone says something stupid like, “It’s in the bible…,” I always point out that mixed thread clothing is also an abomination in the bible.
“I hope you aren’t wearing poly/cotton. It is a sin, you know.”
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