In an interesting and amusing turn of events, Pastafarianism has been allowed to apply to be an official religion in Poland.
A church that worships an invisible flying spaghetti monster can now apply to be registered as an official religion in Poland, after a 2013 court ruling was overturned on Tuesday.
A Warsaw court rejected a ruling by the Regional Administrative Court because the it had not allowed the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) a two-month extension for submitting outstanding documents, Polskie Radio has reported.
A group of Pastafarians who gathered outside the court shouting “pasta” during the hearing on Tuesday welcomed the ruling.
The church’s religious symbols of headgear of a colander and the staff consisting of two meatballs surrounded by spaghetti can be seen in this photo.
Meanwhile, a minister of the church was sworn in as a member of the Pomfret New York Town Council, all the while wearing his religious headgear.
I love the pastafarians. They’ve got the faithful by the meatballs!
Heh. Scientologists in the US, Jedis in the UK, now Pastafarians in Poland.
I find this fascinating. If the law in all its majesty cannot tell the difference between a religion and a parody, gimmick, or scam, then what does that tell us about “legitimate” religions?
Being (almost) vegetarian, I would like to start a protestant branch of Pastafarianism without the meatballs.
Let the holy sacrilege begin!
Splitter!
@#4 -- AsqJames
Arrgh! You beat me to it by mere minutes!
Well done!
🙂
What I like about the FSM is that he doesn’t care if you believe in him or not. So even atheists can be members of the church.
I also especially like the 2nd and 5th of the 8 I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts, even though 5 includes a gendered slur.
2. I’d really rather you didn’t use my existence as a means to oppress, subjugate, punish, eviscerate, and/or, you know, be mean to others. I don’t require sacrifices, and purity is for drinking water, not people.
5. I’d really rather you didn’t challenge the bigoted, misogynistic, hateful ideas of others on an empty stomach. Eat, then go after the {replace with a non-gendered slur}.
@mastmaker #3: As a functional vegetarian myself, I’ve always interpreted the balls as TVP. 🙂
Well, you know:
I personally love that the law is now obliged to recognize obvious parody religions in order to avoid having to subject more traditional religions to scrutiny they’d rather not be subject to.
Does this mean I must install a T-junction in my pipe to the beer volcano so as to share the “lave” with others?
A group of Pastafarians who gathered outside the court shouting “pasta” …
Does poor deprived Poland not have ramen?
You lot won’t (wouldn’t!) be laughing in 2000 years when the adherents of the various schisms are slaughtering each other over the ingredients in the sauce.
THINK WHAT YOU’RE DOING! This is how Christianity got started!
#7 Heretic! The meatballs are clearly made of seitan!
Hail Seitan!