Pastafarian gets to wear strainer on head in license photo

[Shawnster]

http://www.wkyc.com/story/life/2015/11/16/pastafarian-gets-to-wear-strainer-on-head-in-license-photo/75859900/

 

(AP) - A Massachusetts agency is letting a woman who belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wear a colander on her head in her driver's license photo after she cited her religious beliefs

[trottigy]

I almost "fixed" the spelling    

[Old]

What does she wear when making pasta?

The religious significance of this is definitely underwhelming! 

[Friends just call me Ross]

Erm...Quite the fashion statement. 

 

 

 

Lawyer Patty DeJuneas calls Pastafarianism a "secular religion that uses parody to make its point."

 

Which point must then be that religion, as a whole, is ludicrous?

Instead of going door-to-door, they go kitchen-to-kitchen. 

 Wonder if the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has a pope?  ...or a pope-ess?  

 

I think Church of the Holy Colander sounds better. 

[Tortuga]

She looks like a walking lightening rod. How illuminating...

[Old]

She looks like a walking lightening rod. How illuminating...

I agree with you but you have to consider she might be well grounded. 

[Tortuga]

That would be a shock...

[timpin]

What does she wear when making pasta?

The religious significance of this is definitely underwhelming! 

 

She lost her noodles!

[carlos]

Which point must then be that religion, as a whole, is ludicrous?

 

That "religion" is intentionally ludicrous.

 

In Europe this colander thing began as a protest. Some Muslim women refused to take off their veil for their passport pictures and insisted to use pictures where their face appeared completely covered. In a few cases governmental officers accepted this not to hurt religious feelings. So these spaghetti people created their own mock religion and insisted that they had the same right to wear a colander on their head based on the same religious grounds.

[BibleSteve]

http://bokeh.digitalrev.com/article/woman-wins-case-allowing-pastafarians-to-wear-colanders-in-their-driver-s-license-photos

 

Gotta laugh haven't you      

[Shawnster]

I think this is another symptom of the attack on religion.  People are getting tired of religion, period.  In this case, they are satirizing the idea of religion by forming a "church."  This particular case is an attempt to mock religion and pointing out a perceived absurdity of allowing exceptions based on religion.

 

Further, it shows a lack of concrete thought and understanding on the part of the judges involved in allowing this person to wear a spaghetti strainer in her DMV photo.  Let's stop and think about this for a moment.  Some religions call for the wearing of a particular piece of clothing such as a headscarf.  It is their religious practice.  Individuals that follow such a practice wear a headscarf regularly.  That is the salient difference here.  Regularity in the wearing of the headscarf.  The Pastafarians are mocking religion.  They do not regularly wear a spaghetti strainer.  I would bet this individual only wore the strainer in her DMV photo and nowhere else.  

 

Let's assume this is a legitimate religion that deserves the same treatment as Islam or anything else.  What is the religious teaching of the Pastafarians that requires the wearing of a spaghetti strainer?  What is the doctrine, tenant or teaching?

 

No.  This is satire and mockery being allowed by the government.

[alba aurora]

She looks like a viking.