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An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523

Hmm I wonder if I could do that here

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Surely a religious atheist is an oxymoron? Also is "pastafarianism" an accepted "religion"?
If not, then it's a moot point and should not be allowed IMO.

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Surely a religious atheist is an oxymoron? .

True

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Also is "pastafarianism" an accepted "religion"?
If not, then it's a moot point and should not be allowed IMO.

Who is to say what is an isn't a religion - surely if you accomadate 1 "belief system" then you must accomadate all provided that they stay within the law

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Surely a religious atheist is an oxymoron? Also is "pastafarianism" an accepted "religion"?
If not, then it's a moot point and should not be allowed IMO.

If your belief set is constructed in a way that you believe it is a religion (or not in the case of atheism) then it shouldn't matter whether someone else considers it a religion or not. Its a religion. No one has the right IMHO to say whether a religion is accepted or not.

Me, well I'm a fully paid up member of the church of subgenius. :D

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My dad always said, "the more extreme the religious belief, the more extreme the headwear". :lol:

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Surely a religious atheist is an oxymoron?


Indeed. If you are an atheist, then really you have no invisible means of support whatsoever, and certainly don’t need the backup of a quasi-religious group be it Flying Spaghetti Monsters, SciFi films, the Humanist Association, or anything else.

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The group's website states that "the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma".

Another oxymoron.

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I prefer this bit:
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In response to pressure for American schools to teach the Christian theory known as intelligent design, as an alternative to natural selection, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wrote to the Kansas School Board asking for the pastafarian version of intelligent design to be taught to schoolchildren, as an alternative to the Christian theory.

I can't stand that some Americans are trying to teach intelligent design as science. It belongs in the RE class and nowhere else!!!

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The group's website states that "the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma".

Another oxymoron.

Not really - As the "Rejection of Dogma" is the Dogma I can reject the rejection of the "rejection of Dogma" and so have a Dogma .... if you follow me

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I can't stand that some Americans are trying to teach intelligent design as science. It belongs in the RE class and nowhere else!!!

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