Posted on 07/13/2011 12:09:03 PM PDT by MNDude
An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".
Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons.
Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism.
The Austrian authorities required him to obtain a doctor's certificate that he was "psychologically fit" to drive.
The idea came into Mr Alm's noodle three years ago as a way of making a serious, if ironic, point.
A self-confessed atheist, Mr Alm says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light-hearted faith whose members call themselves pastafarians.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
spaghetti monster?
now we know who’s behind all the religiously motivated terrorist attacks.
now all of you freepers apologize to those amishes’
Good for him. Sauce, goose gander etc.
When you take fools seriously, this (and much more) becomes inevitable...
“...strains credulity”
Wearing that on his noodle, he no doubt thinks he looks saucy.
Good for him.
My wife and I joined a distant related sect, the disciples of the spaghetti western. We should probably be allowed to wear our cowboy hats and spurs.
Sorry BBC, but you evidently condone muzzie apparel.
And I’m afraid that this fellow’s pastafarianism is a lot more sacred, believable, and peaceful than is Islam.
lol
Credulity is actually considered to be a virtue these days...
;^)
Some people have more time than sense.
Lemme guess: He stuffs rigatoni with ganja and calls it reeferoni.
I believe the standard “May his noodly appendage be upon you” is the required ending...
www.venganza.org/
They now have a theme park, so must be legit, eh?
“Can I get a Ramen!!”
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