I, Bababooey, do slolomly sweah...
Posted on 01/09/2014 12:32:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
It wasn’t his flashy suit or fresh haircut that people noticed when new Pomfret, N.Y. Town Council member Christopher Schaeffer was sworn in last week -- it was the colander he wore on his head.
Schaeffer was wearing the spaghetti strainer atop his dome because he is a minister with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
"It's just a statement about religious freedom," he said. "It's a religion without any dogma."
According to its website, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster really started to take off in 2005.
"Our ideal is to scrutinize ideas and actions, but ignore general labels," the website says.
"Some claim that the church is purely a thought experiment, satire, illustrating that Intelligent Design is not science, but rather a pseudoscience manufactured by Christians to push Creationism (the doctrine that God created the universe) into public schools. These people are mistaken. The Church of FSM is real, totally legit, and backed by hard science. Anything that comes across as humor or satire is purely coincidental."
Members of the church are called Pastafarians.
"Most of us do not believe a religion -- Christianity, Islam, Pastafarianism -- requires literal belief in order to provide spiritual enlightenment," the website reads. "That is, we can be part of a community without becoming indoctrinated. There are many levels of belief."
Pastafarian or not, Schaeffer plans on making the citizens of Pomfret proud.
"Mostly, I'm just looking forward to making sure that the town is run smoothly and we meet the needs of all of our citizens," he said. "If anybody ever has any concerns or questions, I hope they contact me, because I want to make sure that everyone is represented."
The church called Schaeffer’s choice of headwear “encouraging news.”
I agree ,..whole heartedly !!
yes , that is exactly the term -" sanctimonious a-holes"
One of my computer servers is named Bob Dobbs. The Church of the Subgenious is much older than Pastafarians.
/johnny
“It’s such a fine line between stupid and, uh .......... clever.”
It depends. Probably not... but all bets are off if they spread their sauce... er, word by the sword
“It’s not a religion - it’s a way to ridicule Christians. Kind of like blackface directed towards Christians.”
On the day that the Flying Spaghetti Monster returns, and touches you with his noodly appendage, you will rue the day you made fun of us Pastafarians!
On the seventh day of floating around infinite nothingness, after six days of rest, the FSM said, ‘Let there be a Universe, or something!’ And there was a Universe, or something not terribly far off. And the FSM saw that it was pretty damn good, especially the bits with a light sauce.
—the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
I, Bababooey, do slolomly sweah...
New Yorkers. Now they have a Communist for a Governor, and a Nincompoop for City Council. He’ll fit right in.
If you ask me the guy is just an asshat.
He, like Marion Barry, is a fine example of democracy in action. He’s a perfect representative of his constituency.
LOL, I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who remembers! It is a good name for a server.
Ace of Spades has a post up about this (includes a pic of the swearing in, btw) and after reading it I’m somewhat rethinking this. However, the guy was elected and now he will serve; I hope for his sake and the sake of his town that he’ll take his office more seriously than he takes religion.
Here is the link:
The Clampers have been at the fine art of absurdity and have taken quaffing nature’s finest adult beverages to new, and legendary heights since the 1,800’s. They do quite a bit of charity work, and place plaques in exceptional locations noting the historical facts of the region where they are placed. I was invited to join... but didn’t know for sure who or what they were (about,) without doing some research, during the spontaneous invitation. I think they would give the spaghetti eaters a run for their money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Clampus_Vitus
The fellas hanging on the wall are amused.
SubG is still going somewhat strong:
http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm
The colander is a gigantic technological leap forward and rendered the basic tinfoil hat obsolete. You see, with the colander, your thoughts can still be projected through the little holes while at the same time the colander provides protection against other thoughts getting in. Particularly the bad thoughts that come from the street lights and electrical outlets (of course, you need the row of paperclips in the cuff of your pants for complete protection against the electrical outlets).
Better schizophrenia through technology.
From his belt-line, it looks like he may be an adherent of the lasagna heresy...
SpaceBoy wears a Tin Foil Hat every day. H e never leaves home without it.
“God will not be mocked...
we’ll just let Him take care of stuff like this,
He’ll do a better job of it than we could ever do.”
Its ironic that a colander is used to sift.
I hope for his sake and the sake of his town that he’ll take his office more seriously than he takes religion.
Indeed. One would expect a serious Pastafarian to have a nice ceremonial steel colander.
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