Posted on 01/02/2019 12:35:34 PM PST by Kaslin
An “interesting cast of characters” from “what some may consider fringe religions” – including the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Satanic Temple – are scheduled to speak before local government meetings in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula this year, an assemblyman says.
The diverse lineup is the latest twist in a long-running dispute in the area over whom is allowed to say invocations before its assembly meetings.
“It’s still somewhat a controversial issue and it’s going to be interesting to see how people react to what some may consider fringe religions — the Wiccan, atheist, Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Satanic Temple,” Willy Dunne, an assembly member, told the Anchorage Daily News. “They’re all lined up to give invocations. I don’t know if people will find that acceptable or not. We’ll have to find out and see.”
The invocations, in accordance with borough code, are “supposed to be some type of encouraging word” for the elected officials before they go about conducting their business, Assembly President Wayne Ogle added.
The process of determining who gets to speak to the assembly though has been mired in controversy in recent years.
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They don’t know how silly they sound.
And now a word from his noodly appendage...
The spaghetti monster group exists for the sole and express purpose of ridiculing and denigrating the very idea of faith in a purely spiritual supreme being. It’s not a religion, nor is it a faith, and the people who play around in it deserve only scorn and derision.
Hey, now ... yer supposed to keep it in yer pants!
There isn’t room.
Ahhh, so it's one of the Great Old Ones ...
So..democrats?
There are a fair amount of religion hating jack-wagons in Alaska.
A lot of “End of the road” types.
Is it really a prayer, or just a performance?
Thank you for your service, we all owe you for that. And you’re absolutely right, there are lots of fruitcakes in Alaska.
Appreciate it.
It’s very sad that they hate religion so much.....they have a lot to lose and don’t realize it.
At least they ain't Mormons!
This is the place.
Oh; I’d say they HAVE ‘religion’; they probably just ‘hate’ the Christianity type of it.
...this is my marinara sauce; which is given for you...
Here’s the premise : “We don’t believe in fake imaginary gods so we made up a fake imaginary god that we pretend to believe in”. It doesn’t make sense. They are trying to show Christians the absurdity of believing in God by pretending to believe in a flying spaghetti monster. But Christians aren’t pretending.
We have one of these at work. He tried to talk to me about it but he tied himself into knots until I said “You really haven’t thought very hard about this, have you?”
The whole Satan thing is actually good for Christianity because people should believe in Satan.
Sssst…
I don't exist...
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