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Seattle Times
January 13, 2018
HOMER, Alaska (AP) — Ever since the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly's controversial policy regarding invocations before meetings was updated and finalized in 2016, people across the peninsula have been voicing their support or frustration, some more vigorously than others. One man, McNeilÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
January 8, 2018
On Solstice, Homer Resident Barrett Fletcher prepared to host the first meeting of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster at his home. He needs the religion to have regular meetings in the area so he can fill the borough's requirement to give an invocation. For Pastafarians, this meeting will be like goingÃÂ ...
Homer News
January 3, 2018
One man, McNeil Canyon area resident Barrett Fletcher, is going so far as to start up a local congregation of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the lower peninsula. The church, called FSM for short, was formed in 2005 as a response to the Kansas State Board of Education's hearings onÃÂ ...
KBBI
January 2, 2018
On Solstice, Homer Resident Barrett Fletcher prepared to host the first meeting of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster at his home. He needs the religion to have regular meetings in the area so he can fill the borough's requirement to give an invocation. For Pastafarians, this meeting will be like goingÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
December 14, 2017
Adherents worship a pasta god called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, wear colanders or pirate garb, and reject "crazy nonsense" while enjoying life, being nice to all sentient beings and feasting on pasta. While the intention was at first to ridicule fundamentalists of any stripe, any good joke has a seriousÃÂ ...
CNET
November 11, 2017
Pasta is so much more fun to eat when the Flying Spaghetti Monster helps out in the kitchen. The fictional deity is the subject of an appropriately themed colander, letting you recreate the internet icon in real life as part of your dinner. Not familiar with this spaghetti creature? It and the Church of the FlyingÃÂ ...
Saveur
September 19, 2017
And so, according to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, our world was formed. This is the creation myth first expounded in 2005 by physics student Bobby Henderson, who argued in an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education that his religion based on pasta was every bit as scientifically validÃÂ ...
JSTOR Daily
September 5, 2017
If you were planning on attending noodle mass (nuddelmasse) in Templin, Germany this year, you might have to ask a local for directions. A Brandenburg court has ruled that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is no longer permitted to display placards advertising its nuddelmasse services atÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
August 2, 2017
A German court has ruled that local authorities are entitled to prevent a group calling itself the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster from advertising its "noodle Masses" at the entrance to an eastern town. It's standard practice in Germany for small signs at the entrance to towns to announce there's aÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
August 2, 2017
Yes, there is actually a religious organization called the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, named after - naturally - a flying mass of noodles and meatballs. Its origin dates back to 2005, when US physicist Bobby Henderson published a letter in protest of a decision by the Kansas state school board toÃÂ ...
The Times
December 31, 1999
The census also collected data on those who put their religion down as Heavy Metal, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Arsenal. While 11,766 respondents identified as Wiccans, 176,632 affiliated themselves as Jedi knights — a fall from the 2001 census when the knights beat Sikhism, Judaism andÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
December 6, 2017
One of my favorite spurious correlations comes from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (the Pastafarians). Pirates (not the modern version) are revered as the first Pastafarians, and the "religion" holds that the decline of swashbuckling brigands caused global warming. Sure enough, graphs show ...
Colombia Reports
December 5, 2017
Prominent scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins is facing an uphill battle during a visit to Colombia where he will stay until Wednesday. According to a recent poll, 97% in the South American country believes in God. The poll was held by pollster Cifras y Conceptos in anticipation of arguably the world's ...
HuffPost
November 26, 2017
Go believe in the flying spaghetti monster for all I care. This is about civil rights. This is about calling out extremism, bigotry and discrimination.
First Things
November 24, 2017
The less polite even mock traditional religious believers by pretending to worship a faux-god, the great flying spaghetti monster. Scorn faith as ...
Patheos (blog)
November 24, 2017
You know you need a Flying Spaghetti Monster ornament to put on top of your Christmas tree, and this one by Etsy user Jordana was a big hit ...
Forward
November 22, 2017
Afanasyev requested permission for wearing the unusual clothing citing his belonging to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
November 22, 2017
Afanasyev requested permission for wearing the unusual clothing citing his belonging to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, ...
Haaretz
November 21, 2017
Pastafarianism, also known as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is a movement that challenges some mainstream religious beliefs, ...
Study International News
November 20, 2017
In possibly the strangest news you will hear this week: Delft University of Technology has refused to allow a student to defend his PhD thesis in pirate attire. The student in question is 38-year-old geohydrologist Michael Afanasyev who claims to be a Priest of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
NL Times
November 17, 2017
Depiction of the Flying Spaghetti Monster giving the "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts" tablets to Captain Mosey. Photo: Osado / Wikimedia ...
DutchNews.nl
November 16, 2017
Michael Afanasyev, a 38-year-old geohydrologist, claims he is a priest of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which, according to its ...
DutchNews.nl
November 16, 2017
Michael Afanasyev, a 38-year-old geohydrologist, claims he is a priest of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which, according to its ...
eTeknix
November 12, 2017
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has a very strange history. In more recent times, the phrase is most largely associated with Athiest's ...
CNET
November 12, 2017
It and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were created to mock those who oppose teaching evolution in schools. The Flying Spaghetti ...
Patheos (blog)
November 9, 2017
When Christopher Schaeffer was elected to the Pomfret Town Board in New York four years ago, he was sworn into office with a colander on ...
UPROXX
November 8, 2017
(Please, flying spaghetti monster, let it be AJ.) 3. Speaking of that mini-invasion by the New Day last night, and the announcement that Roman ...
Macleans.ca
November 3, 2017
There are commentators, politicians, “scholars,” and day-to-day citizens who will swear up and down to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that ...
Chippewa Herald
October 28, 2017
When President Trump talks about the silencing of people of faith, I wonder if he means those who believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Omaha World-Herald
October 28, 2017
The World War I memorial cross is pictured in Bladensburg, Md. A week after a three-judge panel declared the 40-foot (12-meter) cross ...
LGBTQ Nation
October 27, 2017
You pray to God for me to become a Christian in the next ten seconds, and I'll pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster (peas be upon him) to keep ...
Press Herald
October 27, 2017
Thank God, Allah, Buddha or the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity of “Pastafarians” who poke fun at religion. Just give thanks for the First ...
Colorado Springs Gazette
October 25, 2017
Thank God. Thank Allah, Buddha or the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity of "Pastafarians" who poke fun at religion. Just give thanks for the First ...
Colorado Springs Gazette
October 25, 2017
Thank God. Thank Allah, Buddha or the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity of "Pastafarians" who poke fun at religion. Just give thanks for the First ...
Freeport Journal-Standard
October 16, 2017
When the Flying Spaghetti Monster (look it up) descends upon us and establishes what meat we can eat, who I'm allowed to be attracted to, ...
Religion News Service
October 13, 2017
A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on Dec. 5, 2004. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/Duncan Lock.
Inside Higher Ed
October 5, 2017
Your post implies it is okay if somebody isn't well liked by those who are like minded, but flying spaghetti monster forbid somebody you like gets ...
Patheos (blog)
September 26, 2017
They should have picked something to defeat such as a flying spaghetti monster or “a state that is officially atheistic that has not killed millions ...
Saveur
September 19, 2017
And so, according to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, our world was formed. This is the creation myth first expounded in 2005 by ...
Standard-Examiner
September 17, 2017
(Adherents to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster believe you show your Pastafarian devotion by wearing a colander in your driver's ...
JSTOR Daily
September 5, 2017
A Brandenburg court has ruled that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is no longer permitted to display placards advertising its ...
Deutsche Welle
September 4, 2017
The followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the globally popular satirical deity, are now seeking their rights before Germany's Constitutional ...
Deutsche Welle
August 2, 2017
At each of the four main entrances to the town, a sign erected by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster informs locals of the date and time ...
Chicago Tribune
August 2, 2017
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster adherents call themselves pastafarians, wear colanders on their heads, revere pirates and believe ...
Food & Wine
June 2, 2017
Last year another woman who originally got permission to announce her love for the Flying Spaghetti Monster on her driver's license was also ...
The Atlantic
October 11, 2016
But then the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) sought a road sign of the sort that local Catholic and Protestant churches receive from the German ...
Design World Network
December 31, 1999
Afanasyev says he is a priest of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a satirical religion that promotes buffoonery of special exemptions for religious beliefs. Pirates are a key part of the Spaghetti Monster religion. Among other things, its adherents have pointed out there is a direct inverse correlation ...
Saveur
September 19, 2017
And so, according to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, our world was formed. This is the creation myth first expounded in 2005 byÃÂ ...
Standard-Examiner
September 17, 2017
(Adherents to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster believe you show your Pastafarian devotion by wearing a colander in your driver'sÃÂ ...
COGconnected
September 6, 2017
The Early Access Steam fighting game, Fight of Gods, looks tailor-made for meme chuckles as you'll see Buddha forgo pacifism to kick Odin inÃÂ ...
