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Brandenburg faces wrath of Flying Spaghetti Monster
TheLocal.de ^
| 06 Apr 2016 11:01 GMT+02:00
Posted on 04/06/2016 11:27:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Brandenburg is suing the state over what they say is their right to post signs around town. […]
The FSM church explained in a statement that in December, it had discussed with local authorities its status and agreed it could qualify as an “ideological community”. They therefore had the right to post signs advertising their “noodle mass” — just as Protestant and Catholic churches advertise their own masses and gatherings with roadside signs.
Then, Brandenburg Culture Minister Sabine Kunst declared that because the spaghetti monster followers were not officially designated as a religious community, they would therefore have to remove the signs.
Worshipers saw no recourse but to bring the case to court. …
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TOPICS: Food; Local News; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: brandenburg; germany; noodlemass; pastafarians
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:27:49 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Being overrun by Muslims, but these dolts are busy pushing their own brand of hate.
2
posted on
04/06/2016 11:31:17 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Olog-hai
Carry packages of Ramen to protect you.
3
posted on
04/06/2016 11:32:15 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump/Nugent)
To: Olog-hai
In his noodly appendages we pray,
Ramen
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:33:22 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:33:34 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: Olog-hai
spaghetti, great! but with what kind of sauce?
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:33:42 AM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: BenLurkin
So asking for equal treatment is hate, now?
Change the national slogan from “In God We Trust,”
to “You Owe Me an Apology.”
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:34:53 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: BenLurkin
To: Olog-hai
The FSM church is a logical discontinuity ...
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:35:20 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Olog-hai
To: sparklite2
Those clowns do this nonsense because they hate God. Not because they have faith in anything (other than their own warped worldviews).
11
posted on
04/06/2016 11:36:45 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Olog-hai
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:37:01 AM PDT
by
Heartlander
(Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
To: BenLurkin
Yup. Everybody’s religion is false except for mine.
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:37:59 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: sparklite2
Seriously FRiend, this is not a religion. It is a hateful farce born of hostility for believers.
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:39:53 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
How old is the leader of this “church”? Twelve?
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:43:42 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: BenLurkin
Of course it’s not a religion. I have a FSM on my car as an antidote for stuff like “Jesus Possess Me” bumperstickers.
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:44:19 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: Olog-hai
It’s not a Church, it’s an anti Church.
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posted on
04/06/2016 11:46:18 AM PDT
by
Bellflower
(It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
To: headstamp 2
Intellectually, that would be an optimistic estimate.
To: sparklite2
“Of course it’s not a religion.”
Ah, so you admit they don’t deserve “equal treatment” with religions, because they are not one.
Nice of you to eviscerate the point you tried to make a few posts back for us, so we don’t have to bother.
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