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Creature's picture irks Board of Ed member (FSM alert)
The Wichita Eagle ^
| April 13, 2006
| retMD
Posted on 04/13/2006 1:06:53 PM PDT by retMD
State Board of Education member Connie Morris took exception Wednesday to a picture of a made-up creature that satirizes the state's new science standards hanging on a Stucky Middle School teacher's door.
Fellow board member Sue Gamble told The Eagle that Morris asked for the picture to be removed.
The creature, called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is the creation of Bobby Henderson of Corvallis, Ore. It looks like a clump of spaghetti with two eyes sticking out of the top and two meatballs flanking the eyes.
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I hate to post and run, but this was too good not to post. I'm not sure of the legalities here; can the teacher be required to remove it? Can someone claim it is a religious symbol (pastafarianism) and demand it be taken down?
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:06:55 PM PDT
by
retMD
To: retMD
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:08:25 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
To: retMD
Ramen to all the brothers and sisters, touched by his noodley appendage.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:09:04 PM PDT
by
newcats
(Natural Born Skeptic)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:09:23 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
To: retMD
"pastafarianism"
LOL! Ire, mon
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:10:07 PM PDT
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: retMD
It's sweet when teachers make fun of Christians. Do they make fun of other people too? Folks with big lips? People with big noses? People with funny eyes?
Or is it just OK to make fun of Christians?
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:14:15 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: retMD
Seperated at birth?
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:18:10 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: retMD
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:19:11 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
To: ClearCase_guy
The teacher is not making fun of Christians. A lot of Christians agree with the teacher's position
To: peyton randolph; Junior
Thanks for the ping. I suspect that this isn't a good time to deploy the evolution ping list. Maybe later.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:25:20 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
To: ClearCase_guy
LOL... It's making fun of ID. and we all know that has nothing to do with Christianity or religion... Isn't that what the IDers say? LOL
To: ClearCase_guy
It's sweet when teachers make fun of Christians.
FSM was created to make fun of ID proponents. Since ID advocates claim that ID is not creationism, why would you think that FSM makes fun of Christians? Could it be that the ID folk are lying through their teeth about the role of religion in the ID movement?
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:25:50 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
To: ClearCase_guy
The FSM makes fun of Intelligent Design, and we know that ID is not a religious theory -- the folks who invented it even said so.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:30:55 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: Junior
From the Amazon write-up:
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I guess it's not an attempt to mock the belief that Life was created by God. Sorry. My mistake.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:34:06 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: ClearCase_guy
No its not just Christians. Whites and men are fair game too.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:37:24 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: retMD
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:43:23 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(There is no freedom like knowledge, no slavery like ignorance. - Ali ibn Ali-Talib)
To: balrog666
Hey! I was told "FSM was created to make fun of ID proponents."
You seem to be mis-using the FSM and somehow treating it as a stand-in for the Christian God. That's not what it's for!
Or so they say.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:46:47 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Or so they say. Yes.... Or so they say.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:48:17 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: ClearCase_guy
It's to mock ID proponents. They're the ones claiming it's not about religion, then turning around and claiming anyone mocking ID is mocking Christianity.
I don't make this stuff up, I just report it.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:50:04 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: elkfersupper
And a lot of Christians don't.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:53:16 PM PDT
by
mlc9852
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