I don't know about you but this has been real irritating to me.
The mockery of the sacred is not something I like to see.
A court in Nebraska has officially ruled that Pastafarianism is not a real religion,
and therefore a prison inmate with "several tattoos proclaiming his
faith" will not get $5 million or privileges to order and wear religious
clothing and pendants, nor meet for weekly worship services and classes
and receive communion.
The Federal judge ruled that The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a "real" religion eligible for protection under the First Amendment...
In
ruling against the inmate and the church of Pastafarianism, the judge
wrote "there must be a line beyond which a practice is not 'religious'
simply because a plaintiff labels it as such...
A prisoner could just as
easily read the works of Vonnegut or Heinlein and claim it as his holy
book, and demand accommodation of Bokononism or the Church of All Worlds
[citing Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land].
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Gospel is plainly a work of satire, meant
to entertain while making a pointed political statement," and thus not a
"real" religion.
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