I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Mocking religion? Always a good thing in my book.

Starting another new religion? NEVER a good thing.

I mean sure right now everybody understands that it's a parody and probably attend the services with their tongue firmly implanted in their cheek, but fifty to a hundred years down the line this could be the next tax exempt place of worship fighting to get their creation story taught in middle school science classes.

You know I bet those early Christians thought it was all for shits and giggles too.

But then the next thing you know you have some guy building a tax funded amusement park in Kentucky paying homage to a children's story about a giant boat.

Slippery slope my friends.

First official Pastafarian wedding to take place in New Zealand.

Courtesy of RadioNZ: 

Toby Ricketts and Marianna Young will be married by the leader of the New Zealand Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and attendees - bride and groom included - will be in full pirate regalia. 

Pastafarians believe in an airborne noodle god, wear colanders on their heads and practice a gentle form of piracy. 

The couple are recent converts to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and the bride-to-be Ms Young said a conventional marriage and all the traditions that went along with it did not appeal. 

"So this offered an opportunity to do something different that fitted for us."

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster started as a parody to protest the teaching of creationism in Kansas public schools.

And now look at how it has evolved.

And to be honest, is it really any more ridiculous than any of the other religions that it was created to mock?

Pastafarians of the world unite! Another small step for the non-theists.

Courtesy of the Immortal News: 

Just over the border from New Hampshire in the Massachusetts city of Lowell, a woman identifying herself as a follower of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), otherwise known as Pastafarianism, has been approved by the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) to wear a spaghetti strainer on top of her head in her state issued driver’s ID. 

The approval to wear the helmet was initially denied. However, citing religious grounds, Lowell resident Lindsay Miller filed an appeal. Following intervention by the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center, the RMV reversed their decision and allowed her to put on her colander and get her driver’s license picture taken. 

Silly? Absolutely.

But is it really any more silly than than wearing a Burqa, or a Jewish yarmulka, or even a cross around your neck?

I think not.

And I for one am glad that this clearly very dedicated congregant of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster did not have her constitutionally protected religious rights trampled on by the non-believers. 

Poland grants church of the Flying Spaghetti monster the right to register as a religion. So that just happened.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

A church that worships an invisible flying spaghetti monster can now apply to be registered as an official religion in Poland, after a 2013 court ruling was overturned on Tuesday. 

A Warsaw court rejected a ruling by the Regional Administrative Court because the it had not allowed the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) a two-month extension for submitting outstanding documents, Polskie Radio has reported. 

A group of Pastafarians who gathered outside the court shouting "pasta" during the hearing on Tuesday welcomed the ruling. 

In January, Pastafarian minister Christopher Schaeffer was sworn into the Pomfret New York Town Council this week with a colander on his head throughout the ceremony to represent his unique religious beliefs.

Am I the only one that predicts a new onslaught of Polish jokes in response to this, or we have we moved on from that kind of thing?

Starts off as a joke, and then becomes an established house of worship.

Pretty sure that's how Christianity started as well.

For those who are still in the dark you can learn more about the FSM at their website.

And while you're there do yourself a favor and read the about page.

City council member sworn in wearing colander to honor the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You know he boiled for your sins.

Mr. Schaeffer has clearly been touched by His noodly appendage.

Courtesy of the Observer:  

A unique style of headwear was present during newly-seated Pomfret Town Council member Christopher Schaeffer's oath of office Thursday afternoon, but it wasn't intended to keep his head warm. 

Schaeffer wore a colander (a strainer typically used to drain water from spaghetti) while Town Clerk Allison Dispense administered the oath of office to him before the board's reorganizational meeting. When the OBSERVER asked afterward why he wore a colander on his head, Schaeffer said he was a minister with an even more unique organization - the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. 

"It's just a statement about religious freedom," he said. "It's a religion without any dogma."

Okay can I say how much I am loving 2014 so far?

Click here to learn more about the Pastafarains.

FSM joins the Festivus pole at the Wisconsin capital. God I love religious diversity!

Courtesy of TPM:  

First, there was a Festivus pole. 

Then on Monday the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics group placed a "Flying Spaghetti Monster" among the holiday displays inside Wisconsin's Capitol. 

Any group that submits an application to Capitol police can erect a display in accordance with the First Amendment ban on state establishment of religion, according to the Associated Press. 

The student group's "pastafarian" deity was represented in the rotunda by a poster that proclaims the monster "boiled for your sins!" 

"This is the problem of allowing religious symbols to be displayed in government buildings," the student group wrote on its website. "When the State decided to turn the Capitol into an open forum, they opened the floodgates which the Flying Spaghetti Monster just sailed through. We would much prefer to keep government buildings free from all religious (and irreligious) messages, but if it must be "anything goes," we hope everyone takes advantage of this opportunity to advertise their own viewpoints - no matter how silly."

I ma beginning to think that the Wisconsin State Capital is the place to go this holiday season.

I mean after all where else can you get a taste for the depth of the religious diversity present in these United States?

Well besides Oklahoma that is.

Flying Spaghetti Monster makes appearance at religious conference.

When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion.

The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster being discussed at the American Academy of Religion?

Damn, 2008 is going to be an awesome year!

Get your Flying Spaghetti Monster e-cards here!

Just in time for the holiday season!

Holy Thanksgiving! Image of Flying Spaghetti Monster shows up in pumpkin pie!

This is not a joke. The Flying Spaghetti Monster has appeared to us in a pumpkin pie. Bless his noodley appendages!

I do not know why we were selected for such a blessing, but we receive it with glad and open hearts.

Well all I can say is, it is about time!

After years of ridiculous sightings of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ it is about time for a real deity to make an appearance!

Well if this does not finally gain the Flying Spaghetti Monster admittance into the "God club" then I don't know what it will take.

Click here to see a video about the fastest growing religion at MSU.

You just have to love those impish Pastafarians.

School punishes student for wearing symbol of his faith. Oh you are going to love this!

Bryan Killian doesn’t think that’s a fair reaction to his decision to come to North Buncombe High School wearing an eye patch and an inflatable cutlass.

The sophomore spent Wednesday at home after an administrator took issue with his accessories.

“I feel like my First Amendment was violated,” Killian, 16, said. “Freedom of religion and freedom of expression. That’s what I tried to do, and I got shot down.”
Freedom of religion?

Yes, Killian says, his “pirate regalia” is part of his faith — the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The kid has a point. If Christians are allowed to wear a crucifix, and Muslims are allowed to wear a burka, then how can this boy be denied his right to wear an eye patch?

I just love stuff like this!