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Pastafarians are being persecuted
October 19, 2020 at 11:34 pm
The head of Russia’s Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mikhail Iosilevich, has been arrested. His computers, phones, and passport have been seized, and access to his bank accounts have been blocked.
Mikhail has been charged with working with a democratic opposition group, Open Russia, that was outlawed by Putin’s government. He is being investigated for allegedly hosting lectures for independent election monitors, held at the premises of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, last month.
A number of “witnesses to these activities” have been targeted for investigation by the State. They have been questioned, and have had their homes searched.
https://www.spaghettimonster.org/2020/10...-arrested/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Pastafarians are being persecuted
October 20, 2020 at 7:37 am
Is this satire or is this serious?
Putin is a dictator, so this wouldn't surprise me, but FSM is a satire of religion.
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RE: Pastafarians are being persecuted
October 20, 2020 at 9:02 am
Fake religion?! But how can early pastafarians live a life of persecution and even martyrdom for something that is just a myth? It is obvious that they are assured that FSM really existed and boiled for their sins.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Pastafarians are being persecuted
October 21, 2020 at 4:32 am
Lest not forget the Puttanesca Precept. Or the bywords of St. Bolognese
"Blessed be the Marinara Maidens for deep they hold the Ragù and the principles of Pesto"
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RE: Pastafarians are being persecuted
October 21, 2020 at 9:19 am
(October 20, 2020 at 9:02 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Fake religion?! But how can early pastafarians live a life of persecution and even martyrdom for something that is just a myth? It is obvious that they are assured that FSM really existed and boiled for their sins.
Today, the rival religion The Holy Nuddleism broke off from the FSM.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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RE: Pastafarians are being persecuted
October 22, 2020 at 9:15 am
(October 21, 2020 at 11:06 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: (October 20, 2020 at 7:37 am)Brian37 Wrote: Is this satire or is this serious?
Putin is a dictator, so this wouldn't surprise me, but FSM is a satire of religion.
I take great offense to this, I hope your soup goes cold!
RAmen
THN takes it seriously as well. This is a step in the right direction of interfaith recognition for both our faiths in the divinity of the Holy Pastaverse.
In Noodle We Cook.
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