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It’s one of those feel good holiday stories of religious tolerance. This one comes with a spaghetti monster.
A display went up at the Florida State Capital this week depicting the pseudo-God of Pastafarians everywhere, namely The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Typically portrayed by followers as a caboodle of spaghetti noodles with big googly eyes, the display at the capital is a collection of shredded cardboard strips on top of a red chair. Googly eyes included. There is also a sign which reads: ” A closed mouth catches no noodly appendages.”- ProvHerb 3:27″
Beautiful. Profound. Serious.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Peter Wood, an FSU student, applied for the display.
“It’s OK for us to have different views in society and I think it’s important to realize there are more than one way to view things,”Wood told the newspaper.
Followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are called Pastafarians if you didn’t already know, and the pasta puns are aplenty.
One lovable slogan says “he boiled for your sins” and usually accompanies a picture of the big FSM in the sky cutely caught in a spaghetti drainer.
The church’s official texts are very satirical and read tongue in cheek, but they maintain that they are a “real religion.”
Joining the religion is incredibly easy according to the church’s website; if you think it, you are.
“So you want to be a Pastafarian? Great. Consider yourself a member. You’ll notice there’s no hoops to jump through. You don?t need to pay anything,?” it says in it’s joining section.
The FSM is mostly associated with atheists and the secular- all around the web one can find nifty artwork and memorabilia.
This display follows the placing of a Festivus Pole made of empty beer cans at the capital. Festivus is a fake holiday created by television character Frank Constanza from Seinfeld, when he became frustrated with the commercialism of the holidays. This display however, came with a sobering “separation of church and state” message.
Watch out Red-Florida, the atheists are coming for Baby Jesus.
