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4/16/16 10:36:18 AM
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NZ gives them the proper respect.
New Zealand stages first Pastafarian wedding on pirate boat. The light-hearted Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has staged its first legally recognised wedding.
Toby Ricketts and Marianna Fenn tied the "noodle knot" in the New Zealand South Island town of Akaroa.
The happy couple say that guidelines of the Pastafarian religion stipulate that wedding celebrants must be pirates.
Members of the church profess the belief that the world was created by an airborne spaghetti and meatballs-based being and humans evolved from pirates.
New Zealand officials last month designated the religion as an officially-recognised faith, allowing Wellington-based Pastafarian Karen Martyn the legal right to conduct marriages.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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War on religious freedom continues apace
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rcareaga)
- (19)
- April 14, 2016, 10:31:54 AM EDT
It's taught in UU faith classes
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malraux)
- April 14, 2016, 10:45:16 AM EDT
That's a tricky one
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drook)
- (16)
- April 14, 2016, 10:46:02 AM EDT
"A tough line to walk"
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rcareaga)
- (15)
- April 14, 2016, 12:28:21 PM EDT
Amazing list
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drook)
- (3)
- April 14, 2016, 01:20:02 PM EDT
copyright issues
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rcareaga)
- April 14, 2016, 01:42:34 PM EDT
With those selections, it should be longer.
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static)
- April 14, 2016, 05:41:21 PM EDT
#50
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scoenye)
- April 14, 2016, 07:25:43 PM EDT
My guess is it's just a matter of time.
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Another Scott)
- (10)
- April 14, 2016, 05:53:08 PM EDT
See what it took for the Wiccans
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scoenye)
- (7)
- April 14, 2016, 07:19:44 PM EDT
I'm a little more sympathetic to
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rcareaga)
- (6)
- April 14, 2016, 07:52:41 PM EDT
now, now I have never had a wiccan strive to get in my wallet
-NT
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boxley)
- April 14, 2016, 08:13:52 PM EDT
Gardner was not the worst of his time.
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static)
- April 14, 2016, 09:55:09 PM EDT
You are of course correct about Mormonism and Scientology, but your incredulity...
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CRConrad)
- (3)
- May 5, 2017, 09:29:54 AM EDT
Wicca, Druidism etc.
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Andrew Grygus)
- (2)
- May 5, 2017, 11:33:14 AM EDT
Yeah, IIUC Nordic Neo-Nazis are also big on the Asatro. Sigh...
-NT
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CRConrad)
- May 5, 2017, 12:19:41 PM EDT
LRPD: "Why, that looks so dangerous - I'm sure I'll learn something wonderful!"
-NT
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malraux)
- May 5, 2017, 03:39:47 PM EDT
Like smoke breaks for nonsmokers
-NT
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drook)
- (1)
- April 15, 2016, 07:52:17 AM EDT
Yup.
-NT
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Another Scott)
- April 15, 2016, 09:49:06 PM EDT
NZ gives them the proper respect.
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a6l6e6x)
- April 16, 2016, 10:36:18 AM EDT
Remember, people in 1900 didn't know what an atom was. They didn't know its structure.
They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS... None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn't know what you are talking about.
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