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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 10:37 AM Sep 2019

I like this religion and its tenets

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HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A pastor wearing a colander on his head offered the opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to open a local government meeting in Alaska, the latest blessing from a nontraditional church since a court ruling.

Barrett Fletcher, the Pastafarian pastor, noted the duties performed by the members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in his Tuesday message, adding a few of them “seem to feel they can’t do the work without being overseen by a higher authority, ” Kenai radio station KSRM reported Wednesday.

“So, I’m called to invoke the power of the true inebriated creator of the universe, the drunken tolerator (sic) of the all lesser and more recent gods, and maintainer of gravity here on earth. May the great Flying Spaghetti Monster rouse himself from his stupor and let his noodly appendages ground each assembly member in their seats,” Fletcher said.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pastafarian-pastor-invocation_n_5d839ab4e4b0849d47253405
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I like this religion and its tenets (Original Post) packman Sep 2019 OP
Ramen! Newest Reality Sep 2019 #1
And now, rsdsharp Sep 2019 #2
Amateurs Thyla Sep 2019 #3
May we all abide in the blessed state of blissful wastedfulness. Ramen. n/t sarge43 Sep 2019 #4
Shouldn't he be dressed as a pirate? Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2019 #5
Pirate attire is for expressing respect at formal occasions Nac Mac Feegle Sep 2019 #6
Bwaaaahaha! Wawannabe Sep 2019 #7

Nac Mac Feegle

(971 posts)
6. Pirate attire is for expressing respect at formal occasions
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 01:55 AM
Sep 2019

I can't think of anything less deserving of respectful attention than a gathering of politicians.


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