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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 20, 2019 15:29:09 GMT
Thanks to a court ruling, a representative of the make-believe Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster led prayer at a government meeting in Alaska this week. The prayer at the government meeting in Homer, Alaska, followed a 2018 decision by an Alaska state court that ruled the previous policy – only permitting individuals from government-approved religious groups – was unconstitutional. The ACLU brought the suit, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly could have abandoned the prayer tradition altogether, but instead adopted a new policy that allows anyone to sign up to pray. On Tuesday, Barrett Fletcher, a pastor of Pastafarianism – also called the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster – offered a prayer. He wore a colander on his head “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,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 20, 2019 15:35:09 GMT
Bad enough that the ACLU and the courts feel the need to intrude in such things anyway, but this particular group isn't even a real religion. They are a social group whose only purpose is to mock Christians and other people with strong religious beliefs. Not to mention making a mockery of the governmental proceeding at which they "prayed".
For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. (Rom. 14:11) Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:9-11) Hallowed be Thy Name...
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Post by barb43 on Sept 22, 2019 21:25:52 GMT
Bad enough that the ACLU and the courts feel the need to intrude in such things anyway, but this particular group isn't even a real religion. They are a social group whose only purpose is to mock Christians and other people with strong religious beliefs. Not to mention making a mockery of the governmental proceeding at which they "prayed". You're absolutely right, Mel, but remember, in today's secular society, there are many people who would use your first sentence to describe Christians, and they would believe they had the right to do that because of the 1st amendment, about which they probably know enough to be dangerous, and they don't know much of anything about Christianity or civil behavior. I don't agree with allowing the Pastafarians to have any part in anything serious, let alone anything that involves religious expression, but ... they've somehow become recognized as a religion so I have to give them the right to stand up and make fools of themselves.
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