An Austrian atheist applying for a drivers’ license insisted upon wearing a sieve for his picture, citing a law permitting confessional headgear in official photographs. The seive, representing the atheist’s passionate devotion to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, delayed his license acquisition for three years. BBC writes:
A self-confessed atheist, Mr Alm says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light-hearted faith whose members call themselves pastafarians.
A medical interview established the self-styled ‘pastafarian’ was mentally fit to drive. The group’s website states that “the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma.”
In response to pressure for American schools to teach the Christian theory known as intelligent design, as an alternative to natural selection, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wrote to the Kansas School Board asking for the pastafarian version of intelligent design to be taught to schoolchildren, as an alternative to the Christian theory.
. . . The license took three years to come through and, according to Mr Alm, he was asked to submit to a medical interview to check on his mental fitness to drive but – straining credulity – his efforts have finally paid off.
I deem this statement made! His Noodliness has ordained it.
Sounds like this story has some holes in it.
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A sieve? Holes? Get it?
OK, I’ve got to get back to work.
This is why no one likes atheists (or Todd’s puns).
The only statement this guy made is that he has so little going on in his life he’s willing to wait three years to get a new license just to wear a kitchen implement on his head in the photo. A statement, indeed.
@Chundy: Look, I really had to strain to come up with that pun. The whole process is rather draining. I pasta milestone with that one, too. My thousandth bad pun in…I don’t know, let me check the colander…
Pastafarians aren’t atheists, get your story right!
Well played Mr Alm.