Dusty Pancakes said:
"Noodly Appendage" Do they actually believe that this whole thing was created by damned noodles? Earth to idiots -- Noodles didn't exist in any pre-historic time.
And the dinosaur fossils were put on earth to test our faith. Because Earth didn't exist at the time the dinosaurs supposedly roamed the earth.
Yes, pastafarianism makes rediculous claims, and knowingly so. But so does every other sect, cult and religion in the world. You can no more disprove the existence of a flying spaghetti monster than you can disprove the existence of God. Yes, most people who follow pastafarianism are perfectly aware it isn't true, and chances are that kid's one of them. But we can't just assume that goes for everyone, since there might very well be nutjobs around that actually believe in it - just like there might be nutjobs around that actually believe in christianity or hinuism.
No matter how rediculous a religion might seem to you, you have to treat it as an equal to the other religions. Because none of them are verifiable, the only thing that separates them is the amount of believers. And hey, there's a large part of the christian clique that don't belive in God either, but people still need to respect their 'faith'.
Bottom line is that either you accept all religion, or you accept none. Otherwise you're discriminating against opinion and faith, which is probably the most undemocratic thing you can do.
Personally I don't really care if they ban religious attire in schools or not - but I do insist that if they ban one type of it, then they should ban them all. Equality, please.