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Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo
An anonymous reader writes "Eddie Castillo is the first American to successfully have his government-issued photo identification taken while wearing a colander, though DPS officials are reportedly planning to follow up with Castillo in order to 'rectify' the situation. Others have tried unsuccessfully, and Castillo told KLBK that he was surprised at his victory, which he called a 'political and religious milestone for all atheists everywhere.'" Two years ago Niko Alm won the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head although Austrian authorities required him to obtain a doctor's certificate that he was "psychologically fit" to drive.
...do people really still think of religions in 2013 as about sky-fairies rather than philosophies or systems of ethics?
I know the loudest and the ones who receive all the press coverage from the people who can take advantage of their extremism seem to be all about mindless devotion to a higher power, but the billions of "religious faithful" tend to be more sophisticated than that.
And the primarty atheistic religions of the 20th century - Soviet communism and American capitalism - show that even the modern human mind is not lifted out of reach of objects of mindless worship.