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.

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OK, it's moderately amusing, but...

[Joining Yet Again]

...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.

Re:OK, it's moderately amusing, but...

[tempmpi]

Saying communism and capitalism are "atheistic religions" is a comment so far off the mark I don't even know where to begin.

Communism, at least in most versions of it, is a atheistic religion because it requires its followers to be atheists. Just like Christianity is a theistic religion because it requires it followers to be theists.

How in the world do atheists "worship" communism or capitalism?

Being an atheists does not make someone automatically a follower of communism or capitalism. Just like being a theist does not make someone a Christian or Muslim or worshipping the Christian God or Alah. Someone is an atheist if he or she does not believe in a theistic god, nothing else. Someone can still be an atheist, even if he or she believes in something that is structurally similar to traditional religious faith.

I've seen no evidence to suggest that, en masse, they think about religion from a philosophical point of view.

Can you then point me to any evidence that the "religious faithful", think about god in terms of a big guy on a cloud or something like that?

Heckler's Veto?

[MickLinux]

So this is an attempt at a heckler's veto? How do Austrians feel about hecklers attempting to sdestroy their freedoms?

Afaik, it's not supposed to be permitted by the US Supreme court, but sometimes it happens --such as with the heckler's veto that won the day in the case of Âanta Monic Holiday displays.

But you have to expect some level of 'least resistance' from some politicians. So the Heckler's veto CAN win the day. Sometimes. Even if illegal.

Re:Hey

[HornWumpus]

The Reds fucked it all up for you. Atheism is their official religion, and they were responsible for almost all the violent death in the 20th century (using an expansive definition of 'Reds' to include all authoritarian socialists).