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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand (stuff.co.nz)

Posted by samzenpus on from the praising-pastafarians dept.

New submitter scrote-ma-hote writes: From stuff.co.nz, news comes that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is now able to solemnize marriages. The registration was listed in the NZ gazette yesterday. The Registrar-General decided that the Church met the criteria in New Zealand for solemnizing marriages, as per the Marriage Act 1955, namely that the "principal object of the organization was to uphold or promote religious beliefs, philosophical or humanitarian convictions."

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  1. Re:Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. by davester666 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, a whole bunch of them were founded on the guiding principle that a fool and his money are soon parted.

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  2. Re:Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. by Sique · · Score: 4, Informative
    The hypothesis about the Christian faith created by the Romans, while intriguing, has some problems with well researched facts.

    The christian faith was forbidden for most of the time of the Roman Empire, starting in the mid of the first century AD, and continuing until 313 AD, when the Edict of Milan was issued, while the three Jewish-Roman wars were fought between 66 AD and 137 AD, ending with the dissolution of the jewish society and the begin of the Diaspora. So during the whole time the Romans were "manipulating the Jews", the christian faith was forbidden and being punished by death.

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