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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. Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The idea was to show that religions are ridiculous, not to join the ranks of the bullshit peddlers.

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    1. Re:Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is how all major religions come to be. Eventually, everybody just forgets that it was a joke.

    2. Re:Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is how all major religions come to be. Eventually, everybody just forgets that it was a joke.

      Not a joke, a system of control. Christianity as we know it today may well have been deliberately created by the Romans as a way of manipulating the Jews, who were becoming inconvenient at the time, rioting and killing one another in the streets over the nature of Jehovah. Scientology was founded on a bet, and designed primarily to make money. Mormonism was created by a known scam artist who was trying to bilk people out of money; Mormonism was his second attempt. All the religions whose origins we know about were created for the purpose of manipulating people.

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  2. Flying Spaghetti Marriages by penguinoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    You may now touch the bride with your noodly appendage.

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