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Old 03-31-2008, 07:35 PM
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I'm not making this up:

http://laughingsquid.com/flying-spag...ee-courthouse/

http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9906870-52.html

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March 31, 2008 1:36 PM PDT

Flying Spaghetti Monster statue at Tennessee courthouse

Posted by Daniel Terdiman

If you're a fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the gospel of Pastafarianism, then you have to love what's going on in Crossville, Tenn.

There, as I discovered today on Laughing Squid, some members of the local chapter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have gotten city approval to erect a statue of "His Noodly Appendage" outside the local courthouse.

I talked briefly by phone Monday with Ariel Safdie, one of the local chapter members involved with building and installing the statue, and she said that for her and her fellow members, the issue involved in building the statue and seeking and acquiring approval to install it wasn't about religion, but about freedom of speech.

That seems perfectly appropriate to me, since the whole point of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is to make the point--via free speech--that if communities are going to give credence to one theory of the origins of life in their schools, then they also have to give credence to others.

Safdie and others applied for permission to install their statue, and it was granted by the city of Crossville.

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Old 03-31-2008, 09:02 PM
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RAmen! Though it's a slippery slope. Now other groups will want to put their religious statues outside the courthouse too.
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It's as good as some of the "art" sculptures I've seen around Philly!

Good for them!
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This is cool! I, myself, have been touched by his noodley appendage.
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I want one so I can put it right next to my Buddhas...
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this is awesome

i mean...a flying spaghetti monster is just as valid as "god" in any of the religions out there

theyre all made up
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Awesome!

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