A federal judge ruled Thursday that “Pastafarianism” isn’t a real religion worthy of accommodations after a practicing inmate put in a bid for the "ability to order and wear religious clothing and pendants, the right to meet for weekly worship services and classes and the right to receive communion.”
So, there you have it. Not all religions are equally silly under the law.
“This is not a question of theology: it is a matter of basic reading comprehension. The FSM Gospel is plainly a work of satire, meant to entertain while making a pointed political statement. To read it as religious doctrine would be little different from grounding a "religious exercise" on any other work of fiction.”
“Of course, there are those who contend—and Cavanaugh is probably among them—that the Bible or the Koran are just as fictional as those books. It is not always an easy line to draw. But there must be a line beyond which a practice is not ‘religious’ simply because a plaintiff labels it as such.”
“The Court concludes that ‘FSMism’ is on the far side of that line.”
Therefore Atheists are now prohibited from using the FSM in their general arguments against religion. Q.E.D.
