Kid suspended: wearing Pirate garb to school - his religion?

[accadacca]

Full Story (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=43272&in_page_id=2)

A hoy mateys...can I get a hall pass. :lol8:

[nefarious]

I never thought the Flying Spaghetti Monster was very funny, but the kid is a riot. I just hope he doesn't push it too far and get himself kicked out of school for good.

The antics of the kid are hilarious, but if I were an administrator, I would have no sense of humor about it. The last thing we need to have is a pirate-like version of Miracle on 34th Street being played out in real life.

[Sombeech]

"Pastafarians follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and believe that the world was created by the touch of his noodly appendage."

:roflol:

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03/fsm2_175x125.jpg


You may think the kid is nuts, but think about the school admin who heard the word "Religion".

Darwinism, Evolution, Anti-US conspiracies, but religion? :nono:

[nefarious]

The kid is using the 1st Amendment in an attempt to manipulate the school administration. This has nothing to do with banning religion from public schools.

As to the banning of religion in schools, I think the LDS seminary program could serve as a model that would satisfy all sides in the debate. Kids would go off campus to a private institution to receive religious education, and the public schools would apply the credit earned there as an elective course.

Finally, evolution is science and there is no legitimate reason not to teach it. The only "controversy" surrounding evolutionary theory is religiously based, and it's a really bad idea to politicize science (or religion). Religion survived the discovery that we are not at the center of the universe in Gallileo's time, I wager the important discoveries of today won't harm it either.

[Sombeech]

http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg


http://www.venganza.org/him2.jpg

[Iceaxe]

I converted long ago to Pastafarian.....

The clincher when when I found out pirates get to do lots of rapin' and pillaging when not drinkin' rum :2thumbs:

http://uutah.com/forum/files/118-1805_img__small_.jpg

http://uutah.com/forum/files/118-1807_img__small_.jpg

[Wilma]

In the first pic it looks like your wife is holding her little musket just a tad close to your barnacles there matey. :haha:

[Iceaxe]

In the first pic it looks like your wife is holding her little musket just a tad close to your barnacles there matey. :haha:

Yeah... she raped me at gun point..... what a tramp!

:haha:

[nefarious]

GraphsI'm not good at reading graphs and stuff, but it looks like a decrease in the number of pirates is causing global warming. Huh. So maybe the kid is kinda' like an environmentalist pirate?
:treehugger:

[Cirrus2000]

GraphsI'm not good at reading graphs and stuff, but it looks like a decrease in the number of pirates is causing global warming.
Yup, cuz pirates are divine beings. It's all in the article, matey:

Furthermore, they acknowledge pirates as being 'absolute divine beings', and stress that the worldwide decline in the number of pirates has directly led to global warming.

[Don]

Of course the Pastafarians take it too far and blame the decline of Pirates for tsunamis and hurricanes and giant oil spills ('that spill would never have happened if pirates had chased the drillers out of the gulf with their divine piracy').
They seem to be ok with homosexuality though, makes ya wonder about the sex and sexual orientation of a flying spaghetti monster...


(yep, back in the basement)

[mattandersao]

"I converted long ago to Pastafarian....."


HOW DO I CONVERT? DO I WALK THE PLANK FOR MY BAPTISM AS THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!

[Wasatch Rebel]

Finally, evolution is science and there is no legitimate reason not to teach it. The only "controversy" surrounding evolutionary theory is religiously based, and it's a really bad idea to politicize science (or religion). Religion survived the discovery that we are not at the center of the universe in Gallileo's time, I wager the important discoveries of today won't harm it either.

Except for that it's still just a theory, that people treat as proven. Teach it as one reason things may be the way they are, but until someone can prove how life spontaneously generated from non-life--well, it's still theory.

[Don]

Except for that it's still just a theory, that people treat as proven. Teach it as one reason things may be the way they are, but until someone can prove how life spontaneously generated from non-life--well, it's still theory.

Really? REALLY?
It's just a theory like the theory of gravity is just a theory. Yeah, gravity might one day be proven to be some silly trick of the math because it's actually the mind of god holding things down and spinning the planets around the sun (if that theory even holds up; it might actually be the sun spinning around the center of the universe because we humans happen to live here) but that seems pretty unlikely.
Have you read a real science book about evolution? The science is sound, the theory is sound.
We just don't need a convoluted, irrational and bigoted biblical perspective about creation taught alongside sound rational science. Not to mention WHICH convoluted, irrational and religious perspective should be taught? Which is the WHOLE POINT of the flying spaghetti monster; if you're going to teach one irrational religion then you should also teach about the flying spaghetti monster who created all life when he reached out His noodley appendage...

(Also, this was a funny thread but we're on our way to the basement now aren't we?)

[cachehiker]

Except for that it's still just a theory

with an insane preponderance of evidence that I, for one, don't consider least bit incompatible with 99.9% of Christian theology. It's only the literalists who think every biblical reference to a day must equal exactly 24 hours and that "son of God" only appears in reference to a single individual that seem to have a problem with it. I suggest you put your children to death the first time they curse you just like Leviticus recommends.

[Cirrus2000]

Except for that it's still just a theory, that people treat as proven.

:facepalm:

Wow, second time I've facepalmed today... Maybe I'm cranky about having left the canyons behind again?

[stefan]

Except for that it's still just a theory, that people treat as proven. Teach it as one reason things may be the way they are, but until someone can prove how life spontaneously generated from non-life--well, it's still theory.

except for the fact that there is no other scientific theory that comes even remotely close to successfuly expaining what evolution does and as such there is no reason to teach any other non-scientific, fantastic, non-testable, half-baked ideas in a classroom.

and any private religious school that feels compelled to do so should have half the brains to make clear the difference between a scientific theory and a religious storybook explanation by not even presenting them in the same disucssion or on equal footting and certainly not try to slip the students the inane rhetoric (inadequately) discounting science, as this only does a disservice to developing the critical thinking skills of the students.

[Scott Card]

Wait for it.... wait for it.... naw.. not steping into this yet......

Back to the subject at hand. Pirate life as a religion. Hmmmm. That is almost as good as one of my client's religions, "the Church of the Most High Hemp Goddess" I found out that there was not a lot of doctrine but there was a lot of communion or sacrament.:haha:

[ststephen]

Wait for it.... wait for it.... naw.. not steping into this yet......

Back to the subject at hand. Pirate life as a religion. Hmmmm. That is almost as good as one of my client's religions, "the Church of the Most High Hemp Goddess" I found out that there was not a lot of doctrine but there was a lot of communion or sacrament.:haha:

I too am going to refrain from bringing the Scopes Trial to Bogley. But on the thread of Pirating, we used to have a very popular celebration at my work. It was "Talk like a pirate day"! You would go to meetings and say stuff like "Arrrh, that's a mighty tough bug you've found there matey". I so miss the wonderful manager who instigated it...

[Randi]

Why can't girls be pirates? One of my pirate friends sent me this song when I told him that "I" was indeed a pirate too! No pirate emoticons? :fitz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ05Rvz0ybM&feature=related

[cachehiker]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4691059969_0257e1c6f5_t.jpg

Aaarrggh! Mateys!