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Pastafarians in Poland Continue to Make News

The Polish chapter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been denied recognition as an official religion, but they are still making news. 

Polish Pastafarians Determined to be Recognized

Polish Pastafarians are serious about registering the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but have met with resistance.

“Most religions were persecuted at the beginning of their existence,” the COTFSM reflected.

The COTFSM is prepared to appeal to Poland's Supreme Administrative Court (NSA), and “if there are further problems, we declare that we will bring a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.” 

One of the administrators of the Polish wing of the COTFSM is Armand Ryfinski, a member of the liberal, anti-clerical Palikot's Movement, currently the third largest party in Poland's lower house of parliament.

Flying Spaghetti Monster News

The South Brunswick Patch reports: 

At about noon on Feb. 2, South Brunswick Police responded to the MVC facility on Route 130 in Dayton on reports that a man renewing his driver's license refused to remove the pasta strainer he was wearing on his head for his license photo, according to a police report. 

Williams, 24, of Egg Harbor Township, said the strainer is a religious head covering and he had a right to wear it for the photo. Williams said he practices Pastafarianism, which was created in 2005 in response to a hearing in the Kansas State Board of Education on evolution versus intelligent design. 

In 2011, an Austrian Pastafarian successfully challenged for the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver's license photo based on religious freedom.

By design, the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma. 

Flying Spaghetti Monster Church in Poland

Pastafarians are meeting with opposition from conservatives as they attempt to register the church as an official religion.

Also, the Catholics are ticked off about it.

Flying Spaghetti Monster Appears In Animation

Smash5 Animation Studios released an animation online series titled, "Hell Yeah". It features Satan as the manager in Hell who is trying to get his old job back in Heaven and includes a visit from the Flying Spaghetti Monster and some outrageous Pastafarian space pirates.

Get yer Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pirate Fish gear at Ring of Fire Enterprises, matey. 

New! Russell's China Teapot Lapel Pin

In response to customer requests, Ring of Fire Enterprises has created a teapot pin to symbolize Bertram Russell's thoughts on atheism:

“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.” - Bertrand Russell

"Russell's Teapot" lapel pin is a full 3d shape in bright silver. 1" wide. It is $9.95 and is available here.

Flying Spaghetti Monster in War on Christmas

Taiwanese animators used the Flying Spaghetti Monster in their "War on Christmas" animation.

New! Tiktaalik Fish Car Emblem

Ring of Fire Enterprises created a new Tiktaalik car emblem after receiving multiple requests from customers.

Tiktaalik roseae, better known as the "fishapod," is a 375 million year old fossil fish which was discovered in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 by scientists from Columbia University. Discovery of "Tiktaalik" shed light on a pivotal point in the history of life on Earth: when the very first fish ventured out onto land. 

More about the Tiktaalik discovery can be found at Wikipedia and the University of Chicago website.