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Remember Flying Spaghetti Monster? The creator just got an $80,000 advance to write the Pastafarian Bible.

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I just … I … uhm …

THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim.

The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a “jihad”.

The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: “The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone.”

The offending lid was spotted in a branch in Park Royal last week by business development manager Rashad Akhtar, 27, of High Wycombe.

He was not satisfied by the decision to withdraw the cones and has called on Muslims to boycott Burger King. He said: “This is my jihad. How can you say it is a spinning swirl? If you spin it one way to the right you are offending Muslims.”

A Muslim Council spokesman said: “We commend the sensitive and prompt action that Burger King has taken.”

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Greg Howard has a great post about what bugs him about intelligent design.

I was reading a proponent of intelligent design in a mainstream newspaper recently, and he criticized evolution because it made all these suppositions about how history happened but “no one was there to see it so no one really knows for sure.” So all we need to do is trust our eyes? I once saw Ronald McDonald doing somersaults into a mosh pit full of talking cucumbers, but that doesn’t mean it really happened. Rather, it taught me to never eat anything that that’s sold in the parking lot before a Grateful Dead show.

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An open letter to Kansas Schools from the original Pastafarian

Some find that hard to believe, so it may be helpful to tell you a little more about our beliefs. We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power. Also, you may be surprised to hear that there are over 10 million of us, and growing. We tend to be very secretive, as many people claim our beliefs are not substantiated by observable evidence. What these people don’t understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers that this artifact is approximately 10,000 years old, as the half-life of Carbon-14 appears to be 5,730 years. But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage. We have numerous texts that describe in detail how this can be possible and the reasons why He does this. He is of course invisible and can pass through normal matter with ease.

Heh. Noodly Appendage.

More at BoingBoing

aaand the inevitable wikipedia entry.

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Brought to you by the LA Times.

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Science and religion are not antonyms. This kind of crap seriously needs to stop.

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Bill Moyers on compassion in Christianity and democracy

[via MeFi]

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God doesn’t believe in atheists.

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Bible recipes

Resurrection cookies

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Church defies Vatican and gives Kerry communion. This church also baptizes the children of gay couples.

Interesting.

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Vatican says no to communion for pro-choice politicians

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How to argue with creationists without being boring

[via kottke.org]

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The Power of Cheesus

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A pilot asked passengers on an American Airlines flight to raise their hands if they were Christians, telling them they were “crazy” if they weren’t, some of the passengers said Monday.

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Here’s a Salon interview with a Catholic priest who got invited to one of the screenings of Mel Gibson’s “interpretation” of Jesus’ last days.

There isn’t much I didn’t expect in there (although it’s very interesting), but the reason it’s worth noting to me, is that the priest who was interviewed gives me some hope for individuals in the church. The man has a very well thought out, compassionate view of religion.

An excerpt:

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