Atheist Meme Base. Austrian driver allowed 'pastafarian' headgear photo. 14 July 2011Last updated at 09:53 Having received his driving licence, Niko Alm now wants to get pastafarianism officially recognised An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".
Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons. Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism. Later a police spokesman explained that the licence was issued because Mr Alm's face was fully visible in the photo. "The photo was not approved on religious grounds. He was speaking on Wednesday, after Austrian media had first reported Mr Alm's reason for wearing the pasta strainer. After receiving his application the Austrian authorities had required him to obtain a doctor's certificate that he was "psychologically fit" to drive. A medical interview established the self-styled "pastafarian" was mentally fit to drive. God. It has been rumoured that God is a huge fan of Big Brother, and He has launched His own version of the show in heaven.
“God is dead.” “You bet He is!” “Nietzsche is dead. Guess who won that bet?” ~ God on Nietzsche, 1900 God, (who also goes by the aliases Yahweh, Allah and Jehovah to evade debt collectors) is the supreme Holy Lord. The First Bet and Creation of the Universe Just before Creation, on the night preceding October 23, 4004 B.C., God was sitting at a non-existent table playing a non-existent game of poker with several other non-existent deities. In just six days, God created the heaven and the earth, sun and moon, stars, puppies, kittens, death cap mushrooms and fake dinosaur bones. The First People: Adam & Eve God created the first man Adam from the dust of the ground mixed with God's spittle, and placed him in a magical garden in Eden, Nevada (now known as Las Vegas, Nevada). Satan, on the other hand, told the always-naked siblings the naked Truth. God's Greatest Prophets Job. Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger.
I want to talk about atheists and anger.
This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry. But I think it's important. One of the most common criticisms lobbed at the newly-vocal atheist community is, "Why do you have to be so angry? " So I want to talk about: 1. 2. And 3. So let's start with why we're angry.
I'm angry that according to a recent Gallup poll, only 45 percent of Americans would vote for an atheist for President. I'm angry that atheist conventions have to have extra security, including hand-held metal detectors and bag searches, because of fatwas and death threats. I'm angry that atheist soldiers -- in the U.S. armed forces -- have had prayer ceremonies pressured on them and atheist meetings broken up by Christian superior officers, in direct violation of the First Amendment.