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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/1
6/pastafarianism-is-not-a-religion-dutch-court-
rules
Mienke de Wilde is now considering taking her case Officially recognised by the New Zealand
to the European court of human rights. government, which approved it to conduct
marriages in 2015, the church’s status is disputed in
The Netherlands’ highest court said de Wilde, a law
many other countries, although several have
student from Nijmegen, could not be exempted on
allowed followers to wear colanders or pirate
religious grounds from a ban on headwear in official
outfits for ID photographs.
identity photographs, because Pastfarianism was
essentially a satire and not a serious faith. Among its tenets, laid down by Henderson in a 2006
parody of organised religion called The Gospel of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster, are eight “I’d Really
Rather You Didn’ts” (according to the gospel, two of
the original 10 got lost).
Pastafarian followers protest for the right of that I can locate and retrieve it.