Flying Spaghetti Monster Lands Outside Tennessee Courthouse
Flying Spaghetti Monster Lands Outside Tennessee Courthouse
A sculpture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the goofball deity cooked up to protest a Kansas legal battle over evolution, went on display outside a courthouse in Cumberland County, Tennessee, late last month.
Ariel and David Safdie created the sculpture, which depicts the taste-tempting god worshiped by adherents of the “Pastafarian” parody religion practiced by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
A statement from the installment ceremony helps explain the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s place in the grand debate about religion, evolution, free speech and noodle dishes:
“We are lucky enough to live in a country that allows us, its citizens, the freedom of speech. I have chosen to put up a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to represent the discourse between people of all different beliefs. The many faiths, ethnicities and backgrounds of Cumberland County’s residents make our community a stronger richer place…. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a pile of noodles and meatballs, but it is meant to open up discussion and provoke thought. Being able to put up a statue is a celebration of our freedom as Americans; a freedom to be different, to express those differences, and to do it amongst neighbors — even if it is in a noodley way.”
The artists’ interpretation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster sits alongside an Iraq war memorial, chainsaw-carved monkeys and a sculpture of Jesus carrying a cross, according to the Crossville Chronicle.
I think freethinker groups across the nation need to start putting together collections to get these put up in front of EVERY courthouse in the US. It’s time we started exercising the rights afforded to every citizen of the US.
Just because you have the right does not mean you have to exercise it. I support this case because this particular court house lawn is host to many different displays.
Putting an FSM in front of every courthouse would be a real asshole move. We don’t want to be assholes. The fundamentalists already have that covered.
That wasn’t exactly what I meant. I meant to say that we should put one in front of every courthouse that currently has some kind of christian bullshit in front of it. Sitting back and letting them get their way time after time is why they continue to win.