Beware Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster

In reporting this event the newspaper seems a trifle astonished. 'Pastafarians rejoice as Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is granted permission to register as a religion in Poland. A church that worships an invisible flying spaghetti monster can now apply to be registered as an official religion in Poland, after a 2013 court ruling was overturned on Tuesday.' (Independent, 9 April) Their astonishment is a little hard to fathom as we already have a religion that boasts a virgin birth, turning water into wine and a return from the dead. A Flying Spaghetti Monster seems a little mundane in comparison. RD