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Sometimes people do strange things – things you yourself would never think of.
And to be fair, wearing a colander on your head while getting your driver licence photo is quite random.
Russell is claiming that wearing a colander is a requirement of his religion.
He belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, otherwise known as the Pastafarian religion. Read more
The Pastafarians are persecuted in some countries. In Australia, for example, Guy Albon, a 30-year-old disability worker in Adelaide, said his four guns and licence were confiscated by police after their attention was drawn to his firearms licence photo, which shows with him the colander. Read more
A student was suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.
The student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear ‘full pirate regalia’ as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism. Read more
Pastafarians follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster and believe that the world was created by the touch of his noodly appendage.
Furthermore, they acknowledge pirates as being ‘absolute divine beings’, and stress that the worldwide decline in the number of pirates has directly led to global warming.
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