Christopher Schaeffer, a Pastafarian minister, was sworn into a Pomfret, N.Y. Town Council final week wearing a colander, a Observer reported on Friday.
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Schaeffer is a member of a Church of a Flying Spaghetti Monster, a organisation founded by an non-believer in 2005 that has adopted a spaghetti sieve as a symbol.
“It’s usually a matter about eremite freedom,” Schaeffer told a Observer. “It’s a sacrament nonetheless any dogma.”
Bobby Henderson, owner of a Church of a Flying Spaghetti Monster, blogged about Schaeffer’s swearing-in on Monday, observant Schaeffer “may be a initial plainly Pastafarian sworn into office.”
“Some people will see it as repulsive or a pointer that he’s not holding a promise of bureau seriously,” Henderson pronounced of Schaeffer’s preference to wear a colander. “But we am totally assured that Schaeffer will heed himself as a Council member of a top caliber.”
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Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt
“a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/brad-pitt-20-percent-atheist-80-percent-agnostic-article-1.394661″ target=”_blank”I’m substantially 20 percent non-believer and 80 percent agnostic/a,” Pitt pronounced in 2009. “I don’t consider anyone unequivocally knows. You’ll possibly find out or not when we get there, until afterwards there’s no indicate meditative about it.” His prettier half, Jolie, pronounced in 2000: “a href=”http://www.avclub.com/articles/is-there-a-god,1394/” target=”_blank”There doesn’t need to be a God for me./a There’s something in people that’s spiritual, that’s godlike. we don’t feel like doing things usually given people contend things, nonetheless we also don’t unequivocally know if it’s improved to usually not trust in anything, either.”
Daniel Radcliffe
“a href=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/5734000/Daniel-Radcliffe-a-cool-nerd.html” target=”_blank”I’m an atheist, nonetheless I’m really loose about it/a,” a “Harry Potter” star pronounced in 2009. “I don’t evangelise my atheism, nonetheless we have a outrageous volume of honour for people like Richard Dawkins who do. Anything he does on television, we will watch.”
Julianne Moore
In a 2002 talk on “Inside a Actor’s Studio,” Moore was asked as partial of a series’ questionnaire, “If sky exists, what would we like God to contend during a pearly gates?” She replied: “Well, we theory we were wrong. we do exist!”
(a href=”http://youtu.be/_w1WyHsFbpM” target=”_blank”36:45/a)
Javier Bardem
In an talk in 2012, Bardem was discerning to contend “a href=”http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201210/javier-bardem-gq-october-2012-interview” target=”_blank”I’ve always pronounced we don’t trust in God, we trust in Al Pacino./a”
Jodie Foster
In a 2007 interview, Foster replied to a doubt of either she’s eremite or not by observant “a href=”http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20054140,00.html” target=”_blank”I’m an atheist/a. But we positively adore religions and a rituals. Even nonetheless we don’t trust in God. We applaud flattering many any sacrament in a family with a kids. They adore it, and when they say, ‘Are we Jewish?’ or ‘Are we Catholic?’ we say, ‘Well, I’m not, nonetheless we can select when you’re 18. But isn’t this fun that we do seders and a Advent calendar?’”
Morgan Freeman
In 2012, when asked “a href=”http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/morgan-freeman-inventing-god-aliens-eating-us-and-his-odds-surviving-dark-knight-rises-42886?page=0,1″ target=”_blank”Did we invent God?/a” Freeman replied “Yes.” He afterwards elaborated: “Has anybody ever seen tough evidence? What we get is theories from a progressing prophets. Now, people who consider that God invented us consider that a Earth can’t be some-more than 6,000 years old. So we theory it’s a doubt of belief. My faith complement doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who total us in His/Her/Its image.”
Keira Knightley
“a href=”http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4285973/Atheist-actress-Keira-Knightley-wishes-she-believed-in-God.html” target=”_blank”If usually we wasn’t an atheist, we could get divided with anything/a,” Knightley pronounced in 2012. “You’d usually ask for redemption and afterwards you’d be forgiven.”
Emma Thompson
“a href=”http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/acting-on-outspoken-beliefs/story-e6frg8n6-1111117752031″ target=”_blank”I’m an atheist/a,” Thompson pronounced in 2008. “I think we can call me a arrange of libertarian anarchist. we courtesy sacrament with fear and suspicion. It’s not adequate to contend that we don’t trust in God. we indeed courtesy a complement as distressing: we am annoyed by some of a things pronounced in a Bible and a Koran, and we rebut them.”
Billy Joel
In 2010, a href=”http://www.howardstern.com/howard-on-air/howard-100-101/2010-11-16″ target=”_blank”Joel was a guest on Howard Stern’s radio show/a and when asked if he believes in God, he replied: “No. I’m an atheist.”
James Cameron
In a 2010 book “a href=”http://www.randomhouse.com/book/90876/the-futurist-by-rebecca-keegan” target=”_blank”The Futurist/a,” Cameron calls himself a “a href=”http://books.google.com/books?id=aoiieuxmNdUCpg=PA8lpg=PA8dq=james+cameron+agnosticsource=blots=kGEVvtXavysig=tB1ktQ6UlibIfTeExnEyWyDX_gchl=ensa=Xei=tx7wUcrNDbK44AO95YCYBgved=0CFAQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepageq=james%20cameron%20agnosticf=false” target=”_blank”converted agnostic/a” and says “I’ve sworn off agnosticism, that we now call villainous atheism. I’ve come to a position that in a finish deficiency of any ancillary information whatsoever for a diligence of a particular in some devout form, it is required to work underneath a provisional end that there is no torture and afterwards be prepared to rectify that if we find out otherwise.”
Janeane Garofalo
In 2010, Garofalo a href=”http://nation.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/25/garofalo-bible-work-fiction-child-audience” target=”_blank”compared a Bible to a Bill O’Reilly journal and a children’s book/a authored by former President Bush, saying: “That’s usually 3 works of novella targeted to a child-like audience.”
Kathy Griffin
During her Emmy Award acceptance debate in 2007, Griffin said: “A lot of people come adult here and they appreciate Jesus for this award. we wish we to know that a href=”http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/17/lkl.01.html” target=”_blank”no one had reduction to do with this endowment than Jesus./a He didn’t assistance me a bit. If it was adult to him, Cesar Millan would be adult here with that damn dog. So all we can contend is siphon it Jesus, this prerogative is my God now.”
Hugh Hefner
In 2012, Hefner penned an editorial that pronounced “a href=”http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/sexual-freedom” target=”_blank”when sacrament rather than reason dictates legislation, do not design proof with your law/a,” and: “This is a eremite nation, nonetheless it is also a physical one. For decades a American people have found a approach to change eremite beliefs with physical freedoms. We have enjoyed leisure of sacrament as good as leisure from religion. These need not be incompatible. No one should have to enslave their eremite freedom, and no one should have their personal freedoms infringed. This is America and we contingency strengthen a rights of all Americans.”
Earlier this year, a prestigious a href=”http://freethinker.co.uk/2013/05/23/despicable-little-monster-jessica-ahlquist-wins-prestigious-hugh-hefner-award/” target=”_blank”Hugh Hefner endowment for those who strengthen a First Amendment went to a 16-year-old atheist/a who fought to have a request ensign during her high propagandize removed.
Next: Atheist Billboards
In this Sept. 9, 2010 photo, a billboard erected by atheists in Oklahoma City reads ” Don’t trust in God? Join a club”. Nick Singer, a coordinator of a internal atheists’ organisation called “Coalition of Reason,” recently perceived $5,250 from a inhabitant reflection to make a billboard along Interstate 44 nearby a Oklahoma State Fair. Oklahoma ranks eighth in a republic for commission of residents who self-identify as Christians (85 percent), according to an research of a 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey conducted by a Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life. (Sue Ogrocki, AP)
Atheist billboard on Capital Blvd. in Raleigh, North Carolina, can be seen Mar 29, 2011. (Chris Seward, Raleigh News Observer / MCT)
A billboard sponsored by an non-believer organisation is displayed nearby a opening to a Lincoln Tunnel in North Bergen, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Now, a Catholic League has countered by putting adult a possess billboard nearby one of a tunnel’s New York City entrances. (Seth Wenig, AP)
An unbelieving billboard in Chicago. (a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericingrum/4038228725/” target=”_hplink”Eric Ingrum/a, Flickr)
A billboard sponsored by a Catholic organisation is displayed nearby an exit of a Lincoln Tunnel in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Similarly, a billboard sponsored by an non-believer organisation is displayed nearby a tunnel’s New Jersey entrance. (Seth Wenig, AP)
a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/atheist-slavery-billboard-pennsylvania-raises-tempers_n_1342268.html”From RNS’ Diana Fishlock/a: A billboard erected in one of a Harrisburg, Pa.’s many racially opposite neighborhoods featured an African worker with a biblical quote, “Slaves, conform your masters.” It lasted reduction than a day before someone tore it down.
An non-believer organisation a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/american-atheists-myth-billboard-brooklyn-jewish-rejected_n_1327527.html”was blocked/a from manufacture a billboard in a heavily Jewish area in Brooklyn, New York.
Next: Most And Least Religious Countries
Ghana- 96% religious
Ghanaian principal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson attends a mass during a St Peter’s basilica on Mar 12, 2013 during a Vatican. Cardinals changed into a Vatican currently as a torment mounted forward of a tip pope choosing with no transparent frontrunner to drive a Catholic star by uneasy waters after Benedict XVI’s ancestral resignation.The 115 principal electorate who collect a subsequent personality of 1.2 billion Catholics in a conference in a Sistine Chapel will live inside a Vatican walls totally cut off from a outward star until they have finished their choice.
Nigeria- 93% religious
In this print taken on Thursday, Jul 18, 2013, Hauwa Jubril, a muslim lady lay outward a emporium in Obalende, Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria’s physical and Islamic laws clashed when a senator scandalous for marrying a 14-year-old filibustered a opinion to rectify a structure by insisting that a lady child comes of age when she marries, not during 18. Enraged activists are perfectionist a parliament revisit a vote, seeking how a famous pedophile could get divided with subverting a country’s constitution.
Armenia- 92% religious
This print taken on Jan 5, 2013 shows a male lighting a candle during a Christmas Eve use during a Khor Virab church outward Yerevan. Millions of Armenians will applaud Christmas on Jan 6.
Fiji- 92% religious
Pilgrims from Fiji attend a morning Mass of Pope Benedict XVI during Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Jul 20, 2008. Far fewer people than a likely throng of 500,000 incited out for a final World Youth Day mass led by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, withdrawal one venue roughly dull of worshippers, AFP photographers said.
Macedonia- 90% religious
The boss of Macedonia’parliament Trajko Veljanoski kisses a palm of Pope Francis during a private assembly on May 24, 2013 during a Vatican.
Romania- 89% religious
Visitors light adult candles inside a room ‘The space for Recollection and Prayer’ to commemorate victims of a comrade hang-up in Romania, in Sighetu Marmatiei on Jul 13, 2013. Former dissidents and domestic prisoners collected in Romania on Jul 14, 2013 during a museum commemorating those who suffered abuses underneath communism, set adult 20 years ago during a site of a jail where scores died.
Iraq- 88% religious
Shiite Muslim worshippers light candles outward Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi tabernacle during a annual festival of Shabaniyah, that outlines a anniversary of a birth of a ninth-century Shiite personality famous as a Hidden Imam, in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jun 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
Kenya- 88% religious
Njemps tribemen dance in front of a statue of Buddha during a Gallmann inlet conservancy nearby Kinamba, Laikipia, Northern Kenya on Mar 4, 2012. High Priest Shinso Ito and a organisation of Shinnyo-en priests arrived in Kenya to perform a Buddhist glow and H2O rite for a initial time ever in Africa.The rite was attended by over 300 devout leaders and was streamed live on a internet to millions of viewers and devotees globally. The rite concerned Kenyan genealogical elders and members of a Njemps, Pokot Samburu, Kikuyu and Turkana communites. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza (Photo credit should review CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)
Peru- 86% religious
A true binds an design of a ‘The Lord of Miracles’, worshipped by a infancy of a Catholic Peruvians, during his categorical approach on Oct 18, 2012 in Lima.
Brazil- 85% religious
Catholics hold an idol of a Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ as it is taken along with a World Youth Day (WYD) Cross that in 1984 Pope John Paul II entrusted a girl of a world, opposite Rocinha shantytown in Rio de Janeiro on Jul 18, 2013. The Pope is due in Rio for a Jul 22-28 Catholic WYD, an eventuality approaching to attract dual million people from around a globe.
Ireland- 10% atheist
Roman Catholics listen to Bishop Noel Treanor during mass during St Peter’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday, March, 21, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI has apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland. Extracts from a Popes minute were review during all masses opposite Ireland Sunday, in a rural minute to Irish Catholics, he concurred a clarity of profanation in a Church felt by victims and their families.
Australia- 10% atheist
A Falun Gong Practitioner poses on a 14th anniversary of a commencement of a harm of Falun Gong in China on Jul 21, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. In Jul of 1999, a comrade Chinese supervision outlawed a devout rehearse of Falun Gong, dogmatic it bootleg and ominous adults to practise. Followers trust thousands of practitioners have been killed, detained or put in work camps in China given 1999.
Iceland- 10% atheist
Pope Benedict XVI (R) poses with Iceland boss Olafur Ragnar Grinsson during a private assembly during a Vatican on Mar 4, 2011.
Austria- 10% atheist
The Russian Orthodox cathedral of St. Nicholas is seen on a transparent day in Vienna on Apr 1, 2013.
Netherlands- 14% atheist
Dozens of people reserve in front of a Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on May 1, 2013. A day after a crowning of aristocrat Willem-Alexander a church has non-stop it’s doors for those who wish to see a church in a same environment as during a rite on Apr 30.
Germany- 15% atheist
Eight new priests ready for their ordination during a Freisinger Dom cathedral on Jun 29, 2013 in Freising, Germany. Freising Cathedral, also called Saint Mary and Corbinian Cathedral, is a romanesque basilica in Freising, Bavaria. The Freising Cathedral is also famous for being a place where Pope Benedict XVI was consecrated a priest. Bavaria, Germany’s southern-most state, is heavily Catholic.
South Korea- 15% atheist
Nuns travel on a renouned selling travel in Seoul on Jul 6, 2013. Freedom of sacrament is constitutionally guaranteed in South Korea, that is primarily Buddhist and Christian.
France- 29% atheist
A design taken on Jul 12, 2013 shows a nun walking by a Sacre-Coeur basilica in a Montmartre area of Paris.
Czech Republic- 30% atheist
Tourists suffer a balmy day on Mar 25, 2010 during a normal Eastern marketplace in a Old Town Square in Prague.
Japan- 31% atheist
Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan (R) and Galician informal boss Alberto Nunez Feijoo (L) attend a unison during Cathedral on Jun 15, 2013 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
China- 47% atheist
This print taken on on Jun 27, 2013 shows a muslim Uighur walking by dry streets in Turpan, Xinjiang Province. China’s structure proclaims a country’s dozens of minority groups as constituent and equal tools of a inhabitant tapestry — nonetheless analysts contend a mishandling of such distinctions is a motorist of disturbance in remote Xinjiang. Beijing’s promotion portrays a immeasurable western segment some-more than 4 times a distance of Japan as a agreeable land of colourful, mostly Muslim Uighur locals and industrious migrants successful underneath Communist Party rule.
Next: Top Scientists — Who Believes, Who Doesn’t?
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
“The stupidity of conceiving that this grand and opposite universe, with a unwavering selves, arose by chance, seems to me a arch justification for the existence of God.”
strongClarification/strong: emThe full quote, from a href=”http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-8837″ target=”_hplink”one of Darwin’s letters/a, carries a opposite sentiment.
A immature suitor a href=”http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16949157″ target=”_hplink”asked Darwin about his eremite views/a (the strange exploration is lost), and a good naturalist answered: “It is unfit to answer your doubt briefly; and we am not certain that we could do so, even if we wrote during some length. But we might contend that a stupidity of conceiving that this grand and opposite universe, with a unwavering selves, arose by chance, seems to me a arch justification for a existence of God; nonetheless either this is an justification of genuine value, we have never been means to decide.”/em
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958-
“So you’re finished of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or improved yet, applaud it. After all, what nobler suspicion can one delight than that a star lives within us all?”
–American astrophysicist and scholarship commentator
Stephen Hawking (1942-)
“What we have finished is to uncover that it is probable for a approach a star began to be dynamic by a laws of science. In that case, it would not be required to interest to God to confirm how a star began. This doesn’t infer that there is no God, usually that God is not necessary.”
–English physicist and cosmologist
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
“Science is not usually concordant with spirituality; it is a surpassing source of spirituality. When we commend a place in an enormity of light-years and in a thoroughfare of ages, when we grasp a intricacy, beauty, and refinement of life, afterwards that mountainous feeling, that clarity of exhilaration and piety combined, is certainly spiritual…The idea that scholarship and spirituality are somehow jointly disdainful does a harm to both.”
–American astrophysicist
Francis Collins (1950-)
“Science is…a absolute way, indeed – to investigate a healthy world. Science is not utterly effective…in creation explanation about a abnormal world. Both worlds, for me, are utterly genuine and utterly important. They are investigated in opposite ways. They coexist. They irradiate any other.”
–American physician-geneticist and executive of a National Human Genome Research Institute
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
“Emotionally, we am an atheist. we don’t have a justification to infer that God doesn’t exist, nonetheless we so strongly think he doesn’t that we don’t wish to rubbish my time”
–American biochemist and scholarship novella writer
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