{"id":3218,"date":"2013-08-22T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T06:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:29:41","slug":"world-esp-russia-when-will-this-stupidity-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/08\/22\/world-esp-russia-when-will-this-stupidity-end\/","title":{"rendered":"World (esp Russia), when will this stupidity end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T High Wycombe Skeptics in the Pub. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/2013\/08\/19\/first-they-began-gunning-for-the-gays-now-religious-russian-zealots-are-attacking-pastafarians\/\">Freethinker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/2013\/08\/19\/first-they-began-gunning-for-the-gays-now-religious-russian-zealots-are-attacking-pastafarians\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">First they began gunning for The Gays, now religious Russian zealots are attacking \u2026 Pastafarians<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A PARADE of Pastafarians in Moscow at the weekend was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/08\/18\/russian-riot-police-detain-eight-pastafarians-during-pasta-procession-in-moscow\/\">violently broken up by police assisted by \u00a0Russian Orthodox religious activists.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moscow police told\u00a0<em>RIA Novosti<\/em>\u00a0that eight Pastafarians were detained for \u201cattempting to hold an unsanctioned rally\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster planned to hold a \u201cpasta procession\u201d in Moscow and St Petersburg to honour the birthday of Robert De Niro, who once played a character named Noodle in the movie<em>Once Upon A Time in America<\/em>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Click on pic for video\" src=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/images\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Grab2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpasta procession\u201d in Moscow was disrupted by the Orthodox activist group Bozhaya Volya, or God\u2019s Will, who sprayed ketchup on the march\u2019s participants. The Orthodox group has held demonstrations against homosexuality, the punk rock group Pussy Riot, and the Darwin Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow police dispersed the marchers, claiming the procession was not sanctioned by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>One Pastafarian wrote on a social networking website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We were detained for simply walking. In particular, I was taken in for [having] a sieve on my head.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster came into being thanks to a sarcastic letter Bobby Henderson sent to the Kansas Board of Education over the teaching of Intelligent Design in 2005. Pastafarians believe the theory of gravity is a hoax. Things stay on the ground rather than float away because the invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster holds them down with his noodly appendages.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Russia enacted a law that makes \u201cinsulting the religious sensitivities of believers\u201d a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T High Wycombe Skeptics in the Pub. From the Freethinker: &nbsp; First they began gunning for The Gays, now religious&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[900,101,901],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-and-society","tag-religious-extremism","tag-russia","tag-russian-orthodox-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}