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The Flying Spaghetti Monster Lands on the Netherlands
Can the Government Define a Religion as Fake?
By Spela Krajnc, Tommaso Lecca, Petra Ondrisakova, Anna Severinenko
The Dutch secularism has been challenged since the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster engaged a legal battle to be recognized as a religion. What might seem to be a complete nonsense for outsiders is actually a fight for a religious freedom and equality in the Dutch society. Many of the 12 000 members of the church registered in the Netherlands are meeting obstacles when wearing their religious headgear, a spaghetti strainer, in ID photos. Continue reading “The Flying Spaghetti Monster Lands on the Netherlands”
Tommaso Lecca 