This is funny

[B. Max]

The Texas Constitution

Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS

Section 4 - RELIGIOUS TESTS

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/sec...100-000400.html

[I Miss Trudeau]

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being. 

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/sec...100-000400.html

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Atheists and women need not apply.

[August1991]

Is belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster acceptable?

[I Miss Trudeau]

Is belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster acceptable?

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The graph is absolutely priceless.

[B. Max]

Is belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster acceptable?

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I would think not. It looks like something that you would expect to find at the UN.

[PocketRocket]

Heaven is depicted as having a stripper factory and a beer volcano.

Where do I sign up???

Oh well.....I'm off to work.

May your day be blessed with the touch of His noodly appendage.

Ramen.

[PocketRocket]

Upon thinking this over more fully, there may be something to this Spaghetti God.

Follow me on this....

Many philosophers have postulated that Man created God in his own image, rather than vice-versa.

Ever notice how every ethnic group's God kinda looks like them???

Jesus is depicted as being white-skinned, even though he was born and raised in a tropical desert area where, logically, everyone would have darker flesh-tones.

Mohammed is darker-skinned.

Buddha unmistakably oriental.

Thor was depicted as a Blond-haired warrior, much like any Viking, as were most of his Asgardian compatriots.

Likewise Shiva and other Indian deities all had oriental characteristics.

Etc etc etc.

Now, if we create our gods by our thoughts, then perhaps the growing collective belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster will (has already???) bring him/her/it into being.

Now this may seem far-fetched, but that's only because it is.

I'll take my supreme being al-dente please

[theloniusfleabag]

Dear PocketRocket,

Buddha unmistakably oriental.

He was made that way, much as Jesus 'got whiter'. Buddha was Indian, but his teachings spread to the orient.