8 'Pastafarians' Detained in Moscow During Unsanctioned 'Pasta Procession'

[Silent_Bob]

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130817/182823785/8-Pastafarians-Detained-in-Moscow-During-Pasta-Procession.html

MOSCOW, August 17 (RIA Novosti) – A "pasta procession" by the Russian followers of the not-so-serious Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was dispersed in Moscow on Saturday by riot police and Orthodox activists, the prankster movement said.

The Moscow police press service told RIA Novosti that eight "Pastafarians" were detained for "attempting to hold an unsanctioned rally."

The Church, that also calls its flock Pastafarian, was created in 2005 by Bobby Henderson, a self-described "hobo" from Oregon, according to the movement's website.

Pastafarians wear sieves on their heads, worship The Flying Spaghetti Monster and believe that their religion was founded by pirates, their website says. They consider every Friday a religious holiday and do not take themselves seriously, it says.

Russian Pastafarians announced a "pasta procession" in Moscow and St. Petersburg to celebrate the birthday of US actor Robert De Niro who played a character nicknamed "Noodles" in Sergio Leone's 1984 mafia drama Once Upon A Time In America, according to their web-posted statement.

However, Moscow authorities did not sanction the procession which was disrupted by riot police and activists with the God's Will Orthodox group headed by Dmitri Enteo, according to a message by Russian Pastafarians on a social networking website.

God's Will has held numerous rallies against Russian gays and the Pussy Riot punk rock band whose two members were sentenced to two years in jail for hooliganism last August.

"Guys, because of the dispersion by riot police and provocations by Enteo and Co the Ramen [noodles] eating arrangement is canceled," the message said.

"We were detained for simply walking," a message posted by another Pastafarian said. "In particular, I was taken in for a sieve on my head."

[Free libertarian]

Elbow macaroni Pastafarians are so uptight,  now if you go to the Lasagna Pastafarian services ,they are jumping, shouting and rolling in the aisles.   Of course some think the meatless lasagna Pastafarians have taken it too far.

[Russell Kanning]

I guess the Russian government has gone back to Orthodox

[dalebert]

Elbow macaroni Pastafarians are so uptight,  now if you go to the Lasagna Pastafarian services ,they are jumping, shouting and rolling in the aisles.   Of course some think the meatless lasagna Pastafarians have taken it too far.

They really should stage a squabble between the different denominations of Pastafarians. That would be hilarious.

[MaineShark]

Elbow macaroni Pastafarians are so uptight,  now if you go to the Lasagna Pastafarian services ,they are jumping, shouting and rolling in the aisles.   Of course some think the meatless lasagna Pastafarians have taken it too far.

They really should stage a squabble between the different denominations of Pastafarians. That would be hilarious.

All disputes among Pastafarian denominations should be settled by spaghetti-sauce wrestling.  The loser should be stoned with meatballs.

I believe that comically-oversized breadstick jousting might also be in order.

[Russell Kanning]

In Foxe's book of martyrs he describes people who where killed for not bowing to catholic church's parade or when one loon lifted up his dog instead of the 'host' in the communion.

[jerryswife]

I have a book that suggests naked spaghetti parties, basically you lay out plastic sheeting, dump a bunch of spaghetti with sauce in the middle and roll around naked.  Sounds......messy, but could make it as a pastifarian ritual, I suppose.

[Russell Kanning]

less messy than in clothing