{"id":234352,"date":"2010-01-26T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:40:17","slug":"fsm-protect-us-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234352","title":{"rendered":"FSM protect us! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people say <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\">the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> was a joke made up to satirize creationism and the incursion of fundamentalist religion into politics. Other people <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/category\/pareidolia\/\">seem to see their religious icons everywhere they look<\/a>. Still others <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/19\/if-thy-rifle-scope-offends-thee-pluck-it-out\/\">promote their beliefs through the military<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think these folks ought to get together. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalgraffiti.com\/featured\/who-knew-missile-defense-pretty\/17783\">Or maybe they already did<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalgraffiti.com\/featured\/who-knew-missile-defense-pretty\/17783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/01\/FSM_missiledefense.jpg\" alt=\"FSM_missiledefense\" title=\"FSM_missiledefense\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10388\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>People say there are no atheists in foxholes&#8230; but maybe there <em>is<\/em> a higher authority.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the noodly appendage to Jay Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">Credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:C17-Vortex.JPG\">US Air Force and Tech. Sergeant Russell E. Cooley IV<\/a><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p92yv26j6vuACqOlBp5fbdr4zrw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p92yv26j6vuACqOlBp5fbdr4zrw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p92yv26j6vuACqOlBp5fbdr4zrw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p92yv26j6vuACqOlBp5fbdr4zrw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/lkTwfx9E9IM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/4U6wLgkJRFE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people say the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was a joke made up to satirize creationism and the incursion of fundamentalist religion into politics. Other people seem to see their religious icons everywhere they look. Still others promote their beliefs through the military. I think these folks ought to get together. Or maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}