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For Pastafarian readers (and presumably also the \u201ctouched by his noodly appendage but not religious\u201d) this may be of interest. An official call has been issued<\/a> for the composition of scriptures about Flying Spaghetti Monster, for the second edition of The Loose Canon.<\/p>\n

Click through to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster blog<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

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