Colander Hats on IDs: Legitimate Religious Statement or Atheists Acting Childish?

[Apex]

There has been a growing trend among certain atheists to fight for the right to wear colanders on their heads when having their photo taken for government issued IDs. It is meant to be a political statement against the allowance of religious head gear. What are everyone's thoughts on this? Is it a legitimate statement? Should religious believers not be allowed to have any religious headgear, what so ever, in government issued IDs? Or is it a childish act that does more to harm the already very poor view that people have of atheists?

New Zealand Pastafarian Wears Colander in Driver’s License Picture, Much to the Delight of Everyone

Another Pastafarian Gets His Drivers License with a Colander on His Head

 

[CynthiaCypher]

If I were an atheist I would feel really embarrassed by this ridiculousness. I can't wait to see how they are going to rationalize it. Because guess what? It is not rational.

 

[Thana]

The concessions made to religious people is apparently why he is doing this.

Really, though? Hats. They're just hats that mean something important to that person, And he goes out of his way to mock them?

“ I am simply claiming the same privileges awarded to those who claim to believe in a magic man in the sky. They can wear religious headwear.“

A magic man in the sky, Now he's openly mocking religious people. Definitely childish.
Maybe if I felt he was genuine....

 

[Nakosis]

If I were an atheist I would feel really embarrassed by this ridiculousness. I can't wait to see how they are going to rationalize it. Because guess what? It is not rational.

Mocking the beliefs of others. You'd think they'd have more important issue to deal with. But then maybe some think there is nothing more important then being hostile towards religious belief.

 

[LuisDantas]

Is it a legitimate statement?

Definitely. It points out how arbitrary religious exceptions are, and how necessary it is to question their need and validity.

Should religious believers not be allowed to have any religious headgear, what so ever, in government issued IDs?

They certainly should. As much as anyone else, not any more or any less.

Or is it a childish act that does more to harm the already very poor view that people have of atheists?

Atheist haters will always find some excuse, Apex. You know that. There is no helping that, so we may as well give them the excuses that fulfill an useful purpose.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Is it just me or am I detecting a neckbeard on the guy in the ID?

 

[Sir Doom]

Wouldn't wearing a colander on his head support the right to wear headgear in a photo as opposed to protesting it? Not sure why he thought this was a good way to make his point.

 

[LuisDantas]

Wouldn't wearing a colander on his head support the right to wear headgear in a photo as opposed to protesting it?

It may be seen that way, certainly. What is being challenged is not the right to wear headgear, but rather the selective right given by religious discrimination.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

It may be seen that way, certainly. What is being challenged is not the right to wear headgear, but rather the selective right given by religious discrimination.

I don't think it is going to work. It's just going to make those people look foolish.

 

[xkatz]

I thought the official headgear for atheists according to their prophet Richard Dawkins was the fedora...?

 

[LuisDantas]

I don't think it is going to work. It's just going to make those people look foolish.

I don't think you understood the goal then. It has already worked.

 

[LuisDantas]

I thought the official headgear for atheists according to their prophet Richard Dawkins was the fedora...?

There was a schism. Didn't you get the memo?

 

[Sir Doom]

It may be seen that way, certainly. What is being challenged is not the right to wear headgear, but rather the selective right given by religious discrimination.

He seems to have successfully taken the photo.

 

[LuisDantas]

He seems to have successfully taken the photo.

Indeed. And that is a very good thing, too. Among other consequences, it helps in warding the dangers of having established faiths repress the rights of religious minorities and new movements.

 

[Sir Doom]

Indeed. And that is a very good thing, too.

Seems more like a 'same old thing' to me. That's what I'm getting at. He isn't wearing religious headgear. So where's the discrimination he is supposedly protesting?

 

[1137]

People should be able to wear any headgear they want so long as you can identify them. Some individuals are better left ignored.

 

[outhouse]

I would not wear anything in support nor against.

I dont have the knowledge of what and why, to really call it childish or not.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I don't think you understood the goal then. It has already worked.

Wearing a kippah or a turban in an ID photo does not look foolish. A person wearing a colander does.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I thought the official headgear for atheists according to their prophet Richard Dawkins was the fedora...?

It goes better with their neckbeards if you ask me.

 

[LuisDantas]

Seems more like a 'same old thing' to me. That's what I'm getting at. He isn't wearing religious headgear. So where's the discrimination he is supposedly protesting?

I guess a theist doesn't notice it quite as easily.