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17. The church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is standing ready

Rick Wingrove took this photo in front of a display on the Loudoun County Virginia Court House lawn in Leesburg, Va. (Courtesy: Rick Wingrove)

A number of tongue-in-cheek nativity displays on a Virginia county courthouse lawn has divided the tight-knit community Leesburg right before the holidays and created an unusual scene.

Beside a Christmas tree and creche sits a large banner with a nativity scene in which baby Jesus has been replaced by a plate of spaghetti with googly eyes. A crowd that includes pirates and gnomes surrounds Jesus. At the bottom its message reads “Touched by an Angelhair.” The scene is the work of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monsters.

“People are just horrified by this. It’s just created a lot of division, a lot of angst and a lot of people are upset,” Kenneth Reid, Loudoun County supervisor-elect for the Leesburg district, told ABCNews.com.Reid has been vehemently fighting the atheist groups that are behind the decorations and says the displays are destroying people’s holiday spirit.