On 06 Feb 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/5/2013 11:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:14:07 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unpopular religions are denounced as cults.
A religion is just a cult with good PR.
It's interesting. I would be curious to know whether every
established religion intentionally sought legitimacy at some point,
What would that mean? Legal? Where there is official government
recognition of religion (and probably tax breaks) the answer would
be that they sought the recognition. And all that you can consider
'established' have sought adherents. But "legitimacy"?? I'm not
sure how that world can be attached to "religion".
In my country, that is the case. Religions have to be recognized by
the government. If not they are classified as sect, and are forbidden
(like scientology). It is awkward and arbitrary, but that's simply the
case. The result is that sect become secret societies, so it is even
harder to get rid of them, or for adherent to ever been able to get
out of the influence. It is a real social dramatic problem. Then
corruption makes also some sect still developing, like notably
scientology.
Bruno
Brent
or if it's more of an inevitable consequence of surviving long
enough to seem ancient. Are their ancient cults (other than those
intentionally shrouded in secrecy)?
Craig
John K Clark
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
send an email to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to everything-
[email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en
.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6070 - Release Date:
01/31/13
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
send an email to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en
.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
