On 06 Feb 2013, at 20:11, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2013/2/6 meekerdb <[email protected]>
On 2/6/2013 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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.
I'm curious. How do they get recognized? Do they have to apply,
They have to apply. But contrary to what Bruno claims, sect are not
illegal, some sects can and have been declared illegal (as any group
can be). But for example, scientology is not illegal in Belgium (for
now)
OK. With enough money on the table, anything is legal in Belgium, and
many countries.
but they are often brought to justice by ex-member (for good reason
I think).
Also, I am talking about the legislation I knew about many years ago.
Maybe today they focus only on "sectarian behavior" (which would be
more reasonable).
Bruno
Quentin
or does the government have some standard (numbers?) by which they
automatically get recognized? Do they have to file some statement
of doctrine/theology/dogma with the government so that it can be
determined whether a group is a splinter sect or a different
religion? Is Mormonism recognized?
Brent
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
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