Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Good :D

It was ridiculous that it was a issue anyway.

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Indeed it is :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoeAA...eature=related

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Pleased to hear it..time for some common sense.Well until the next time anyway.:)

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

To tie it back the earlier post about CoL plod:

So, the police said they asked the prosecutors if it was insulting and they said yes, the prosecutors are now saying the police asked them and they said no. Hmm. The strong hint is given there that the CPS weren't awfully impressed with the boys in blue - 'reflect this advice', indeed.

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

So bottom line it's not offensive to use the word cult about any religion or err cough quasi religious organisation.


Well until the next time.I wonder what will be thrown up by this particular bill in the future?

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Talking of religions and cults, it seems to me one arm of the Catholic church is sailing very close to being a cult, Opus Die.
Reading up on this organisation I was surprised to find it was only founded in 1928, anyway an organization that encourages self harm upon a person, for their sins, by way of a cilice, a spiked chain worn around the thigh, is not all there in my opinion. Makes me wonder what sort of punishment they will inflict on Ruth Kelly for being part of a government that introduced the "Human Embryology bill"

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

There are some (myself included) who consider Catholicism in its entirety to be a cult.

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Oh no I can see where this thread is going now.:(

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Not where you think! :D

Although I'm sure it will when the next such thread pops up.

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Just for you Russ.:)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/22...l#post34558618

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

So the oldest branch of Christianity which has one-sixth of the world's population as members (and there are more Catholics than all the other branches of Christianity combined) is considered a cult?
Source

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

i think its a very strange branch of christianity.. they've got some rum ideas

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Is there a branch of Christianity that doesn't have some rum ideas, though? The 6000 year old earth is a pretty rum one, but not as rum as the idea that something written down 2000 years ago should trump the evidence of your own eyes without further discussion. That's a rum idea common to the whole damn boiling.

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Oh dear.....here we go..hold on to your hats...:erm:

Re: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
 

Looking at BBKs statement logically and dispassionately, how can any intelligent person honestly disagree? Without going into the whole is there isn't there a god thing, this is what I truly have a problem with, as written above a text written down 2000 years ago by people who certainly had an agenda which wasn't solely about "spreading the word". None of us believe in the Greek gods anymore, its patently absurd, so why should any of the three main Abrahamic faiths be any different?