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Originally Posted by punky
The police have taken action here (following complaints which is unsuprising as it was in front of a CoS building), not the government. However Chakrabarti switches from the police to the government "They will be banning words like 'war' and 'tax'" which is solely a political matter. The government passed laws against religious hatred (along with race, etc) some time ago, not the 10th May.
Secondly whilst her trademark bitter sarcasm which seems to do her well, she's also using her argument "reducto ad absurdiam" (or thereabouts, been ages since I did latin). Trying to extrapolate calling a religion a "dangerous cult" to outlawing all mentioning of war or tax in protests is, putting it kindly, absurd. That's not really how an experienced spokeswoman for a leading human rights organisation should be putting her arguments across.
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I suggest you read up on Scientology. If it is unfair to call it a cult, the word should be retired from the language.
Just because something calls itself a religion doesn't make it so.
This of course is not a real argument, but you remember that Simpsons episode where they join that cult to worship the "leader" that was based on scientology.