Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult' - Page 5

downquark1 · 23-05-2008, 14:01

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Originally Posted by Russ B

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7416425.stm

It's a non-story now anyway.

Good

It was ridiculous that it was a issue anyway.

TheDaddy · 23-05-2008, 15:13

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Originally Posted by Matt D

South Park covered Scientology quite well, nice explanation of Xenu, alien souls, volcanoes, etc.

The clip is probably still on YouTube...

Indeed it is

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

**Maggy** · 23-05-2008, 15:35

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Originally Posted by Russ B

Any chance we can keep this on-topic?

---------- Post added at 13:02 ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 ----------

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7416425.stm

It's a non-story now anyway.

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

BBKing · 23-05-2008, 19:43

To tie it back the earlier post about CoL plod:

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A spokeswoman for the force said: "The CPS review of the case includes advice on what action or behaviour at a demonstration might be considered to be threatening, abusive or insulting.

"The force's policing of future demonstrations will reflect this advice."

A CPS spokesman said: "In consultation with the City of London police, we were asked whether the sign, which read 'Scientology is not a religion it is a dangerous cult', was abusive or insulting.

"Our advice is that it is not abusive or insulting and there is no offensiveness, as opposed to criticism, neither in the idea expressed nor in the mode of expression. No action will be taken against the individual."

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.

**Maggy** · 23-05-2008, 19:55

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?

frogstamper · 23-05-2008, 20:19

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"

Russ · 23-05-2008, 20:31

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

**Maggy** · 23-05-2008, 20:37

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Originally Posted by Russ B

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

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

Russ · 23-05-2008, 20:42

Not where you think!

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

frogstamper · 23-05-2008, 20:57

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Originally Posted by Russ B

Not where you think!

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

Just for you Russ.

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

**Hugh** · 24-05-2008, 13:30

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Originally Posted by Russ B

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

papa smurf · 24-05-2008, 13:56

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Originally Posted by Russ B

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

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

BBKing · 24-05-2008, 18:48

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.

**Maggy** · 24-05-2008, 20:46

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Originally Posted by BBKing

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.

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

frogstamper · 24-05-2008, 20:56

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Originally Posted by BBKing

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.

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?