BLINDED me avec SCIEN-tology: French say "Fraud!"

[laarree]

davester wrote:
So, where is the dividing line between cult/sect and religion exactly?....

Here is a good page on that: http://www.rickross.com/faq.html

[laarree]

bazookaman wrote:
[quote=laarree]
The United States just wouldn't be the United States without its dizzying variety of absurd and bizarre belief systems, sects and subcultures, from the most popular ones to the most obscure.

Oh! Those noodly appendages! :hail:

[sekker]

*WARNING: The following rant may be considered political. Avert your eyes if you are potentially offended by sarcasm!*

First, Baby Einstein videos are actually harmful - and now this!

Freedom, I say, freedom is the answer! No government rules! Let the market decide everything!

(My European friends just shake their heads at American stupidity...).

[MacArtist]

Didn't Scientology start from a bar room bet? Now that's a deep rooted religion.

L. Ron subscribed to the thinking as PT Barnum.

[davester]

MacArtist wrote:
L. Ron subscribed to the thinking as PT Barnum.

I'd argue that many of the world's religions started that way.