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Friday, May 23, 2008

Occult Reasoning

The Crown Prosecution Service, whose staff presumably have not been wined and dined by the Church of Scientology, has ruled that the teenager who called the Congregation of Hubbard a cult will not face legal action. Apparently it is neither abusive nor insulting under the law to wave a placard stating that a particular faith is "not a religion [but] a dangerous cult". The CPS decided that "there is no offensiveness, as opposed to criticism" in the statement, which appears to imply that the CPS, rather than the Church of Scientology, is qualified to state whether the cultists are offended. Doubtless this is the product of the quintessential New Labour belief that one can legislate for feelings: a natural consequence of the Vicar of Downing Street's evangelical fervour, and an interesting parallel to the common idea among religious cults that one can believe by the numbers.

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