Thursday, July 03, 2008
In defence of Captain Cosmos, by Richard Martineau
On 24 June, while Quebecers where shitting on everyone, saying they were a people of giants, a delegation of raëlians from France, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec filed a complaint to the United Nations for discrimination.
According to them, the followers of Raël are victims of harassment. Because they believe in the small ARTEMIS green, they lose their jobs, are removed custody of their children, are watering insults, and so on.
Cult and Religion
You could say that it is well done: after all, raëliens form a sect, and sects are dangerous.
But we do the devil's advocate for a moment.
Yes, the theory put forward by the former sports journalist Claude Vorilhon (namely, that man was created in laboratories by extraterrestrials) is completely crazy.
But what about Islam, Buddhism, Judaism or Catholicism?
The reincarnation does it make more sense? The resurrection of Jesus? The Immaculate Conception? The appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad? While it has a scientific basis? All that must be taken seriously?
As already said the philosopher Ernest Renan, which has attracted the wrath of the Catholic Church by daring to say that the Bible should be subject to peer review as any other historic document: "A religion, c It is a sect that has been successful. "
Raël to school
We tend to forget, but its beginnings, Christianity was considered a heresy.
Where to stop the sect and where religion? If one allows a Muslim teacher from wearing headscarves at school, why Raëlien a teacher could not wear his medallion in class?
For many people (including myself), Scientology is a huge scam. Yet this cult founded by an author of science fiction has been officially recognized as a religion in Sweden, Portugal and Venezuela, and "Scientologists officers" have the right to perform marriages in several countries.
And when Russia refused to recognize the Church of Scientology, the European Court of Human Rights has vindicated the Scientologists, on the pretext that in Europe, freedom of religion is protected!
Where are the limits
That is the dilemma surrounding the sacrosanct freedom of religion. How far can we push this concept? What constitutes a religion?
The Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a sect or a religion? Followers of voodoo? The members of Falun Gong?
I have already visited Ufoland, (deceased) a cheap amusement park of Raël. I have rarely seen a place as ridiculous and pathetic.
However, between extraterrestrials cardboard paste-hosting tourists Ufoland and crutches that line the walls of the Oratory (not to mention the heart of brother Andrew who patauge somewhere in a jar), I do not know what which is the most bizarre ...
The color of your aura
Recently, a follower of Buddhism told me that if my son four months is so serene, it has "an old soul who has often been reincarnated" ...
Between that and have someone tell me that my son will be mauve, what is the difference?
However, Buddhism is a religion recognized.
You understand something?
Labels: Religion and fanaticism, Richard Martineau
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