Scientology to be Criminally Charged in Belgium

AcidHell2 said:
That's not conditioning. Everyone pretty much always follows in there parents footsteps.
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Because they are indoctrinated into the religion at an early age and taught that it is the right way of doing things. If there was no conditioning and no indoctrination then you would let the child learn about lots of religions and then make an informed choice when they are old enough. This isn't what happens. Generally Catholics bring up little Catholics, Muslims bring up little Muslims, Methodists bring up little Methodists. All of them passing on their own indoctrination to their offspring.

The same thing tends to happen in the country to a lesser extent with political views too, I know a couple of friends whose answer to "Why do you vote Labour?" was "Because my parents vote Labour" with no real thought behind it.
 
RDM said:
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and chavs bring up chavs, good parents bring up good kids, theifs bring up theifs. It's not conditioning it's just how things are. Pretty much everyone is similar to there parents until late teens. Then life experience starts to take over and they make there own choices.
 
Deadly Ferret said:
KPeh, two simple points to address your post.

Crime is a word often misused. To take your example of the stolen sandwich, many people would inaccurately describe that situation as a crime rather than an offence.
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Your view is that 'all crimes are morally wrong - otherwise they are merely offences'? I will not reiterate the problems with morals and the law, since you chose not to address that first time. May I instead suggest you are drawing an artifical distinction between an offence and a crime? I can accept the two words mean slightly different things in common usage; that a crime is a more severe word than offence; I just cannot accept that all crimes are immoral. Some are yes; not all. If the law views the theft of a sandwich as an offence, the dictionary views "any offense" as a crime, and by your own admission the ordinary person would view it as a crime; then it is indeed a crime, and almost universally agreed on as morally sound one. Furthermore this statutory difference you refer to is not something that I've seen; infact rape is refered to as an 'offence' in the Sexual Offences Act 2003; the word crime is no longer used. Are you the only person who makes and agrees on this definition of crime?

The 13th Century was a reference to Aquinas and Natural law, not some off the cuff etymic statement. I'm not keen on hypocrisy either :p.
 
Samione said:
Are you suggesting that it's unfeesable for Lord Xenu of the galactic confederacy to have bought billions of people to earth in spaceships and blown them up? :eek: Shocking.
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Obviously it is, because the Flying Spaghetti Monster wouldn't have let him.
 
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