Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

En réponse à And Rosta <a.rosta@...>:

>
> My mother stood for parliament in the last general election as a
> candidate for the Natural Law Party. IIRC, she got less than 1% of
> the votes in her constituency, but at any rate, she certainly isn't
> dangerous; she is wholly safe & presents no risk to society.
>
Well, sorry, no offence intended. Still, Natural Law presents a risk, not to
society, but to its own members. It is well known in France (quite a lot of
testimonies of former members already) and that's why the movement is registered
as a sect. Still, as long as it's not caught doing illegal things, you cannot do
anything. So we leave it as it is, but this movement is well looked after. After
all, even the Order of the Solar Temple looked harmless at first...

Still, it means nothing as for your mother. My parents' neighbours are Jehovah's
Witnesses, and yet they are far from the fanatics people seem to visualise when
you talk about sects. In fact, they don't even follow all the precepts of the
sect (for instance, once the woman told me that if her son ever needed a blood
transfusion, there would be no reason why she would forbid it, even if
officially their Church forbids that). Still, I consider those people as
exceptions, and as a whole the Jehovah's Witnesses is quite a dangerous
movement. But hey, I consider the Catholic Church to be a dangerous movement too
(and by that I don't talk about the Catholic people themselves but about the
Big Bosses).