Re: MD quality religion

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 20:13:21 GMT

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    Hi Wim,

    I still think this is begging the question, but I'm just picking nits. I should get a chance next
    weekend to say something.

    Sam

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Wim Nusselder" <wim.nusselder@antenna.nl>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:04 PM
    Subject: Re: MD quality religion

    > Dear Sam and others interested,
    >
    > I'm sorry, but unlike you (12 Mar 2004 10:17:46 -0000) I see even less need
    > than in the (pop)idols-format to make criteria explicit for what constitutes
    > a proper religion. In the 'Idols' TV shows they need to make a pre-selection
    > by a jury of experts who have to agree on the criteria they use to exclude
    > people from the competition, but only because there are thousands of
    > candidates. With less than 10 religions competing (or if we are
    > unrealistically optimistic a few tens), we can easily afford to allow a few
    > related phenomena to compete until the vote in which they don't stand a
    > chance because most people do not recognize them as 'religion'.
    >
    > What we MAY have to very clear about from the beginning, is that it is a
    > competion between (descriptions of) religious PRACTICES, just like 'Idols'
    > is a competion of singers and not of their songs.
    >
    > With friendly greetings,
    >
    > Wim
    >
    >
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