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You're missing a huge chunk of information here. They are not a Religion. Their official paperwork says they are a Belief Community or something like that. As such their beliefs and membership to this "religion" does not protect them from being prosecuted for infringement.

In fact, the whole idea seems like a joke. If they actually are trying to get immunity for copyright infringement they aren't doing a good job. If this is some kind of social commentary or satire it still isn't very interesting.



Do you actually imagine that founding a new religion and being recognized as such would be easy...? It's one thing to say that this isn't their goal or that they aren't done yet. It's quite another to trash them for not achieving outlandish milestones.


You also missed the point. What I said had nothing to do with it being easy. I was just clarifying that because of their official status they don't have any exemptions. Im not trashing them for not achieving anything. If I were to trash them I'd trash them for trying to achieve some political goal by founding some bullshit religion. Rights are important all but founding a religion in protest is frivolous. The political party is one thing but a religion? Really?




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