To: wardaddy
aryan brotherhood is a prison gang...hardly a religion. So does the state have to approve a religion in order for it to be a religion? Their parishioners believe they are a religion - who am I (or the state) to tell them they're not?
many of the others are actually sects
So? There are lots of sects that fall within the general rubric of 'Christianity'.
495 posted on
08/22/2003 6:52:58 PM PDT by
strela
("Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures." Horatio Hornblower)
To: strela
I know ABs, they are not a religion. They don't really worship anything but power and self preservation in prison. They might on occasion ask a Christian Identity adherent for mythical advice.
I doubt many know what a Strong's Concordance is...lol
by your definition and the rest of the secularists, anything is a religion.
A sect is not a religion. It's a sect.
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