---Somebody has to make a judgement, might as well be the courts. Analogous situation with the Fundie attempt to disguise Creationism as science. Courts decided.
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <yifuxero@> wrote: > > > > from the behind-the-TM-facade website: basicall, > > if it walks and talks like a duck.... > <snip> > > Transcendental Meditation was ruled a religion by > > the United States District Court, District of New > > Jersey > > No, it wasn't: > > > "1. That the Science of Creative Intelligence/ > > Transcendental Meditation and the teaching thereof, > > the concepts of the field of pure creative > > intelligence, creative intelligence and bliss > > consciousness, the textbook entitled Science of > > Creative Intelligence for Secondary Education--First > > Year Course--Dawn of the First Year of the Age of > > Enlightenment, and the puja ceremony, are all > > RELIGIOUS IN NATURE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE > > ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT of the > > United States Constitution, and the teaching thereof > > in the New Jersey public schools is therefore > > unconstitutional" (emphasis added). > > A court can't rule that a teaching is "a religion" > in some universal sense, as if it had authorization > from God, or as if religion was a clearly definable > thing like a can of Coke. Courts can rule only that > a teaching is religious in nature in a specific legal > context, according to certain previously established > criteria. > > If it walks and talks like a duck, then the U.S. > government has to consider it a duck *even if it > isn't really a duck*. >
