File sharers try to form file sharing religion in Sweden

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Zlejedi said:

manuel said:

Zlejedi said:

Vetteman94 said:

Mr Khan said:

Vetteman94 said:

Xen said:
What is the point of this? Blaming religious persecution if you're arrested for piracy?

Thats what it sounds like yes.  I dont know how they thought they could get a religion formally accepted by the government where the base practice is an illegal act.  

Not the stupidest idea in the world. I mean Catholic minors are allowed to imbibe alcohol for ritualistic purposes and the scientologists are allowed to bilk followers out of millions of dollars in what would otherwise be deemed quack psychiatry, certainly there's basis for this

Though the government being in big multimedia's pocked on matters of copyright means this would never really gain ground

Well Scientology is a cult, and anyone dumb enough to follow it deserves to be taken to the bank,  plus thats not really illegal.  And I didnt think that minors were allowed to imbibe alcohol,  I thought you had to be an adult for any ritual that involves alcohol.  But Im not Catholic, so i wouldnt kow for sure.   

I don't know what he is taking about - Roman catholics don't have any rituals that include drinking alcochol for minors (and actually i haven't seen any for adults too apart from priest himself who does the wine-blood ritual).

Maybe orthodox church (very unlikely) or protestants ?

I'm a Roman Catholic and for 1 ritual (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Communion) we actually got to drink alcohol when we were about 10-12 years old (don't remember exactly). It's only one little sip, so it's not a big deal. Most of us didn't even like the taste.

Must be varied depending on country. In Poland you get First Communion only with bread not in dual form.

Here in Italy normally just the priest drinks wine at Communion, even during First Communions, but in some churches wine is given to everybody taking Communion. Wine for Communion is very light, anyway, and only a very little sip is given, at 5% alcohol content it should be ~250mg of alcohol for a ~5ml sip, not enough to give even a 0.01% BAC, the minimum to give effects to the most sensitive people. It must also be said that here, before serious problems of alcoholism started becoming widespread even amongst teenagers, a little sip of sweet, light wine was rarely allowed also to minors, for example for Xmas or New Year's Eve and not considered harmful.