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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 06/28/2007 : 10:04:42 [Permalink]
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| Listen, as far as Im concerned you can drop the whole lot of em in Xenu's volcano, for the crime of bastardizing the word 'science'. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 06/28/2007 : 10:13:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by Gorgo
How do they define cult, and what about that cult makes them more dangerous than any other cult?
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Could it be because of documented cases of extorsion and other illegal activities they have been engaged in?
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Well, they can ban all American citizens and most Christians. |
I know the rent is in arrears
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 06/28/2007 : 11:25:56 [Permalink]
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Scientologists are scumbags. End of story.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 05:30:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Scientologists are scumbags. End of story.
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Well, sure. Quite different from the history of the Catholic Church. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 06/29/2007 : 06:29:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
Originally posted by filthy
Scientologists are scumbags. End of story.
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Well, sure. Quite different from the history of the Catholic Church.
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Not at all. Read the history of the Protestants as well, or any of the major, religious cults. They're all pretty much the same. Scientology could be any of them in microcosm, except they're a lot more blatent in their thievery and quicker to retaliate if they feel slighted. Did you open the link I provided? It's all pretty well documented.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 14:19:22 [Permalink]
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Well, Scientology is indeed "special," in that it is primarily a criminal organization. Certainly, much of what Scientology does is done by other religions as well, but there is a certain kind of vicious intensity to how Scientology does it.
In the US, we have a long and hoary tradition that if people get together and found a church, they get tax breaks and a whole lot of assorted legal and cultural slack. Wanna fleece your sheep? S'alright! Set up schools that teach anti-science? S'okay! Establish "charititable" organizations that discriminate racially and/or religiously? Good for you, here's some tax bucks to help! Need to burglarize some FBI offices to get some dangerous documents? Help yourself! (No, wait. "Operation Snow White" was a wee bit extreme, but the Church of Scientology was allowed to keep its tax-exempt status.)
Germany doesn't have that tradition. I can't see how banning known Scientologists from their military bases is any kind of religious persecution. (Though it certainly might be dumb.)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 15:42:42 [Permalink]
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| They're all pretty much the same. |
That was my point. The fact that Scientology is newer and seems more currently blatant, may be a good point, but they can't be worse than the Catholic Church. |
I know the rent is in arrears
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Robert Hunter
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/29/2007 : 15:51:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
| They're all pretty much the same. |
That was my point. The fact that Scientology is newer and seems more currently blatant, may be a good point, but they can't be worse than the Catholic Church.
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Give 'em time, Gorgo, give 'em time. After all, the Catholics, et al., have a 2,000 year head start. I'd like to see the sorry bastards brought to a dead stop before they can start catching up.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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