It's no more ridiculous that Wicca or Islam or Christianity. Why does everyone make such a big deal out of this particular religion?
What's the big deal about Scientology?
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because people are less inclined to believe in aliens as opposed to an omnipresent, omnipotent ultimate being that created life and the universe without a physical manifestation.
re·li·gion Audio pronunciation of "religion" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-ljn)
n.
1.
1. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
2. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader. (Martin Luther King Jr., anyone?)
4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion. (sports or hobbies, anyone?)
Idiom:
get religion Informal
1. To become religious or devout.
2. To resolve to end one's immoral behavior
5 entries found for cult.
cult Audio pronunciation of "cult" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (klt)
n.
1.
1. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
2. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5.
1. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
2. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
Kidnapping, brainwashing, people dying mysteriously in their "care". I don't think I've heard of mainstream religion doing anything like that since the Inquisition.
While I agree, most religions have some idiosyncrasies that float to the surface. Most have a fairly positive message. Should I offer a piece from Mister Hubbards writtings that show what to do when someone talks poorly about Scientology?
Oh hell why not...
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While I agree, most religions have some idiosyncrasies that float to the surface. Most have a fairly positive message. Should I offer a piece from Mister Hubbards writtings that show what to do when someone talks poorly about Scientology?
Oh hell why not...
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because Jesus is a much more acceptable name than L. Ron.
lots of religions are goofy. but scientology is about the most screwy. seriously retarded. if you pay enough you can become an operative thetan and use mind control. what religion has some sh!t like that? and makes you pay for it?
lots of religions are goofy. but scientology is about the most screwy. seriously retarded. if you pay enough you can become an operative thetan and use mind control. what religion has some sh!t like that? and makes you pay for it?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Did you do any research at all about this?
Read this and then give us your comments please:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuleaf.htm
I'm going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Right, then I'll begin.
Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.
Xenu the alien ruler Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.
Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).
These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.
The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.
That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.
Well what did you think of that story?
What? You thought it was a stupid story?
Well so do we. However, this story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).
Note that this story is taken from Hubbard's own handwriting, which has been scanned and is on the linked page. More is available elsewhere on the net.
Your statement is ridiculous, you obviously have no knowledge of the subject or are just trying to rile people up.
What is so ridiculous about my statement? Scientologists hate phychiatrists? So, Christians hate gays.
Scientologists require you to pay to be a part of thier religion? Many Christian sects require you to tithe.
Scientologists beleive in aliens? Christians beleive in ghosts and evil spirits.
Scientologists sue people who badmouth thier religion? Christians blow each other up with car bombs because they can't find an agreement between Catholics and Protestants.
How is scientology so much worse exactly?
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