I am also reminded of an interview with Seth Rogen where he describes a conversation with Tom Cruise and how Cruise brushes off criticisms about him with a claim that it is all propaganda by pharmaceutical companies because he helped so many people to heal by using Scientology. So this guy imagines himself at war with pharmaceutical science and his movie(s) are making billions.
https://youtu.be/E7wLoYp40cI
But I guess Tom Cruise is an anomaly and he became super famous before people were aware of what Scientology is. It seems that someone like that could not reach that kind of favorability in society because Scientology would be counterproductive to him. People are more aware, but they like Cruise for old times.
https://youtu.be/E7wLoYp40cI
But I guess Tom Cruise is an anomaly and he became super famous before people were aware of what Scientology is. It seems that someone like that could not reach that kind of favorability in society because Scientology would be counterproductive to him. People are more aware, but they like Cruise for old times.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
