RE: why don't atheists support scientology?
October 12, 2013 at 7:14 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2013 at 7:15 am by Raven.)
Nora said:
I believe that you have a very good point there. Scientology, for all it's wackiness really isn't any more wack than Xtianity, especially the YEC variety. But in America nobody notices because the vast bulk of us were brought up in some version of Xtianity regardless of where we are now. Nobody even seemed to pay much attention to not one, but three of the Republican wannabe's in the last Presidential election claimed God himself told them to run. (I guess that means he ain't so all-powerful, he backed not one but three losers!) Maybe I'm wrong but somehow I can't see that happening anywhere but here.
I still find myself shaking my head in wonder that it's the 21st century and we still have all these people who buy into the creation myth, talking snakes, the actual existence of angels and demons..... So, yeah, is Hubbard's nonsense really any zanier?
Seems to me sometimes that we have a lot of overgrown kids running around that are only chronologically adults.
Quote:I actually think Scientology is one of the less crazy religions. Most people are just too used to older religions to notice that they're a million times crazier.
I believe that you have a very good point there. Scientology, for all it's wackiness really isn't any more wack than Xtianity, especially the YEC variety. But in America nobody notices because the vast bulk of us were brought up in some version of Xtianity regardless of where we are now. Nobody even seemed to pay much attention to not one, but three of the Republican wannabe's in the last Presidential election claimed God himself told them to run. (I guess that means he ain't so all-powerful, he backed not one but three losers!) Maybe I'm wrong but somehow I can't see that happening anywhere but here.
I still find myself shaking my head in wonder that it's the 21st century and we still have all these people who buy into the creation myth, talking snakes, the actual existence of angels and demons..... So, yeah, is Hubbard's nonsense really any zanier?
Seems to me sometimes that we have a lot of overgrown kids running around that are only chronologically adults.

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― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin