RE: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
April 16, 2015 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 12:14 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(April 13, 2015 at 9:46 pm)Aractus Wrote: Scientology is not really a religion.
Who's to say what is a religion? What distinguishes a "religion" from "a set of batshit crazy ideas that are believed without evidence and against all evidence"?
One man with crazy beliefs is an asylum inmate.
Two people with crazy beliefs are a cult.
Three people with crazy beliefs are a respected religion.
To me, this documentary underscores the problem of offering tax exempt status to "religions". The government then becomes involved in deciding arbitrarily what qualifies and what does not.
(April 16, 2015 at 12:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Why not both? I don't see where those are mutually exclusive.
To paraphrase the ancient Greek observation: Crazy people think their religion is true. Con artists think their religion is useful. There is a difference, however academic it may be.
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