(November 27, 2016 at 3:35 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: The Guy wished to preach high moral standards, he had a "good fight" in mind.
Jesus' standards were a bit too high. He threatened damnation for thoughtcrime and insisted that his followers had to be as perfect as God. It's no wonder that his opinion was that few would be saved and most would be destroyed.
As for Scientology, a good place to start is to Google "Alex Gibney Scientology." I remember reading a lengthy article about his life in/after Scientology which was posted online shortly before the release of his film "Going Clear" but I can't remember which site it was on. It went into a fair bit of detail about how the organization works and what it puts people through in order to keep them in line and how it deals with those who abandon the cult.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
