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RE: Damned Scientologists
January 28, 2021 at 6:37 pm
(October 12, 2020 at 6:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: According to this documentary, Scientologists are trying to play Hannibal Lecter, in that if you criticize them in public they send people who then talk you into killing yourself. Like they approach you in public and whisper in your ear: "Kill yourself." Or rent an apartment in your building and become a friendly neighbor who just happens to tell you to jump off the roof.
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I never did that - but I have talked a woman into a bit of self abuse.....
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RE: Damned Scientologists
January 29, 2021 at 1:22 am
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(January 28, 2021 at 4:22 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I recently watched a couple episodes from the docuseries by Leah Remini about Scientology and just couldn't watch any more. There were several interviews with people who were either born into it or were in it for a long time and the stuff they talked about was just so damn bizarre.
I get that most religions are bizarre but this is some seriously whacked out stuff. The way people were/are treated, the money they put into it, and the things they believe are impossible for me to comprehend. I enjoy learning about cults but this one is just too much.
It's kinda insane; the more you look at it, just calling it a cult seems inadequate, since it's also a combination of the ravings of a madman, a Ponzi Scheme that charges you 150k to tell you we're all just cavemen with dozens of alien ghosts fighting over us at any given moment, and the power trip of a dwarf with all the even-headedness, imagination, and ruthlessness of The Trunchbull, and this chimera is so fucking powerful it can engage in legal guerrilla warfare with the U.S. Government and win. And the fact that hundreds of celebrities get taken in by it just makes it all the more jaw-dropping.
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RE: Damned Scientologists
January 29, 2021 at 2:34 am
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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"
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RE: Damned Scientologists
January 29, 2021 at 11:48 am
Mike Vogel as Lee Strobel? That's a considerable movie facelift.
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RE: Damned Scientologists
May 22, 2021 at 12:41 am
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"
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RE: Damned Scientologists
October 11, 2021 at 11:47 pm
Russia Bans Church Of Scientology For Being Phony Religion
Christians are gloating at a religious persecution
And it's so ironic seeing Christians rationalize how Scientologists believe in nonsense.
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"
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RE: Damned Scientologists
October 12, 2021 at 12:31 am
Having been a recovering Catholic for over 50 years, I've never quite understood the fuss about Scientology. Ok, they're manipulative, and aggressive and believe in weird shit Ron Hubbard made up as he went along .
Honestly can't see how Scientology is any more mendacious and loopy than any of the Abrahamic religions. I won't even start on Hinduism. Scientology is very young. Give it 1000 years or so.
So far Scientology has been banned or refused tax free status in a goodly number of countries.
I really don't care about scientologists unless they get in my face. Then I tend to say some very unkind things. My wish is that all religions lose their tax exempt status and are not allowed to own property. I won't hold my breath
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RE: Damned Scientologists
October 12, 2021 at 12:56 am
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RE: Damned Scientologists
May 15, 2022 at 11:35 pm
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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"
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RE: Damned Scientologists
June 14, 2022 at 8:12 am
Scientology has a new music video where we also learn that only clearers and OTs will survive some sort of cataclysm.
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"
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