Inside Scientology (Rolling Stone expose of $cientology a must read!)

Rolling Stone ^ | 2-23-06 | JANET REITMAN

[Central Scrutiniser]

Just asking you to stick to one subject.

If you want to bash Islam, do it somewhere else.

No one is censoring you, but I'm not impressed by your boring, overdone cliche's.

[IronJack]

According to the IRS, they have tax free religion status.

Which they were awarded under pressure from the Clinton administration ...

[ExcursionGuy84]

Rats, You beat me by 2 posts!

[binkdeville]

It's a BIG money scam ..that's it !

[ExcursionGuy84]

Tax-exempt since 1993 (status granted by the IRS after a long legal battle), A strange and interesting coincidence.

How is that?

[D-fendr]

From the Editorial Review of the book you recommend:

"Scientist, poet, and self-proclaimed Antichrist, Jack Parsons was a bizarre genius whose life reads like an implausible yet irresistible science fiction novel. Sex and Rockets looks at his short life and dual career as cofounder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and leader of the Agape Lodge of Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)."

[Doctor Stochastic]

Why do you think he has such a name. He's on Cruise Control.

[SuziQ]

Is LRH, Jr. a member of the cult his father founded?

I can't get over how much the group in "The 4400" sounds like Scientology.

[augggh]

That about sums it up.

Nothing at all in that book or that blurb backs up the claim that Parsons was a "practicing Satanist".

Incidentally, the "Antichrist" is a Christian conception, not a Satanist construct.

[zeeba neighba]

lol

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"No one is censoring you, but I'm not impressed by your boring, overdone cliche's."

Yeah, like I care about impressing you.

I simply made a comment that current events makes not only relevant but quite obvious.

I'm sorry if it frustrates and confuses you to have other relevant topics included in a discussion.

May I suggest you create your own forum and establish strict rules of one-and-only-one topic per thread.

Let me know how popular it is. I suspect only those who share your exclusive views such as Muslims and Scientologists will find it to their liking.

[JRochelle]

."..he gleefully started a whacked up religion"


Well he isn't the only one. And I won't name names, or I will be flamed.

[zeeba neighba]

What do you suppose was his duties as leader of the temple?

[Lady Heron]

LOL!

[augggh]

What do you suppose was his duties as leader of the temple?

I don't suppose anything, I have read the book. Parsons was never in his short life a Satan worshipper. Neither was Hubbard.

You can continue to smugly spread misinformation, or you can actually take the time to learn about someone that played an integral role in US history.

The choice is yours.

[ExcursionGuy84]

He's on Cruise Control.

I see it as Demonic Possession or the results of "Scientology Church-approved" Ultra-High use of psychotic matter

[BreitbartSentMe]

Here's a link to Null and Void's Q&A on Scientology (as a former member): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1522132/posts

[wideawake]

The Federal Republic of Germany considers Scientology to be an illegal pyramid scheme, not a religion.

[snarks_when_bored]

There will always be schisms in any religious group, as well as people who, upon leaving their faith, decide to "purge" themselves of their experiences.

The Bard alludes to this phenomenon:

...the heresies that men do leave
Are hated most of those they did deceive;

            —Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II

[Tribune7]

Who took over control of our government in 1993?