Scientology: What it really is and isn't

The Dallas Morning News ^ | Thursday, July 7, 2005 | JEFFREY WEISS

[onedoug]

Religion?

[Waco]

Crapola

[Lloyd227]

"...created so that Jehovah's Witnesses would have somebody to look down upon"

Now THAT is both the most insightful and downright funny posting I've seen tonight

Cheers,
Lloyd

[Hank Rearden]

Hey, if you like that, I gotta nother one:

"You get to be a Scientologist if you're not quite stupid enough to be a Muslim."

[Dashing Dasher]

I'm stealing quotes from your profile page for my email.

Thanks.

[Waco]

It is sorta amusing to see all those rich dudes getting ripped of to the roots of their eye teeth, ain't it?

[Dinsdale]

Reading Battlefield Earth was like watching a slow motion car wreck.

I kept expecting it to get better. It just COULD'NT be this bad all the way through.

I'll say one thing good about the movie. It was better then the book.

[null and void]

Glad I missed both...

[Crim]

Well..I read a ton of sci-fi including hubbard...

Mission earth is where you see the man behind the curtain....everything scientology is....is forshadowed in his sci-fi stuff...

Even the use of black mail....aka..."leverage"...

scientology is the "apparatus"....

[LibertarianInExile]

Absolutely free to the public. Enjoy.

When they took the fifth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't own real estate.
When they took the fourth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment,
I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment,
and I can say nothing about it.

[claudiustg]

And then there was the Nation of Islam:

---Despite the use of Muslim references, including the Arabic word for "God," Fard did not espouse the same Islam as revealed on the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century. The NOI theology holds that a mad black scientist named Yakub created white people 6000 years ago as a curse and test for the superior black people. Fard claimed to be sent by Allah to reclaim his people, the tribe of Shabazz that had been kidnapped and sent to America in chains...After his disappearance, Elijah Muhammad revealed the truth: that Fard was not a prophet, but God himself, and he, Muhammad, was his messenger. ---

[FreedomCalls]

And the Golden Plates of the Angel Moroni.

[Fudd Fan]

Well that is special. He can word it any way he likes. It's a CULT!

And equating their position on psychiatry with the Catholic Church's stand on abortion is something I cannot get my mind around. Sorry.

[Fudd Fan]

I cannot believe anyone would take that BS seriously. I pity those who do.

[highlander_UW]

IT'S A CULT

A number of years ago I attended a Christian university and took a class on modern religious cults. As part of the class we had to do a term paper on a cult, my choice was Scientology. I went to the main center in Seattle WA and said I was working on a paper for a class and asked if I could ask some questions. I took their introductory test and they were open about answering my questions. Near the end of my time there they asked me the name of the class I was doing the paper for. They turned a bit green when I was honest and told them the answer. It is garbage...consider this, if memories are stored in the cells, then what happens when someone has a blood transfusion? Does that person pick up the problems that were stored in the blood cells of whoever the donor was? It's a nutty cult to boot.

[lewislynn]

I got a warning about visiting that site from my spyware...That doesn't happen very often.

[ArcadeQuarters]

A: It's an optical illusion. In truth, no more than a half-dozen or so celebrities have been publicly associated with Scientology. In addition to Cruise, Travolta and Alley, you have Kelly Preston (Travolta's wife), Isaac Hayes, Chick Corea, Greta Van Susteren.

Vanilla Ice too. Or maybe he's not considered a celebrity.

[Siobhan]

The article is really garbage. Scientology is a great danger to human beings within and outside of it. I am one who believes its standing military divisions and intelligence gathering sectors are a threat to the national security of the United States.

Scientology is far worse than Sun Myung Moon or any of the others in my estimation. It is Christianity's greatest organized public enemy in the United States

Siobhan

[snuffy smiff]

ping for later

[Squeako]

Great quotes. I know someone just like that.