So that means if a Scientologist runs for POTUS, supposed Thetans, the Planet Venus, and L. Ron Hubbard are all off-limits for discussion and weighing of that candidate?...just 'cause JFK was Roman Catholic?
Really?
See Similarities between Mormonism and Scientology
I mean, L. Ron Hubbard could have easily substituted Mormonism's Kolob for Venus in his religion.
Oh, and if you want to know what a "Thetan" is, here:
According to Scientology, when a person dies — or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body — they go to a "landing station" on the planet Venus, where the thetan is re-implanted and told lies about its past life and its next life. The Venusians take the thetan, "capsule" it, and send it back to Earth to be dumped into the ocean off the coast of California. Source: Thetan (Wikipedia)
Seems to me that, per the Mormon myth narrative, when when an earthling is becoming "encapsuled" they leave from a "launching station" on the planet Kolob, where the Mormon spirit is implanted inside a human body, and once born with a Mormon family, the Mormon is told lies about its past life and its next life. The Mormon gods take the Mormon, "capsule" it in that body, and send it to Earth to be dumped at age 8 into the Mormon baptismal founts off of many international coasts.
Mormonism's equivalent to the Scientologist's "Thetan" is the so-called "pre-existence."
Just like many TV shows & movies, which use retread ideas like Hawaii 5-0, etc., the demons often only had to switch vocab words while using many similar themes in new religion creation.
I think there is something to the argument that yeah, a candidate might be the best thing ever, exept he believes the Earth isn’t round, it’s burrito shaped (bloom county reference).
I don’t think LDS rises to that level yet for me, but what if there are two candidates, both equally conservative, one LDS? I can see it becoming a factor I reckon. What else are you supposed to do, flip a coin?
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