Posted on 06/30/2009 4:05:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just remove their tax exemption. We can ban people from associating with whom they wish.
Sorry but I'm in a crappy mood today.
Just remove their tax exemption. We can’t ban people from associating with whom they wish.
It is generally believed that L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology to win a bet with Arthur C. Clarke. Robert A. Heinlein is sometimes mentioned as the other party to the bet, but he seems to have contributed to Dianetics (helping Hubbard win his bet), so this is very unlikely.
>>Just remove their tax exemption. We cant ban people from associating with whom they wish.<<
Better to prosecute them for grifting, but at least we should pull the exemption.
It’s because this is not a religion, it’s a cult.
Now there’s another cult that masquerades as a religion. I wonder what that can be!
There are some serious horror stories regarding this cult on the web.
If the bet ever happened it was much more likely to have been with Heinlein then Clarke. Clarke didn’t live in the USA. Clarke served in the Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1946. Clarke lived in Sri Lanka since 1956. Although he did visit here in 1953, I have no idea if he met with Hubbard. Dianetics was being worked up by Hubbard already in 1949.
Clarke claims to never have known Hubbard in this interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43YakGYQYGc
I’ll see their scientology and raise them islam.
"It all began 75 million years ago with a galactic federation of planets ruled by the evil Lord Xenu. Fearing overcrowding, Xenu rounded up countless aliens from all those planets and had those aliens frozen. The frozen alien bodies were loaded onto Xenu's galactic cruisers, which looked like DC-8s, except with rocket engines. They were sent to earth and dumped into the volcanoes of Hawaii. They were no longer frozen. They were dead.
"The souls of the aliens floated toward the sky, Xenu had built giant "soul catchers" to collect them all and unload them into a brainwashing facility he had built on earth.
The souls were forced to watch days of brainwashing material that tricked them into believing a false reality. Xenu then released the alien souls that roamed the earth aimlessly in a fog of confusion. At the dawn of man the aliens found bodies they could grab onto. They attached themselves to all mankind, which still to this day causes all our fears, confusions and problems."
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