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Originally Posted by laserbeard
how is believing in Scientology any more fucked than believing in Christianity?
sure, it's a ridiculous story that couldn't possibly be true, but so's the fucking bible. and at least Scientologists haven't had any Crusades/Witch Hunts/Wars on Iraq.
if celebrities wanna believe in freaky shit, who cares.
it's not like they're threatening you, and even if they were, you couldn't afford to be a Scientologist, because them shits is expensive.
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ahem...
most other major religions, whether you like it or not (and i don't really like it...) have cultural significance, they have also played, in my humble opinion, an important role in human evolution (although now it's reached it's pinnacle, one could argue religion has started to do the opposite.
scientology is fifty or so year old cult that's best achievement was the largest infiltration of the us government in history, something that could be seen as cool if it were a gang of punks doing it, but no it was to purge anything unfavourable about them or their leader. what did they have to hide?
scientology is also different in that it makes it's members pay. oh, i'm sure you'll come back and tell me that catholic churches do too, but there is a huge difference between my mum throwing a few pennies in a plate every week to mend the church's leaking roof, and paying large sums of money to find out what it is exactly that you believe.
the bible isn't ridiculous for the most part. jesus says some pretty neat shit in some parts, and in the end you realise that he was just a pretty cool guy who got whacked off and who's message got bastardised. i could probably learn some stuff from him, but i prefer to be hateful and evil most of the time.
also, the iraq war had nothing,
nothing to do with christianity.
i should add that i do not believe in god at all, it won't seem that way though.