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Chanology?
Liz:
--- Quote from: Spinless on 10 Feb 2008, 14:08 ---I always saw a church as being like a school, in that you believed what you were told, or you were wrong.
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It does tend to be like that, yes. But if you don't belong to a particular church you can still believe the religion it adheres to.
Switchblade:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 10 Feb 2008, 14:08 ---Protest is fair enough. That should be said. As long as it remains in the realms of peaceful, rational protest. I'm just wary of it becoming harassment or criminal damage.
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Fully agreed, and I wouldn't be behind this as muchas I am were it not for the fact that the protests are peaceful and civilized.
Thanks, in part, to the Wise Beard Man
Ozymandias:
Here's the main problem with Scientology:
In any other religion(barring Catholicism, I suppose), the religion and the Church can be separated. That's not that case with Scientology. The Church of Scientology is the religion. They are inseparable. To be in the religion you must adhere to the Church. And the Church is, unequivocally, malicious and greedy.
I don't give a shit about the religion, in reality. It's goofy as hell, but whatever. The Church, as an organization, is the problem.
ruyi:
are you sure that's not just because it's a young religion?
calenlass:
I am not joining in the protests for a number of reasons, some of them being lack of time, laziness, and this belief that Tommy is spouting about being free to practice whatever religions you wish.
That said, I do want to clarify one thing. The religion is NOT the same as the church. Christianity is a religion; churches are the groups of people who meet on sundays and give some money and listen to a dude give a sermon and interpret the passages in the Bible concerning their religion and also the administrators who work to maintain the actual church building that the people generally meet in. Judaism is a religion; the churches are the temples and synagogues and the people who meet within them. Etc etc etc.
At this point I am not even sure I believe scientology is a real religion, because since I don't know a whole lot about whatever their religious texts are, all I see is the Church of Scientology, and all that is is extortion and brainwashing, and that I definitely do not support.
Edit: what ozy said, I guess.
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