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KharBevNor:
Dude I would not be so uncritical about Mother Teresa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position_%28book%29
and Ghandi? Ghandi was the utter antithesis of organised religion.
Switchblade:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 11 Feb 2008, 00:17 ---
Yeah, the point is kind of, uh, "Anonymous." Also, I don't think they're scared of the cops. I think they're a little bit scared of the Church. I would be.
--- End quote ---
By all accounts, the cops in most if not all of the protest locations wereequal parts amused and accepting of the protestors.
One of the core points behind the protest arrangements was that everyone should keep it civil, keep it legal, and respect the police. Something which the cops appreciated, no doubt.
öde:
I don't even know what Gandhi's religion was (just that he was totally rad).
HOORAY!
mooface:
so, uh, my two cents:
1 cent: i don't understand what people mean when they say "hey Scientology is just a religion just like any other evil religion". i don't get that. does it mean that people shouldn't be able to protest it just because there aren't people protesting the Catholic Church? because i think it is definitely okay to protest Scientology just as i think it was totally okay for me to get pissed off about my Catholic high school being forced to give all the money that was supposed to go towards building an auditorium to the Church's fund for defending the priests who molested children. i think that it is good that people are speaking out against all the bad things that Scientology is doing and i think that more people should be speaking out against all the bad things that other older religions are doing.
brainwashing people and taking their money is bad. just because an organization calls itself a religion doesn't make it right. and so these practices should be stopped because although people have the right to believe whatever they want, they shouldn't have the right to trick people and take their money.
2 cent: also, i would like to say that i think scientology, although i don't know much about it, is pretty different from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism. although all these religions may have their flaws and may have been used as tools for doing evil, they all have the fundamental golden rule of "love your neighbor as you love yourself", just with different wording. Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha... they all had the best intentions when they set out their moral codes (which mainly revolved around tolerance and understanding). despite how their words may have eventually been misinterpreted or covered up by other trivial rules and manipulations, i don't think any of them are really comparable to L. Ron Hubbard.
Spinless:
This raises a big issue. Prove that the church of Scientology is tricking people. Infact, prove that the Catholic Church is not tricking people. Prove the existence of a god, and I'll go and fetch Xenu, he's probably hiding behind my couch. The argument of faith still applies to the CoS. Even if they do use brainwashing techniques and scare tactics. Infact, most organised religions do. Nobody wants to burn in hell for eternity, do they?
Once people start using legal action against the CoS, the doors should open to use it against any organised religion.
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