[Coming from a Rapture-believing, young-earth creationist]
Anyone who follows L. Ron's teachings loses at least 95 I.Q. points. It is the most stupid made up religion ever.
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I find myself in the strange position of almost agreeing with mamacags. Ugh! It gives me the creeps just thinking that.
hey guys, you know science fiction is a great basis for religion. and so is stealing creation myths, flood myths, and godly characteristics from neighboring civilizations.
Well, she has a point - you would have to be a complete and utter cretin to buy into a religion that sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi movie started by a sci-fi writer who is reported to have said to numerous acquaintances, "I'd like to start a religion someday. That's where the real money is."
The only reason this quote belongs here is the source: Mamacags, an arch-fundie. If any quotation here deserved a Pot and Kettle Award, this is the one.
i think that the contradictions involved in believing andy kaufmann might be divine, especially the way he dealt with his last few months, require more stupidity (and probably drugs) than any other religion that i am aware of, if by only slim margins.
<<< Honestly, I don't see how the methods for creating scientology were any different from creating 'Flying Spaghetti Monsterism' >>>
Although anyone who enters into the Scientology cult is obviously being scammed, it might be kinda cool to be on the receiving end of the cash. I heard that some Scientologists give $200,000 during their lifetimes. Even if most only give a quarter of that, that's $72,000,000 from the people born on today alone! (Assumes that one sucker is born every minute.) However immoral it is, I kinda like L. Ron Hubbard's brute honesty when he said he wanted to start a religion for money.
It gets #2 on my dumb religion scale.
#1 still belongs to the fundies of all religious affiliations whether they be Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, or whatever. They seem want to kill people in all sorts of violent ways. The Scientologists will mostly just sue you to oblivion :-)
For the leadership it's certainly a money-making machine.
I suspect the lure of Scientology for many adherants is that it makes people part of a club that is very into a 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' philosophy, like being a Freemason or having gone to the right private school.
It must have some benefits, because it's just so epically moronic that it leaves older religions for dead in the stupid stakes.
The only true religion is Pastafarianism! And, to a lesser extent, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, even though they are decadent pirates!
*headdesk*
...The irony is so thick here. Thetans? Satan and/or demons. Xenu? Satan. Operating Thetans? Believing Xians. Xenu's volcano nukes? Noah's flood.
It's the same shit in a different pile.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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