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Old 06-15-2005, 05:44 PM   #33 (permalink)
pan6467
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
When a "religion" has protocls for declaring someone an enemy of the "church," and not only allows, but encourages its members to slander, harass, and evern physically harm those enemies, it is a dangerous organization.
Ah.... sounds like Pat Robertson and the Religious Right's wing of Christianity, or Catholicism's history, does it not? Yet, I wonder if there would be as much of an outcry if she chose to start going to the same church as Pat and gang or had an audience with the pope. I wonder if she started quoting Bible and verses if people would stand up and decry her choice.

I guess it is all in what society dictates.

(Again, I am not a fan of Scientology, but everyone on this planet has the right to choose how they want to pursue their spirituality...... so long as it harms none.)
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