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Originally Posted by Stompy
Scientology isn't a religion. At all.
That's like saying... people who believe in The Force (from Star Wars) are following a valid religion. It's absurd. I personally thing all religions are equally as absurd, but.. that's for a different thread.
L. Ron Hubbard wrote some sci-fi books and thought it would be clever to try and convince people that certain events actually happened. How can someone sit there with a serious face and think there isn't anything wrong with that? If I sat here and made up a story of how a monkey named Charles gave me a holy banana on a desolate island and told you I believed him to be my god, would you look at me with a straight face? Maybe in principle you'd feel like saying, "If that's what you want to worship, so be it," but no. I would be a fuckin loon. That is... if I ACTUALLY believed in that.
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I call bullshit on that. The only thing that sets scientology apart from the 'valid' religions is that people have been practicing the valid religions for a long enough time that faith is socially engineered into their belief system.
Is it really that different than some guy walking up to you saying "I have this book here written by the creator of the universe that explains everything. In a nutshell, everything was created 5,000 years ago over the course of 7 days. Mankind started with one dude who lived with his wife in paradise till they talked to a snake and were expelled from paradise for it. Forgien languages? It's just because people were trying to build a ladder to heaven. God struck it down and made then speak different languages so they couldn't do it again. Then there was this flood and this one dude built a boat and gathered two of every species on the planet. Now everything was cool, or so they thought until this other guy was born from a virgin came along and said 'hey you're doing it all wrong!' He walked on water and turned that water into wine. We killed him but he rose from the dead and now we devote our lives to him. Also, if you don't believe you will go to hell and be tortured for eternity. Of course, none of this can be historically proven and science proves all of this to be inaccurate but we KNOW the truth"
Or what about the Mormons? They believe that the Indians were Isralites and that Jesus came to North America. They also believe in the protection gained from special undergarments and that those who reach a certain level in the Church get to rule their own planet.
Tell me honestly that if you had never been exposed to Christianity in ANY way that this somehow would seem more valid than Scientology.