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John Travolta - Inside Scientology
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I've been told this is not appropriate to post in the religion forum so I'll give it a go here...

After recent events I wondered what everyone's views on young people involved in scientology are. Does it do more harm than any other 'religion'.

Interesting piece on a teen site here-

http://readplatform.com/scientology-ruined-my-life


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Scientology is fine, and if you want to stop it you are challenging freedom of religion.

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I think it does do more harm that other 'religions'. It actually encourages people to spend huge sums of money on BS. It also relies on L. Ron Hubbard's solutions for many illnesses, most of which are ineffective.

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Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 5:28 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Scientology is fine, and if you want to stop it you are challenging freedom of religion.

Do keep in mind I want to stop scientology though, but not in a forceful way. By exposing it as a fraud, the same I wish to do with Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

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Quote: from InsaneBlue at 5:29 am on Jan. 7, 2009

I think it does do more harm that other 'religions'. It actually encourages people to spend huge sums of money on BS. It also relies on L. Ron Hubbard's solutions for many illnesses, most of which are ineffective.

More harm? Wait... Look at the Muslims, once and a while they blow themselves up. or the Christians through the years, have killed alot. Then we have the Jewish religion, which used to commit cannibalism and that type of stuff.

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Scientology =/= religion.

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Quote: from blufindr at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Scientology =/= religion.

Of course it does = a religion.

People who say not are just silly.

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Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from InsaneBlue at 5:29 am on Jan. 7, 2009

I think it does do more harm that other 'religions'. It actually encourages people to spend huge sums of money on BS. It also relies on L. Ron Hubbard's solutions for many illnesses, most of which are ineffective.

More harm? Wait... Look at the Muslims, once and a while they blow themselves up. or the Christians through the years, have killed alot. Then we have the Jewish religion, which used to commit cannibalism and that type of stuff.

You can't just compare it to Islam like that. Now if Scientology were to be scaled up to the size of Islam, I believe it would cause more harm, yes.

And Jewish Cannablism is no more than a legend. Possible, but unlikely.

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Quote: from InsaneBlue at 5:37 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from InsaneBlue at 5:29 am on Jan. 7, 2009

I think it does do more harm that other 'religions'. It actually encourages people to spend huge sums of money on BS. It also relies on L. Ron Hubbard's solutions for many illnesses, most of which are ineffective.
 
 More harm? Wait... Look at the Muslims, once and a while they blow themselves up. or the Christians through the years, have killed alot. Then we have the Jewish religion, which used to commit cannibalism and that type of stuff.

You can't just compare it to Islam like that. Now if Scientology were to be scaled up to the size of Islam, I believe it would cause more harm, yes.  

And Jewish Cannablism is no more than a legend. Possible, but unlikely.



Jewish Cannibalism is not legend.
Islam can be compared like that.
I know it doesnt sound right, but Im doing the same thing you are doing about Scienology, just making assumptions.

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Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 12:32 am on Jan. 8, 2009

Quote: from blufindr at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Scientology =/= religion.

Of course it does = a religion.

People who say not are just silly.


It really, really isn't.

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Quote: from blufindr at 5:42 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 12:32 am on Jan. 8, 2009

Quote: from blufindr at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Scientology =/= religion.
 
 Of course it does = a religion.  

 People who say not are just silly.


It really, really isn't.



Well I think it is.

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It's so sad what happened to John Travolta's son but perhaps some good will come out of it if it focuses some light on the Scientology cult.

I live in Tampa Bay and the Scientologists have this huge headquarters in Clearwater where they all go to have their brains audited. Come on people, get a life. L. Ron Hubbard was a third-rate fiction writer and scam artist extraordinaire.  


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Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 12:43 am on Jan. 8, 2009

Quote: from blufindr at 5:42 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 12:32 am on Jan. 8, 2009

Quote: from blufindr at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Scientology =/= religion.

  Of course it does = a religion.

  People who say not are just silly.


 

 It really, really isn't.



Well I think it is.

I think unicorns exist.

Thinking things do not make them so.

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Quote: from blufindr at 5:45 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 12:43 am on Jan. 8, 2009

Quote: from blufindr at 5:42 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 12:32 am on Jan. 8, 2009

Quote: from blufindr at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Scientology =/= religion.
   
  Of course it does = a religion.    

  People who say not are just silly.


  It really, really isn't.


 
 Well I think it is.

I think unicorns exist.

Thinking things do not make them so.



Who knows maybe Unicorns exist.

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Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 5:39 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from InsaneBlue at 5:37 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from FightingForTheGood at 5:31 am on Jan. 7, 2009

Quote: from InsaneBlue at 5:29 am on Jan. 7, 2009

I think it does do more harm that other 'religions'. It actually encourages people to spend huge sums of money on BS. It also relies on L. Ron Hubbard's solutions for many illnesses, most of which are ineffective.

  More harm? Wait... Look at the Muslims, once and a while they blow themselves up. or the Christians through the years, have killed alot. Then we have the Jewish religion, which used to commit cannibalism and that type of stuff.

 

 You can't just compare it to Islam like that. Now if Scientology were to be scaled up to the size of Islam, I believe it would cause more harm, yes.

 And Jewish Cannablism is no more than a legend. Possible, but unlikely.



Jewish Cannibalism is not legend.
Islam can be compared like that.
I know it doesnt sound right, but Im doing the same thing you are doing about Scienology, just making assumptions.

That's exactly what everyone needs to do in these cases. There aren't any statistics for how many people someone or something has killed / ruined.

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