Scientology on trial for fraud... again

TXatheist · Post by **TXatheist** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:25 pm

I can't believe people fall victim to this BS. Hopefully enough people will sue the Scientology church until it's eventually totally debunked. Unfortunately, there's a sucker born every minute.

http://www.religulous.org/2009/05/scien ... again.html

I want to see the movie Valkyrie, but it's getting so that I can't live with myself if I'm giving Tom Cruise money.

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:28 pm

You no-watch list must be awfully long if you decide based on weird religious beliefs:

Scientology: John Travolta, Isaac Hayes, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman, Isaac Hayes, Jim Carrey and Chick Corea
born-again Christian: Stephen Baldwin, Lon Chaney
Kabbalah : Madonna, Demi Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow
Buddhist Methodist: George Lucas
EST: John Denver
radical Catholic: Mel Gibson
Baha'i : Dizzy Gillespie, Carole Lombard
Quaker: Ben Kingsley, Judi Dench
Mormonism: Gladys Knight, Alice Cooper, Amy Adams, Gordon Jump
Transcendental Meditation : David Lynch
Christian Science: Mary Pickford, Carol Channing, Ginger Rogers, Jim Henson, Joan Crawford, Michael Nesmith, Lionel Hampton, Val Kilmer
Jehovah's Witnesses: Serena and Venus Williams

TXatheist · Post by **TXatheist** » Wed May 27, 2009 3:16 pm

I didn't care for most of the people you listed even before I saw the list lol. I like John Travolta and Jim Carrey, so I wish they weren't Scientologists, but the others I'm not big on anyway.

And I can deal with Christians and the other more traditional religions a lot easier than Scientologists. At least they have a religion with a serious history that goes back thousands of years. But this Scientology garbage was "invented" recently and the whole thing makes even less sense the most of the other faiths.

OnceConvinced · Post by **OnceConvinced** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:22 pm

It just goes to show you that there are many people out there who will believe anything they're told. Many people just don't have the ability to think rationally about certain religious claims.

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:42 am

religulous wrote:I didn't care for most of the people you listed even before I saw the list lol. I like John Travolta and Jim Carrey, so I wish they weren't Scientologists, but the others I'm not big on anyway.

And I can deal with Christians and the other more traditional religions a lot easier than Scientologists. At least they have a religion with a serious history that goes back thousands of years. But this Scientology garbage was "invented" recently and the whole thing makes even less sense the most of the other faiths.

Dangerous and silly counter-knowledge is much more acceptable when it is ancient and well established. Do I detect a double standard?

TXatheist · Post by **TXatheist** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:36 pm

McCulloch wrote:
religulous wrote:I didn't care for most of the people you listed even before I saw the list lol. I like John Travolta and Jim Carrey, so I wish they weren't Scientologists, but the others I'm not big on anyway.

And I can deal with Christians and the other more traditional religions a lot easier than Scientologists. At least they have a religion with a serious history that goes back thousands of years. But this Scientology garbage was "invented" recently and the whole thing makes even less sense the most of the other faiths.
Dangerous and silly counter-knowledge is much more acceptable when it is ancient and well established. Do I detect a double standard?

It's just the lesser of two evils.