The demons of the murderous multilevel marketing scheme known as the cult of Scientology gets exposed by the mainstream press for a change. Scientology: The truth rundown | Tampabay.com St. Petersburg Times – better read it before the ultra-wealthy cult has its army of lawyers force a take-down.
You’ll enjoy this article showing how a leader in Scientology being confronted with his own “scripture.” How does he deal with it? Pretty much the same as every other religious leader; he goes on the attack. He claims you are just ridiculing his beliefs.
Scientology Official Addresses Works of L. Ron Hubbard
Well…? Yes, the beliefs of Scientology are truly ridiculous. There is a reason why they try so hard to hide them from the general public, as you’ll see.
Of course, a rational thinking might point out that believing in space aliens who created life on earth and whose spirits now haunt our lives is no more ridiculous than believing in a 2,000 year old zombie with magic powers to save us, but I’ll leave that to the reader.
The folks over at AlterNet have decided to have an intellectual discussion about Why Do People Believe in God?. Oh, wait …you missed my air quotes around “intellectual” didn’t you? An example of the masquerade …
Atheists claim (as I am doing here and as Richard Dawkins did in the title of his book) that God is a delusion.
A delusion is, pretty much by definition, dysfunctional.
Then it goes on to say how atheists aren’t happier than religious people and they don’t breed more, therefore religious beliefs can’t be delusional. …Eh? It’s hard to know if this writer is extremely stupid, or if he is merely trying to construct a straw man for the purpose of knocking atheism. I suspect it is the latter.
Delusion – an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary (Princeton)
– A fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. (Wikipedia)
Dysfunctional – impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ (Princeton)
Okay, game over. The Alternet article starts out from page 1 by being false, misleading and deceptive. We do not know if this is by design or through ignorance but it certainly makes this article a waste of time.
And if you think THAT bit of equivocation is idiotic, wait until you read the comments. Better yet, don’t bother. It’s like talking to toddlers.
Ignorance is rampant. In England a Hospital calls in exorcist after ghost spotted … One shudders to think what sort of medical service these people offer! Leeches and potions?
Meanwhile, in BC schoolteachers are being directed to a Scientology front group called Youth For Human Rights International. I’m sure B.C. kids need Scientology’s help … perhaps next year the school will be offering classes in necromancy.
The world just keeps getting stupider and stupider.
Many of you have seen the news reporting on the death of John Travolta’s son, Jett. The early reports mention that the teenager’s death was apparently caused when he had a seizure and struck his head.
A tragic accident. Or was it? Perhaps, but the unspoken contributor to this death was the deranged founder of The Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard.
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