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.

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.

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.

Although he was a moderately successful science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard is best known as the creator of Scientology, a pseudo-scientific UFO cult – the claims of which sound suspiciously like one of L. Ron’s B-level sci-fi yarns. Prior to his career as a con man, I mean cult leader, he had a brief and highly exaggerated military career. He also suffered from mental illness.

Jett Travolta: Time to Audit Scientology’s Anti-Medicine Stance

Whatever the cause of his seizures, a Travolta family lawyer now says Jett had been taking Depakote, an anti-seizure medication, but had to stop it because of liver damage. Liver damage from Depakote is rare; more recently, the FDA has been concerned about its link to suicidal thoughts — exactly the kind of condition Scientologists they believe they can treat through the religious coursework they call “auditing.”

We’ll never know if Jett could have been helped with proper medication. We’ll never know how many people have been duped by Scientology into avoiding medications that could have saved them – with the inevitable tragic results.

What we do know is that people like Travolta continue to choose blind faith over reason and logic, and sometimes other people have to pay the price.