Scientology is a Rip Off
Category: Real World > Religion
Its Okay
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Why couldn't this be a legit religion? Look how many millions of people think that a unseen God inspired his spirit into them
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"The fact that the material basis for the religion of Scientology is organised in a business-like manner can have no implications for its status as a religion. Does a work of art cease to be a work of art when it is efficiently produced for sale or exchange? It is naive to think that any new religious movement could survive in the modern world without a business-like material basis for its operations, and as Canon Drury has pointed out, even the ancient Christian churches are nowadays not averse from engaging in business affairs in order to sustain or promote their services to actual and potential members. Lacking the benefits of inherited property-wealth, endowments, patronage and a "birth right" membership, new religious movements must either act in a business-like manner or perish." -- James A. Beckford, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, England.
http://www.humanrights-germany.org/experts/
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Its a Scam
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"I'm going to invent a religion that's going to make me a fortune. I'm tired of writing for a penny a word."
-L. Ron Hubbard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Ron_Hubbard
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I'm not an idiot. I dont believe thetans live inside me and that a space emporer has bombed Earth. Even if its true I would still rather be a heathen.
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WWJD
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Scientology made Tom Cruise weird. It also made Battlestar Galactica a terrible film. Isn't that proof enough for you people?
