In response to the war btween 'Anonymous' and scientology

NOT THAT I SUPPORT THE CUILT OF SCIENTOLOGY, BUT…

When you take a literal reading of any religion’s teachings, be it Scientology’s trillion year old earth (same with Hinduism) and earth impregnated with life be aliens that destroy evidence of them (not too dissimilar from Intelligent Design’s explanation for evolutionary evidence) or Christianity’s precepts a wholly simple God too far above the laws of logic to comprehend (who just so happens to like impregnating virgins and wrestling with Jewish farmers in the desert), of an all-loving and all powerful deity that lets the world be filled with evil and idiocy (while restraining people’s free-will, if such a thing exists, through social rules, economic constraints and physical and mental illnesses), of an intervening God who regularly performs miracles (events which break the laws of nature he himself apparently made unbreakable) but only for the people he likes.

These literal teachings are all equally absurd, but that doesn’t matter; the [b] true [/b] strength of any faith isn’t what’s literally taught, however, but the messages people can read into it. The cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or even scientology, could provide as much moral truth as Judaism or Hinduism, if you read the right messages out of it.


Before you say, “but scientology’s a cult, coz you have to give your material possessions to the cult leaders,” remember the early history of the Christian Church; way back before the Romans even thought to feed the followers of Jesus to the lions, when Christianity was little older than Scientology Is now, it was a prerequisite for new members of the faith to relinquish all material possessions to the community of the church; that Is, Christianity is (or at least was) a false religion, if you consider any religion that requires members to give up their cash to the leader to get to heaven a false religion.

Also, before you start spouting on about how, Scientogy is worse than Christianity simply because it’s newer, think what your saying; your arguing from ignorance, that Christianity must be better, simply because you [i] don’t know anything about it’s history [/i], but do you really know any more about the history of scientology. Otherwise, your making a claim based SOLEY upon it’s age, in which case, you should accept anything an elderly person says to you over a young person, if age intrinsically breeds wisdom and truth. Also, your subjecting faith question by real-world evidence that makes them sound corrupt or that contradicts their teachings; there’s just as much of that, in what we DO know about the older religion’s histories, and so if we damn scientology on that, we damn all faiths.

To conclude, Scientology really isn’t that much more crazy, than believing that the Buddha found enlightenment under a tree somewhere in India or that the world was made in seven days by a flying spaghetti monster; they’re both equally valid, however, if looked at from the right (highly distorted) angle.

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