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Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 9 months ago in NewsHello, Scientology. We are Anonymous.Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed.
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Aidenag1 year, 9 months ago
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Supposedly this video was made by the people who shutdown the 'church' of scientology website. Wikinews has some more info for those wanting it:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hackers_attack_Chur...
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Digidave1 year, 9 months ago
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I am not a fan of scientology - but at the same time, I can't condone what these people are doing. Imagine if it was aimed at Jews or Muslims. We would all act differently.
Again, I can understand where they are coming from - scientology is strange and you can argue that it's not fair to the lower ranked members in the group. But it's no one groups place to decide that another group shouldn't be allowed to exist.
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macemare1 year, 9 months ago
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Egodeus591 year, 9 months ago
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The difference between a religion and a cult is this : acceptance. Christianity was considered a cult for hundreds of years until Constantine declared it the state religion at which point it was accepted. Strangely enough the government considers it a religion and grants them a tax exempt status. Makes me wonder about those in charge...
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Dionys1 year, 9 months ago
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No. There are specific clues to a cult. Such as personality-driven (Western "gurus"), isolation-prone, teaching that someone who leaves is broken (or preventing people from leaving), the amount of freedom given members in making their own choices, maintaining a member's dignity, and having a structure for addressing concerns.
It's all relative, granted, but there's more of a difference than simply "acceptance."
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Egodeus591 year, 9 months ago
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Your right
It would have been better for me to have said that a cult differers from a religion in that their practices are so different or bad that it cannot be accepted by the mainstream, most of the time for the very reasons which you stated.
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smithichie1 year, 9 months ago
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All religions fit the definiton of the word cult. It is only recently that cult has taken on a negative meaning, in the past it was no different than sect.
Main Entry: cult
Pronunciation: 'k<
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate â;;more at WHEEL
Date: 1617
1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
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joeblowe1 year, 9 months ago
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Well, there's really no doubt about it, Scientology is W.A.C.K.Y. in all caps. It's very hard for me to understand how anyone, no matter how simpleminded, could buy into that silly crap. But then again, it wasn't really all THAT long ago that some nutcase named Joseph Smith came up with something not much less wacky than this. And look what happened there. Yet another illustration of how foolish and stupid people can be if they let their guard down even a little.
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Mutainia1 year, 9 months ago
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I use to be very much into a science-fiction like religion when I was a boy. It dealt with planets, breeding human like beings ON planets, a submarine like ship that didn't sink when it had a hole in the top and bottom of it as it traveled to the New World where people turned dark in color and would turn white again if they were good. It dealt with all the white people being killed off BY those who turned dark in color, but, was recorded on golden plates by one remaining white guy who would later become a glowing, angelic being and show up in a young guy's room, telling him a certain thing atleast three times, as if the guy had a problem with memory. And, these golden plates were then taken up into orbit like something out of the imagination of Arthur C. Clark. I think you know what religion I'm talking about.
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Egodeus591 year, 9 months ago
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Scientology makes me wonder why no one has taken the works of H.P. Lovecraft and turned it into a religion.
"outside the ordered universe, where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity - the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes; to which detestable pounding and piping dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic Ultimate gods, the blind, voiceless, tenebrous, mindless Other gods whose soul and messenger is the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep"
I mean how could anyone doubt that Azaroth exists its all there in his books?
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