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Originally Posted by seisen  My question is why you guys are so easy to bash religions and say the are cults. Then aethists would be a cult because everybody doesn't believe in God or any other supreme being. |
Scientology wants money, and they are getting loads of it because that is how their cult functions.
Thye supported the DMCA and use it frequently against Google Slashdot (
Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot, Yahoo, any critics of them.
BBC documentary on Scientology was turned into a stalkingfest by them (they hire private investigators for every critic and use the predicatable Scientologist policy of fair game to attack them). they threatened to sue (as they frequently do:
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"A television news program, 60 Minutes, considered to be the United States' premiere investigative news program, featured a scathing 25-minute expose of Scientology's actions regarding a nonprofit organization called the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) on Sunday, December 28. CAN was the largest organization in the United States which aided cult victims, especially assisting parents whose children became trapped in dangerous cults.
Scientology filed 44 frivolous and malicious lawsuits against CAN, almost simultaneously, for the purpose of suing the organization out of existence and silencing its criticism of Scientology. "
Millions watch as 60 Minutes exposes fanatical cult's abuses of legal system, free speech, and critics |
Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic
so they had to take all the interesting stuff, eg.,
Lisa McPherson, some interviews with celebs, out.
BBC Scientology Documentary for free online Half an hour and you might learn a bit why countries don't classify it as a religion. Hint: It didn't start out that way until Hubbard got smacked down for practicing medicine without a license. So they got a first amendment exception by classifying it as a religious experience and making millions off their victims through selling 'religious' texts and courses (like Hubbard's sci fi book)
Scientology controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scientology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote:
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Originally Posted by Wiki Germany classes Scientology as a business, rather than a religious organization, and Belgium, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom, remain unconvinced that Scientology is a religion[91]. |
I'm atheist or agnostic, but this stuff is extremely shady.
Scientology and the legal system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Operation Snow White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Successful plan to infiltrate the US gov't in the 1970s
Scientology had to pay the largest damages to a Crown prosecutor in Canada for slander or libelling him. They use a method (formerly) called "
fair game".