Scientology, what do you know?

[NorCal]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

Maybe this was the movie shoe was recalling from his youth.

Was there a laser-shooting flying robot?

No flying robots, just a list of all the great things they owned. Yahts, airplanes, hotels and so on.

 

[rxcats]

Originally Posted by Bogie

Well how do you know atheism isn't just a naturalism cult? You want to believe in no God that's your prerogative, but to actively criticize others for doing so is something else.


Actively criticize...like you did Scientology? Not believing in the supernatural, does not a cult make. I know most people in the world do believe in some sort of deity or deities and everyone else's is a cult...at least until it catches on. Many people also believe in fortune tellers, magic (religion again?) and horoscopes. I don't embrace those either; I am not just picking on God. The only point I was trying to make is that most relgions, if not all, stated off as cults. I doubt Scientology is going to disappear; it already has too many adherents for that. I strongly suspect, in a couple of hundred years or so, it will be a mainstream religion; unbelievable things have a way of growing on people.

 

[deepitm]

Great article on Scientology recently from the New Yorker entitled The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology by Lawrence Wright:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright