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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:52 PM Original message |
Is Scientology a cult? |
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Fed_Up_Grammy (923 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. I just watched the guy talking about the over-prescribing of |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Perhaps, but that's only half the story. |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 04:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
39. But what he probobly doesn't say is... |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. No. Scientology is a valid, true religion - equal to Christianity, |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. There is only one true religion |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. How can we miss you when you won't go away? |
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New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 04:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
43. Scientology is only slightly more goofy than Mormonism =P |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
44. Only in one way |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-07-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #44 |
55. Really? |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-25-08 09:35 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Sorry for late response |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #44 |
60. Interesting exposition. n/t |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. yes as is Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. The experience I have, through family, is that it's a cult. They still may be right about |
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rwheeler31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. yes |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. I believe that cults are usually best defined by the outside. |
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Genevieve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. Of course it is-- |
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comradebillyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
9. yes |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
10. Any more or less then Christianity? (n/t) |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Christianity doesn't charge you money for its services and doesn't hunt you down when you leave. n/t |
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USA_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. 100 % Correct |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. That's not what I heard about Mormons. |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:00 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. There are crazy fringes in any belief system... |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 01:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
46. Mormons are a cult too |
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. paying for church. |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:04 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Scientology: The modern science of selling books |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 08:57 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. Yes, Christianity does charge you money - one tenth of your income. |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. That was your church, not "Christianity" -- there's a difference |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I have never heard of any Christian church that didn't 'pass the plate" |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Yes, churches need money to operate, but a collection plate is not an invoice |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 05:44 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Passing the plate |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 06:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. We do get a bill when we affiliate to a synagogue |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 01:58 AM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Interesting.... |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 08:25 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Places of worship have different purposes perhaps |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:13 AM Response to Reply #11 |
27. Cult has little to do with doctrine and everything to do with control |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #11 |
28. Well |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 12:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
42. what is a tithe? what are TV evangelists asking for? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 06:05 PM Response to Reply #42 |
54. Tithe is the ten percent of your income you give back to God. |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. I have come to believe all religions are cults. Some do some good |
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theredpen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. Scientology experience... |
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Digit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
20. Yes, I was involved for awhile, but I don't like to think about it anymore |
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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
21. No more than any christian denomination |
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SecularNATION (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:08 AM Response to Original message |
22. Yes, It's a Cult |
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SecularNATION (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:15 AM Response to Original message |
23. Also.... |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 06:47 AM Response to Original message |
24. All religions are cults when you get right down to it. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:50 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. No- not all |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
29. According to the ABCDEF, yes |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:48 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Issac Bonewits- I met him years ago and he was very cool. |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. That's a great measure and I've used it for years |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
30. I believe that it is a cult. |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
38. Yes. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-31-08 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
45. at what age does a "cult" become a "religion"? |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
48. In Los Angeles you can meet and I have people who met |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
49. What are your crimes? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 10:41 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. That first one, oh my goodness! |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 11:19 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. The three men in the first video |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 02:21 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. That is creepy. |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 08:35 PM Response to Reply #52 |
59. It is a part of Hubbard's indoctrination |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
53. No |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-24-08 05:32 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. um... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
58. No more so than any other religion...nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
61. Yes, but so is much of Christianity and Islam |
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