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celebrity church,l ron hubbard,paris,france,sect,cult,xenu French Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of FraudFrench Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of Fraudtags:The Church of Scientology in France has been found guilty of defrauding its followers and its leaders have been handed fines and suspended prison sentences. A Paris court on Tuesday convicted the two principal institutions of the Church of Scientology in France of organized fraud, but stopped short of banning the groups activities in France.
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Scientology requires that you buy ridiculously expensive classes, books, treatments and potions in order to advance your level of religiosity. Most sects of Christianity accept voluntary donations, but do not require them in exchange for the right to participate.
Lock those sci-fi rejects up and throw away the key as far as I'm concerned.
^I'm no fan of Christianity, but it's unfair to compare well meaning Christians with the scumbags who run Scientology.
Scientology requires that you buy ridiculously expensive classes, books, treatments and potions in order to advance your level of religiosity. Most sects of Christianity accept voluntary donations, but do not require them in exchange for the right to participate.
Lock those sci-fi rejects up and throw away the key as far as I'm concerned.
They do -now-, but Christian churches have done their share of arm-twisting/extortion in the past. Let's remember the practices of selling indulgences, and tithing. Both of those were directly trading "salvation" for money.
Perhaps a better comparison would be to compare Scientology to a young Christianity. When you do that, they just don't look all that different.
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^I'm no fan of Christianity, but it's unfair to compare well meaning Christians with the scumbags who run Scientology.
Scientology requires that you buy ridiculously expensive classes, books, treatments and potions in order to advance your level of religiosity. Most sects of Christianity accept voluntary donations, but do not require them in exchange for the right to participate.
Lock those sci-fi rejects up and throw away the key as far as I'm concerned.
They do -now-, but Christian churches have done their share of arm-twisting/extortion in the past. Let's remember the practices of selling indulgences, and tithing. Both of those were directly trading "salvation" for money.
Perhaps a better comparison would be to compare Scientology to a young Christianity. When you do that, they just don't look all that different.
That was one of my points over on the comment I made for this video: http://www.videosift.com/video/Scientology-Leader-Can-t-Handle-the-Heat-On-Xenu-Storms-Out
Scientology will learn from its mistakes and slowly become more and more "mainstream" as it grows. Until we start educating people that ALL religion is basically the same, we will have cults and religions (and really, there isn't much of a difference there if you look deep enough.
Christianity presently makes people shoot abortion doctors, deprive homosexuals of basic rights, and all sorts of other bigotry. Why isn't Christianity "dangerous" the way scientology is? Oh, I'm sure some will say that isn't ALL christianity, just the fringe, but the reality is that I'm sure Scientology has its moderates as well...
... Really people, if there was an all powerful force in the universe, there would be some consistency in religion. The very fact that there are so many different views should give you a clue that religion addresses a basic human need to understand the unknown, but isn't actually based on anything real.
Well, except for the Mormons... they are clearly right.
I agree it's fraud. Though I don't see the difference between an organization that promises to save your soul from Threatens for a price, and one that promise to save your soul from Satan if you pay your tithing. Either way it's superstitious scaremongering for profit.
One actually does things for the community, and society while the other one strong arms people/groups/etc into going away.
If you can't figure out what the difference between the two is, I pity you. But around here, the churches(*insert Christian brand* and *insert Jewish brand*) do more to help people than the government does.
One actually does things for the community, and society while the other one strong arms people/groups/etc into going away.
Since when was this about food not bombs vs the catholic church?
I'm not really sure what the difference is, is a cult considered more extreme and worship a leader?