• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    3 months ago

    scientology is also a scam. they are the same. manipulation of people for money and power.

    the guy who created scientology was a sci fi writer who actually declared he was going to create a religion for monetary reasons, and then did so.

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    3 months ago

    Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

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        3 months ago

        No, they don’t. Just because they have “scient” in the name doesn’t mean they have anything to do with science.

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        3 months ago

        They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

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    3 months ago

    Immigrants being roughly equivalent to thetans in their theology, yeah that checks out

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    3 months ago

    Personally, I don’t really feel that scientology is particularly worse than other religions. So you could just say that Trump supporters are more religious than political, really. Though, I don’t think that’s unique to Trump supporters, really - modern politics really is a lot more like a sort of religious thing rather than about the actual policy for a lot of people.