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  • Fantastic article!

    Someone tell me why those in the USA who try so hard to get the 10 commandments posted all over in our public square and taught to our kids in school break so many of them trying to get that done? And also fight so hard to take money from the poor and middle class and put in the hands of the rich? And also to keep corporate greed-based health ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008

  • Lieing Hypocrites

    What an article. Talk about no research. Did the author just call up the JW PR department and copy down everything they told him? Yes, the Watchtower Society promoted the fact that the poor Witnesses in the African country of Malawi were being persecuted because they were told by the Watchtower not to buy a political I.D. card. If they did the ...
    Posted to Explainer by Harry Harr on June 28, 2008

  • Salvation don't come cheap.

    The central problem with Scientology and other cults is that there is no distinction between the religion and the faith. You must pay (handsomely) to obtain Scientology's salvation (it's ''freedom'' concept). There's no room for penniless Scientologists. Judaism, Islam, Christianity ... they all manage to separate the organized religion from the ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by ATOMICPunkSTL on August 3, 2007

  • if scientology isn't a cult then battlefield earth is the greatest motion picture since citizen kane

    perusing the list of (generally valid) gripes that have been posted in response to oppenheimer's defense of the religious bona fides of scientology, i notice one rather obvious grievance has been left out: how can oppenheimer--purportedly a professional writer--claim that any religion is or is not a cult when he hasn't even bothered to define what ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by locdog on August 1, 2007

  • Cults of all Flavors

    There is no question that given sufficient thougt, any reasonable person will conclude that Scientology has morphed from a scam to a cult. It relies heavily on coercion, both overt and covert, to keep it's members in line and demands utter devotion from them to the exclusion of all other influences. Any relegious INSTITUTION, Catholic, Baptist, ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by jkevinm on August 1, 2007