This started as one of my comments on one of the (more embarassing) scientology protest videos, delivered me a couple of comments on my profile, and got me to thinking what my real views on this subject are.

It is my intent to have a dialogue with all of you honestly, openly and with no personal malice or prejudice. Let's get this whole subject out in the open with everyone's thoughts and feelings so that we can look at it in the light of day and see if we can all evolve our understanding of the problems, the benefits, and each other.

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I am not wishing ill on those that protest an evil organisation, I am Ripping The Shit out of the mindless vegetoid slugs in this particular video who are devaluing and embarassing one of the most important social/internet phenomena of the 21st Century, which is a movement against a cult disguised as a religion.

I hold the same disgust toward scientology as I do toward judeo-christianity, which has delivered us the most violent century in ALL of human history, the 20th.

Whilst attacking the cult is commendable and to be wholeheartedly encouraged, the underlying social issues and problems created by consumerism and materialism that lead vast numbers of people to seek some kind of meaning in all manner of religions, cults and fads are being completely missed by everyone involved.

In many ways, the movement against scientology is the same type of beast as a religious cult, with the vegetoid masses signing up to feel part of something noble and larger than life.

So who do we blame for all of this? Well let's start with all of those organisations preaching religious tolerance. Religious tolerance has ALWAYS created a smokescreen for hideousness. It's about time that was said by the way.

What do we do about it? Remove the smokescreen of religious tolerance and all of the nastiness born from organised religion will suddenly spring into the light of day. Think about if *your* religion would survive such a removal of the Smokescreen of Religious Tolerance.

What about real spirtuality and the belief that under the cloak we are in fact divine and spirtual beings? People will always seek out this truth for themselves, as they have done for more than ten thousand years *without* the presence of corrupting religions and labels.

I'm not preaching existentialism. Since the industrial era rationalism and science have tried to remove the magic and the sheer weirdness of reality, yet all along every single one of us KNOWS from our own experiences that life isn't rational and reducible, that there is an ever present 'other' and irrationality to reality. In fact this is the brick wall that science has been banging its head against now for 50 years, the latest attempt at rationalism being to remove Time itself from the equations.

Let's move this to sift talk and get everyone's thoughts. If people want to attack scientology then they better be ready to face the really hard questions and the bigger picture.



In reply to this comment by QuadraPixel:
Then why do you wish such ill on those that protest an evil organization, that you have no association with?

In reply to this comment by Irishman:
As I said before Kommie, I'm an eschatologist, not a scientologist.

In reply to this comment by QuadraPixel:
Wow, now that's a little harsh, but not when it comes from a SCIENTOLOGIST.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Busted-for-Interbulating-a-scientology-party
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cult-of-Scientology-takes-over-Clearwater-Police-Dept

In reply to this comment by Irishman:
Personally I'd like to see every single person in that video joining a suicide death cult as soon as possible.