Havoc, I know it's a little hypocritical. I don't mind. Everyone is hypocritical sometimes. But come on. Xenu? Thetan levels? This is all based on fiction that some modern day writer has come up with. He wasn't a prophet. He was an author. I'm not even certain if
he took everything he was saying as fact. It makes me wonder if some random guy just took some of L. Ron Hubbard's fiction and turned it into a full-blown religion.
Besides, you're talking to the wrong person. I've explained (or at least implied) in this thread that, being a deist, I am much more skeptical and less literal when dealing with scripture. It's not like I would take the Bible and say "Oh. This version of the story is the right one and the Muslim one is wrong." or whatnot, and I wouldn't say that about the ridiculous statements in Scientology either. In other words, I don't draw my spirituality from writings; I draw it from worldly experience. Wrong person to criticize. Criticism denied.
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If anything, I would say the scientology story is more believeable then the christian story if only because it does not involve fatherly figures in blue skies and people walking on water...
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Havoc. Read this stuff. Even as an atheist, you know that there are different levels of "unbelievability" when it comes to religion. Scientology takes the cake. End of story.