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Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:22:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
> > James Brown wrote:
> > > 1:Except Scientology. Legal status aside, that is NOT a religion.
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> I heard a conspiracy theory once that Scientology is the result of a bet
> between Hubbard and Heinlein on who could build a bogus religion faster.
> Heinlein lost because the editors chopped too much from _Stranger in a Strange
> Land_.
I've heard that as well... I suspect it's an urban legend (or whatever the SF
equivalent is?), but only they know for sure, and I don't think they're
telling.
> See, here I go, bashing another religion; I'm just as arrogant as the next
> guy. Scientology is the only large religion which I take exceptional
> exception to, for many (IMHO) good reasons.
The Church of $cientology, as Hubbard set it up, is (also IMHO) seriously evil.
There are reputedly Scientologists that have divorced themselves from the Co$
and are decent people, but I haven't actually met one.
http://www.xenu.net/
What's your SP rating?
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) I've heard a version of this attributed to RAH himself, in a book that he at least had some control over, so I'd tend to give it some credence but who knows. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Mormon bashing again
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| (...) :-, (...) Yes, it was this more than anything else that got my goat. (...) Same here. There's a cliche for a Utah Mormon; e.g. "the Church is true, but even more so in Utah". I know a few induhviduals who have earnestly earned that title, but (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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