Heh...something obvious

[YankeyMCC]

but I always have this difficult to resist urge to point out blatant hypocrisy.

Apparently it is ok to poke fun at certain religions on DU but not others.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3484300&mesg_id=3484300

What makes scientology any more ridiculous than mormon or christianity in general for that matter?

[trotsky]

1. Hey, whaddya know.

Someone pointed it out. Wonder if it will register with anyone else.

[beam me up scottie]

2. I dare you to start a copycat thread

substituting the xian religion of your choice!
I'll help!

[beam me up scottie]

3. What a great sense of

humor DU'ers have as demonstrated in this similar thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=214&topic_id=21981&mesg_id=21988

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Damnit, I just couldn't resist ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3484300&mesg_id=3485526

[beam me up scottie]

5. I'm going to alert now

and scream for the thread to be deleted because somebody is making fun of christians!
Hmmmmm, I wonder what will happen...

[beam me up scottie]

6. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3485500

somebody beat us to it, let's help them out.

[onager]

7. I think I'll just...

:popcorn:

Is anybody else here old...

Er, does anybody else remember the huge $cientology wars back around 1995-96 in the Usenet group alt.religion.$cientology?

The bastids tried everything to shut that group down. One ISP owner posted a message about people dropping in on him, paying for accounts in cash, then disappearing until their thousands of spam-posts started showing up with his address attached.

At one point, the $ciento lawyer in L.A. wrote an e-mail threatening the entire government of China with legal action because some of their "sacred writings" were being hosted on a Chinese server. I think the Chinese govt. said "WTF" and ignored her.

Then The Clam Cult went after the Dutch free-lance writer Karen Spaink and her ISP, xs4all.

Big mistake. That landed the fools in a Dutch court. As I remember, that court eventually ruled that $cientology was a money-making scam and not a religion. (So did the German courts.)

At the end of the Dutch court case, they came out into the Amsterdam dusk to see their "sacred writings" being projected on the sides of buildings with overhead projectors.

:rofl:

[Book Lover]

8. OMG!

Yes, yes I do. Am I that old?

[onager]

9. Probably not.

But if a god existed, I would be older than it.

;-)

[progressoid]

10. Oh yeah, I remember the court ruling it a scam, but you remember

their Usenet group? Do ya have a special lobe in your brain for whacky info? :wow:

[onager]

11. Sometimes I wonder...

Yes, I think I do have such a lobe. Unfortunately I can't remember stuff like my own phone number or the movie I watched 2 nights ago...

However, a.r.s. wasn't really "their" group. But they sure tried to turn it into that, once they learned that victims/survivors of the cult were posting there. And they went ballistic about the "sacred writings" being posted. A lot of this is kinda fuzzy after all this time, but as I remember the Netcom ISP got hauled into court and lost a case about their Sacred Writings being hosted.

At the height of the madness, they even had sock-puppets posting to alt.atheism with pro-$cientology rants.

That didn't last long.

[beam me up scottie]

12. You'd BETTER be taking notes.

I want this terrible injustice documented.
DU has special rules protecting some religions but not the poor poor maligned scientologists.
Where is your COMPASSION ?

[Gelliebeans]

13. I showed up at the tail end of one of these threads

with a drink in my one hand and a pom pom in the other :rofl:

[beam me up scottie]

14. I'm damn glad to see ya, pom pom and all !

What a night !
"Why is bmus defending scientology?"

[Gelliebeans]

15. you aren't defending it dear friend

you are merely pointing out the hypocrisy and our new word for the week selective bashing.

on another note I am trying to find a good secular definition of a cult
because as I see it or read it that is how you would define them all

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/cult

[beam me up scottie]

16. Yes, that is exactly it.

Warren Stupidity is awesome, isn't he ?

[Gelliebeans]

17. am reading now

how atheism is a religion or as an another poster stated a belief system :eyes:

I am so glad everybody else knows how to define atheism for me.

Isn't that great :sarcasm:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3486629#3486768


on edit Warren deserves the trophy tonight for fast thinking against the projectionists (another new word) ha ha ha ha :rofl:

[beam me up scottie]

18. I wish I wasn't so tired...

Never stops, does it ?
No matter how many times it's explained...
and I'm offensive because I call religions cults?

[onager]

19. Just remember...

They ARE NOT a cult.

But we atheists ARE a belief system!


:P

[beam me up scottie]

22. Excellent, as long as

they keep thinking that they have us all figured out, they won't find out about the E.A.C.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. I said it elsewhere and I'll say it here:

Scientology is to other religions like Fred Phelps is to other Southern Baptists.

A difference in degree, actually, They're just MORE harmful and insane than most others.

[beam me up scottie]

21. I think the hypocrisy

was the point he was trying to make.
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