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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
I think RozzingKing and Ezenden.... have a valid point. Everytime there is a new religion many following those before will not jump to the newer one and discredit it.
I'm a muslim, I would find it extremely hard, if not impossible, to jump ship as such because my faith in my religion is so strong. Maybe calling them a cult, or discrediting them for being a aggressive corporation is unfair (if you follow another religion that is) and instead we could say they are "misguided".
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I am not attacking the beliefs, I am attacking the church. Islam is a system of beliefs (that are in the public domain) with no single authority or single "bank account", if there is a privately owned mosque with radical preachers you could protest that without protesting the teachings of Islam as a whole. You can protest the actions of some catholic priests without being anti-catholic.
The teachings of scientology are copyrighted and you must spend a huge amount of money and assessed before you are given access to the higher teachings. They also claim to be an alternative to professional psychiatry and that you need not leave your previous religion to join.
They are a church when it suits them, a business when it suits them, and a pseudo-science when it suits them.