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Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years
destinyland writes "Friday police arrested 64-year-old Keith Henson. In 2000 after picketing a Scientology complex, he was arrested as a threat because of a joke Usenet post about "Tom Cruise Missiles." He fled to Canada after being found guilty of "interfering" with a religion, and spent the next 6 years living as a fugitive. Besides being a digital encryption and free speech advocate, he's one of the original Burr-Brown/Texas Instruments researchers and a co-founder of the Space Colony movement."
Is there even such a thing as a legitimate religion?
Like the 95% evangelical community I live among here in the Bible belt. Go ask those people, just like the rich powerful Scientologists, they whine that they're oppressed. Screw them.
In related news:
To avoid charges of "Interfering With a Religion", town leaders in East Cowfuck, Montana, (population 12,000) are advising their citizens to not slam the doors when the "boys in white shirts and black nametags" arrive on their doorsteps.
Mormon President and Profit...Prophet...Gordon B. Hinkley said, "Our armies of youth will crush...err...in 3, 2, 1...Our young men have a message of salvation, anyone refusing to hear it will be prosecuted under the Scientology Act of 2007 (with all due thanks to our benighted brethern of the Church of Scientology, aka The Whacked Out Followers of the False Prophet Tom)"
Hinkley added, "God requires you to vote for Mitt Romney, or He will punish America."
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Meh, it's California, land of PC. It'd be stupid to expect anything else.
Indeed... This just makes me want to unload the contents of my stomach upon someone. Any of you scientology fags care to volunteer to be the victim of my projectile vomit? Look at it this way, you could probably charge me with a hate crime, you could send me, a hateful heretic, to prison. That's got to make being covered in a half digested Village Inn Santa Fe Chicken Skillet worth it.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
"You do not know or understand the history of Christianity."
You're full of crap.
"that defined what Christianity is"
No. Christ defined what Christianity is. These councils and conclaves and Diets of Worms defined the power structure that they wished to leverage based on religious orthodoxy.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
There is insufficient scientific evidence to disprove many religions*. If you are basing your statements on scientific data and logical argument, you must allow that it is possible that some being created the universe and set up some rules for entry into heaven and guided some people to speak those rules. You must also allow that there may be no such supreme being. At least until we have further evidence one way or the other.
* Even if you could dispute some specific recorded happening of thousands of years ago that appears in some ancient religious text, you must consider that many ancient religious texts were understood as fiction or semi-fiction at the time of writing and thereafter, but are still illustrative of principles of the religion, and that does not mean that other (perhaps more supernatural) assertions of the religious are false.
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
The Guns of the South talks about the Civil War (specifically, some South Africans create a time machine to go back and provide the South with AK-47s) but doesn't do so in a manner that is historically accurate. Just because the Civil War happened doesn't mean that this work of fiction should be considered historically accurate.
And as an aside - the Israelis were slaves to the Pharoa (that looks mispelled) for how many years according to the Bible? Yet they're the only culture that has been enslaved for a period of that long and left NO archaelogical marks on Egypt, nor had any adoption of Yiddish/Hebrew into Egyptian, nor Egyptian insinuating itself into Hebrew?
Here's why: it's bullshit.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .