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."

Comments

Simpsons did it

[fatnicky]

Simpsons did it. Wait, no they didn't.

Tom Cruise and Scientology are nothing to shout about.

Re:Scary

[Anonymous Coward]

Britain is racist, racism by the majority is allowed only to be condemned when corporate sponsorship pulls out or trade relations are impacted.

A product of the soft society we live in.

Re:Scientology isn't a Religion

[drinkypoo]

Actually, no. Just "X", which is John 14:6.

I disagree. Christianity the religion, which is more than just the Old and New Testaments, states that in order to even be a Christian you must believe in the Holy Trinity, one of the tidbits decided upon by a conflicting council made up of leaders of various Christian sects at Nicea, under the influence and guidance of the not-yet-holy Roman empire.

As such, accepting Jesus as your personal savior is not enough for the Christian party line. You have to believe that he is three in one, that he is both fully human and fully divine, or else you're a heretic, and you're going to hell.

Your statement would have been right if the one you were responding to asserted that the Bible said you had to do a bunch of things. Unfortunately even when they read the bible, most people don't pay attention to it, and they rely on their preacher to tell them what it means. I don't think your god would have given you a brain if he didn't intend you to use it, but I guess it takes all kinds.

IBM, Sony, Apple, Oracle, Novell, ...

[SgtChaireBourne]

Hmm. Kind of like how you can criticize IBM, Sony, Apple, Oracle, or Novell, their behavior, ethics or their products, but anything other than praise for MS brings out all kinds of ad hominem attacks.

Re:It's only a matter of time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dinosaurs bones don't falsify any religion. If you did any research at all, you'd find that the so-called "scientific" methods used to estimate the age of artifacts, rock formations, fossils, etc. all differ greatly from one another. As an example, when "science" attempts to find the age of a piece of granite from the black hills of South Dakota, they have about 4 major methods of measuring. What they won't tell you, however, is that the age of the rock can differ as much as a billion years depending on which method they choose. Also, they won't tell you that these formations, which are supposedly billions of years old, are still releasing helium, which puts them at less than 10K years old.

Also, a little research will also show you that there are images of stegosaurs found in architecture from the last couple thousand years, before the discovery of dinosaur fossils in the 1800s. And the images are not of stegosaur bones, they are of the complete animal, and they look amazingly like what you'd find on a typical episode of "Walking with Dinosaurs" on the Discovery Channel.

That's the LORD you're talking about.

[the_REAL_sam]

Those "threatening" Christians are just trying to give you the advice you need to be in good grace with the LORD.

You'd better pay the LORD the respect he deserves. He gave you life, he's given you everything you have in life, and he could take it all away in the blink of an eye. He hasn't asked anything OF you, and yet you speak of HIM as if HE were the evil one. There's not a person in this world who could ever have given you more, not even your own parents, and, as they say in catholic mass, "it is right to give thanks and praise."

One day, you're going to have to answer for your sins. I'm not going to tell you that you have to accept salvation, since you might not. After all, Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian. If Judaeism is false religion then Jesus was a false prophet. On the other hand, if Judaeism is a true religion, then Christianity is optional.

That's how I see it, but Jesus still taught some very important and valuable things, and to ignore them would be a substantial mistake.

You speak as if Christians were threatening people with their faith, but if you took the time to examine the teachings of Christ, you'd see that they aren't asking you to do anything offensive:

(1) Love the LORD as much as you can.
(2) Love your neighbor as yourself.
(3) Keep the 10 commandments & the Law; live righteously.
(4) Love your enemy, always forgive, and return kindness in exchange for evil.
(5) Refrain from sexual immoralities.
(6) Help the poor and recognize that the love of money is the root of all evil.
(7) Give to those who ask; lend to those who ask; be a good samaritan for those in need.
(8) Don't go around thinking you're totally wise and all-knowing, or totally holier than your neighbor.
(9) Do not judge other people, and remain aware that whatever they're doing that is wrong, there was a time when you made your own mistakes, as well, and IF you've been living more righteously it's due to the LORD's own grace, and NOT b/c you're a better person than they are.
(10) Faith can move mountains, ask and you'll receive, knock and it will be opened to you. Think about that. Jesus raised Lazarus from the DEAD. The LORD parted the entire RED SEA for the Hebrews to walk that sea's floor.

Stop and think about the role prayer could play in your life if you'd give it a chance. The LORD is someone you WANT to be ON YOUR SIDE, and HE is kind, loving and helpful. He answers prayers, and helps those in need.

Now your claim is that Christians are trying to PUSH the idea that if you don't take their way you're going to hell, but look at their way, then mentally negate it and picture the life you'd be living if you did such a thing. It is clear to see, then, that the Christian way IS a good way.

Now ask yourself whether they're "threatening" you, or whether the LORD is threatening you, or whether by choosing against the LORD, it is you who are positioning yourself into the role of the unrighteous, unrepentant individual who richly deserves that punishment.

Choose well; choose wisely; pray BEFORE making your choices. Pray AFTER making your choices. Pray. Pray. Pray. Give thanks to the LORD when things go well for you, and count your blessings even if they aren't.