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Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the scientology-and-shady-almost-synonyms-these-days dept.

stonyandcher writes to share that the Church of Scientology has come under fire for some items on their recently launched video channel. Most notably, claims have been leveled that dignitaries in one of their videos were faked and at least one of the people featured in the video is claiming their statements were taken out of context.

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  1. Re:The main issue is lying liars. by Abreu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most christian churches do not charge their members thousands of dollars on compulsive seminaries. Tithing is voluntary, last time I looked.

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  2. It is a cult/organized crime by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't give a fuck if you believe in Xenu or Jesus or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but the Church Scientology lies to and steals from it's 'believers', and does horrible psychological damages to people and their familes. No mainstream religion is remotely as corrupt and sadistic.

    Please read for a start:

    http://www.exscientologykids.com/

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  3. Re:Won't be the first time a religion did this. by damienl451 · · Score: 5, Informative

    No true. I'd say that the RCC is the exception, not the rule here. If I remember correctly, there is no eccleasiastical hierarchy in Islam, which already accounts for about 1.5 billion people. There is no formal hierarchy in Judaism either, and many Protestant denominations are also made up of autonomous local congregations that associate on a voluntary basis (e.g. the SBC in the US). Even those denominations that are more organized do not usually have a "central point of authority" as the Pope to Roman Catholics.

  4. Re:News for nerds. Stuff that matters. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article/topic is neither.

    Scientology and the Internet explains the history.

    In brief:
    - attacks on USENET involving forged rmgroups in 1995.
    - attacks on USENET involving Hipcrime-style spam for many years since then.
    - legal attacks that resulted in the compromise of every user of the anon.penet.fi anonymous remailer in 1996.
    - Angry about copyright term extensions? What we jokingly refer to as the 1998 Mickey Mouse Protection Act was passed into law as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. By a staggering coincidence, Sonny Bono was a Scilon.
    - Angry about the DMCA? The Mickey Moust Protection Act wasn't enough of a legal club, and guess who was one of the first organizations to use it in mid-1999?
    - And guess who was behind the DMCA attacks against Google in 2002.

    - And last but not least, guess who was behind the DMCA attack against Slashdot itself in 2001.

    Sorry you haven't been paying attention for the past decade, dude, but this is news for nerds, and it is stuff that matters.