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Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology
El Reg writes "Showing a new-found resolve to crack down on self-serving edits, Wikipedia has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology. According to Wikipedia administrators, this marks the first time such a high-profile organization has been banished for allegedly pushing its own agenda on the 'free encyclopedia anyone can edit.'"
Er, no. They have an excellent family culture as long as you adhere to 'Leave it to Beaver' cultural norms.
Kid misbehavin'? Send 'em for some re-edukashun.
Fags next door creeping you out by getting married and adopting unwanted children? Make sure their relationship is prevented from legal recognition and that their kids don't have the legal protections of married parents.
Pro family my ass. If they were truly pro-family then my family would present no threat to them. However as an organization they spent millions last year fighting against the right for myself and my husband's marriage to be recognized. That money could have been spent subsidizing all the kids in CA who will lose their health insurance now that our state budget is circling the drain. Instead of those millions being spent for something good like treating a kids asthma, diabetes, or leukemia, they spent it on divisive PR campaign to keep me a second class citizen. And don't even get me started on how 'pro-family' they are when their kids turn out to be gay.
Church leaders have lied cheated and stolen to support their agenda. The organization has a longstanding harrassment policy against it's detractors. They are extremely good at abusing the legal system to their ends and mostly getting away with it. Other groups most certainly do not come anywhere near the level of abuse that the Roman Catholic Church does
It's all the same, I'm not just singling out the Vatican. When you live beside a mushroom plant for most of your life, you forget about the smell. Scientology is just the new manure repository.
Is it better to believe in a religion that was made up by a man 1600, or 2000 years ago?
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Let me rephrase my earlier statement:
I abhor actions which damage society and uphold actions which cause benefit to society.
I do not say that all of Christianity is perfect, far from it in some cases, but it is clear to me that my particular congregation is based on a foundation of historical documented occurrences and a desire to help others, not a religion founded on books written by a scifi author.
Take your generalization and go away.
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Your response is so far from reasonable that I will only say this: You presume too much about what you think you know about me, my congregation, my faith, my willingness to receive thought out criticisms of the foundation of my faith, and the relevance of charitable works to my faith (doing charity is a vital aspect of my faith, and if you cared to actually learn about my faith instead of attacking me, you would know that).
Get out, get to know some of those who profess a faith in Christianity, and see that we are not "harangu[ing] some poor fellow who is down on his luck" but rather we are providing some meaning and hope to those who often have nothing in which to believe.
Ghah, I don't know why I bother. Too many "christians" have sullied the name of those who truly practice what Jesus taught, and nothing I say to you is going to change your bigoted and biased view of me, my congregation, and my faith.
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Can you please point me towards some historical documentation describing a sky fairy walking on water and pulling loaves and fishes out of thin air? I mean if somebody actually did those things you would have thought that every historian of the time would have written about it, wouldn't you? And please don't say "The Bible", which was written decades after those events were supposed to have happened.
I find it sad that in the 21st century people still cling on to these myths - why on earth do you think the christian myth is any more valid than the Viking or Greek mythology?