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Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking
eldavojohn writes "A formal complaint was filed in California (caged PDF) last week by John Lindstein naming David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology International as defendants. Lindstein claims that for sixteen years (from age 8) he was forced to work as a slave at Gold Base, a secret CoS site run by Golden Era Productions with 'razor wire, security guard patrols, surveillance posts, and three roll calls each day.' The pay was $50 a week. The allegations include 'Violations of wage and hour laws as well as unfair/illegal business practices actionable under California B&P 17200 Et. Seq.' and a complaint under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. Members of the group Anonymous praised the summons."
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Just to let you know, I'm one of those "religious" type people. I don't tell people to trust any man. In fact, I tell people to trust no man. All men fail at some point.
In fact, I would tell you that my faith actually makes the case that you can't trust men. But what do I know, I'm a religious nutjob.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I don't really care if it was light-hearted or not.
I don't either, nor did I address that point. Ever heard of gallows humor?
Associating the two followings, even through satire and jokes, only makes things worse.
Worse for who? People who can tell that Lord Xenu is made up, but can't figure out the same thing about Jehovah? You can't help everyone.
We all can agree that Scientology is bad. We all can't agree that Catholicism is bad.
You can't help everyone, I guess.
If we confuse the two, we end up with both in the end. If we focus on Scientology, we all are better off.
You are creating a false dichotomy; it is not at all clear that conflating the ridiculousness of the two essentially equivalent religions (both of which are synthetic religions which use and abuse their followers for the profit of their ruling class) will result in any kind of boost for either one, or that it will delay the demise of either. I would argue that by making the argument, you are lending Catholicism unwarranted legitimacy. Too much tolerance of logically fallacious ideas (like all these so-called Catholics who feel free to disagree with the pope) simply leads to more logically fallacious behavior... like that you're currently demonstrating.
You can focus on Scientology if you want. Don't try to tell me what to do. In addition, you're trying to turn your original comment into something it isn't. You asserted that the references to Catholicism in stories on Scientology were an attempt to lend legitimacy to Scientology, and I disagreed. That is all. You may continue to rant and rail irrelevantly, but you're not going to convince me that Catholicism is anything other than a cultish sect of Christianity led by a guy with a funny hat who isn't mentioned anywhere in the bible, which is further on its way out. Catholicism is circling the toilet bowl due to a combination of a batshit pope who says what's wrong with the world is an overabundance of demonic possession and the basic fact that the church is doing spectacularly less than it could do to stop raping young boys. I don't really see how you can say that Scientology is any crazier or any worse than that.
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A virgin birth is pretty easy to arrange, even with 2000 year old technology.
The hardest part is finding the virgin and a reason to do it..
I also don't think that leaders of major religions truly believe the shit they espouse. Fucking con artists the lot of them.