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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
When I stopped going to church, church going people thought much less of me, and let me know it in very aggressive ways. One person even told me I was ruining my life.
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Unless you went to the nuttiest catholic church ever with the nuttiest nutbars every in attendance what you saw as "very aggressive" is absolutely nothing compared to what scientology does. If someone
even went as far as tell you you were ruining your life you have absolutely nothing on what people leaving scientology go through. Please educate yourself and/or stop making ridiculous statements.
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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
Why do people choose religion as a vehicle to give money to the poor? Can we say one way or the other that religion makes providing for the less fortunate more effective?
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Its easy and convenient and well known. The support structure and organization is already in place. In your opinion, it may not be the best way to go about things and on that I would agree with you; but there are certain advantages.
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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
As far as differences between Catholicism and scientology, the most obvious one is that the Catholic church is much older. Beyond that, they both have had their share of ridiculousness/irrationality.
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You can knock the rationality of the dogma if you want... that's not really what we're discussing. The
behavior of the two churchs are wildly different.