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From: lachman@parc.xerox.com (Hans Lachman)
Subject: Re: Some views on Scientology
Message-ID: <1991Aug2.065903.11695@parc.xerox.com>
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References: <1991Jul24.140607.32251@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Jul24.233541.27713@math.ufl.edu> <1991Jul30.192744.32432@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1991 06:59:03 GMT

In article <1991Jul30.192744.32432@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> mauler@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <1991Jul24.233541.27713@math.ufl.edu>, sgc@math.ufl.edu (Scott G. Chastain) writes:
>> -Christianity and Scientology are not compatible.
>
>If all men are good, then why must all Scientologists pay so much to achieve
>enlightenment?
>Leo

As I posted before, the point about whether Man is innately good or bad is
moot if you are open minded enough to accept seemingly conflicting models
of reality.

But as to your question of why so much money is required, I have wondered
the same thing, which is why I posted the article "Can I join without
giving any money?".  The responses indicate that there are ways to be
a Scientologist on the cheap.  So maybe it's not the case at all that
Scientologists "must" pay so much to achieve enlightenment (but from
what I can tell, it certainly seems to be the "convention").

Hans Lachman
lachman@arisia.xerox.com