From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: A Call to True Scientologists
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Date: 8 Aug 91 23:21:44 GMT
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You describe a person who would lie to "save people from themselves"?
*sigh* I know someone moderately like this... It's not ethical, no
matter what rationalization/justification the guy uses, and if he was
really getting proper auditing the auditor should have caught it and
"handled" it.  Pity you didn't "turn him in" -- people remember the
unethical of a group longer then they remember the nice clerk who
mentioned something favorable about the same group. 

Re: Number of idiot-zealots.
Well, go looking up the number of fanatics (martyrs) that sprang up when
the XIan Church was setting up. Scientology is a rather "new" religion,
and the fanatics haven't gotten tired of it yet. And due to the tech
helping people be more effecient, they're *real effecient* obnoxious
fanatics! :-(

"Handle" you? Not with a ten-foot-pole, my friend! Explain that I think
you met what should be an atypical example (I would hope it is, but if
not, it should be), and ask you to not judge the religion by the
fanatics, maybe -- but I don't want you for a convert! :-) 

--Elizabeth
Disclaimer: I am but human, not even Clear, & my Word is not All.
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