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Dear fellow Scientologists,
I think we need to confront and clarify some issues in order to be able to
fulfill our Code of a Scientologist of ...
"To teach Scientology at a level it can be understood an used by the
recipients."
In claiming that Scientology is a "religion", we run into serious
conflict when we try to proselytize to other members of other major religions
and churches ... which by the way, Christianity and Judiasm itself accounts
for 85% of the U.S. population.
In the 1998 What is Scientology book it says on page 529 ...
"Unlike some religions which believe that man is intrinsically evil,
Scientology believes man is basically good."
This in itself violates Christianity's concept that the serpant in Genesis
created a situation where man is evil until he is saved by accepting Jesus
into their hearts as savior. Yet I hear scientologists and PR still tell
people that they can still be a Christian in scientology.
On page 561 in the '98 WiS book, it goes into a more detailed analysis even
explaining why Scientology IS INCOMPATIBLE with Christianity. It says ...
"While the Scientology concept of the thetan may appear identical to the
Judeo-Christian concept of the soul, it it not; there are at least three
critical differences between the concepts."
Believe it or not, What is Scientology goes on to give THREE reasons why
scientology is NOT compatible with Christianity or Judism.
1) "One difference is that Scientologists believe that man also has two
other separate and independent parts: mind and body. And that these are
secondary to the thetan, which is considered to be the actual person
himself. In sum, the mind and body are vehicles through which the thetan
interacts with the material world.
Judeo-Christian religions do not hold this view. Although there is no
consistent description of man in the New Testiment, it essentially retains
the Hebrew teaching of unity of body and soul and that one is not complete
without the other: Just as one has a body, so one has a soul.
In Scientology, on the other hand, the individual himself IS the soul, or
more accurately, thetan."
Salvation in the Scientology religion is different, and much more
immediate."
When I first read this in the NEW '98 What is Scientology edition, I gasped
in incredulousness.
So knowing these complete incompatibilites above that we explicitly explain
(finally in honesty) in our own Catechism, how can we possible expect the
broad acceptance of Scientology as a religion by the 85% Christian
population?
Who is trying to fool us into thinking scientology is ever going to be well
thought of if it remains a conflicting religion among the 85%?
Our religion is completely incompatible with Christians and Jews. The
Miscaviage Church of Scientology, Inc even says so themselves! These
incompatibilities are thoroughly explained in the 3 specific examples above
in the WiS book.
So how can scientologists realistically expect to majorly dissiminate tech
for self-betterment when these major religions have been wiped out of the
"market."
Has nobody in senior management thought of this?
CONFLICTING DATA:
In the 93 edition of What is Scientology, our church says (on page 435) in
answer to the questions of "What does Scientology think of other
religions", it says the following ...
"Scientology does not conflict with other religions or other
religious practices."
According to the '98 edition, the '93 edition was a FLAT OUT LIE.
Peculiarly, this same question in the catechisms is mysteriously avoided in
our 1998 edition.
We KNOW that Scientology as a religion truly DOES conflict with other major
religions. So Scientologists must stop promoting the idea that one can
remain with their own church and still go to the Miscavige Church of
Scientology, Inc.
So the 60 million dollar question is ...
"How is the Miscavige Church of Scientology, Inc going to penetrate
Scientology tech into the majority of population with this major religious
barrier of conflict?"
What's the PROGRAM for this?
This is no light question and deserves very careful thought. If you haven't
started questioning management about this yet, isn't about time too?
Yours for know the truth,
(Recipient of the Scientologist "Kha Khan" Award and ARS
"SP 5" status.) :-)
P.S. I've got some ideas for a solution to this. But I want to hear
what the Public Relations of the Miscavige Church of Scientology, Inc.
says about this first. Robert? Care to answer my questions?
"Without an alternative to Scientology*, the people in it and the
tools and technology of the mind they have are sufficiently powerful that
it is feasible and possible it could end up controlling this planet."
(* Church of Scientology, Inc.)
-- Jack Horner (author of Summary of Scientology)
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous
of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily
defeat us."
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (Justice for 36 years)
"Freedom encompasses the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric,
the heretical, the unwelcome and provocative". "Freedom only
to speak inoffensively is not worth having."
-- Lord Justice Sedley
Scientologists: Work towards Freedom of Speech, Ban the Church of
Scientology Censorship Software now!
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From: theta88008@my-deja.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:39:36 -0800
Subject: Compatible with other religions?
Safe
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