Flat worlders....
Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology
Anonymous asked this question on 8/6/2000:
when will you ever get away from believing the earth to be
flat...the questions here are designed to be provocative and
insinuate criminal activity without proof and without prejudice.
In all cases the questions are coming from a select group of
people whos designs are to destroy religions..I see their
questions on other boards as well. there is only one answer to
this..flat worlders unwilling to change their viewpoint at the
expense of the majority.. so who is the group that is anti
Scientology?
FreeZone gave this response on 8/6/2000:
I see 2 actual questions wrapped around the speech here,
so I'll try to answer them:
1: I don't believe in a flat earth and never have. Nor
anybody else on this board that I know of.
2: To be anti-Scientology is not to disagree with the
precepts and ideas of Scientology, still less is it to disagree
with the actions of a small group - in effect, of one person
- who claims ownership of Scientology and the right to
collect licensing fees from anyone, anywhere, who uses it.
I don't believe that Jesus was the incarnation of God. This
doesn't make me anti-Christian, it makes me a
non-Christian. I think that people like Fallwell and Robertson
show a near-obsession with emphasizing certain passages
in Leviticus denouncing homosexuality. At the same time
they totally ignore many other laws in Leviticus, on the
grounds that the Christian covenant (built on a universal
compassion quite invisible in their own principles)
supercedes the Mosaic covenant, except apparently where
they decide they like the Mosaic. That I see these people
as appalling hypocrites doesn't make me an anti-Christian
bigot, it merely means that I dislike one particular strain of
Christianity. From my viewpoint, even that is inaccurate;
more accurate would be to say that I reject a particular
strain of hypocrisy and bigotry that hides behind the label
of Christianity.
Going back to Scientology: does believing that the entire
subject is false automatically make one an
anti-Scientologist? No. Does believing that LRH liead about
his biography make you an anti-scientologist? He *did* lie,
but even if the evidence on this was ambiguous, the
subject stands or falls on its ideas and results, not LRH's
personal character. Does believing that the RTC is a
criminal organization make an anti-Scientologist? Of course
not - the RTC can claim to be Scientology, but that's just
one more lie, one among so many you barely notice it in the
crowd, unless you make a point of picking it out.
The true bigots, true anti-Scientologists, and true
opponents of freedom are those who, whether for their own
selfish ends or for 'your own good', would deny you the free
choice to practice or not practice Scientology. They would
deny you, in violation both of Scientology teachings and
the basic principles of freedom, the right to embrace and
use those aspects of Scientology that you agree with while
rejecting those you find to be wrong. They would even
demand that any person under their authority who happens
to find themselves reading and agreeing with this little
essay - or maybe just reading it - immediately perform the
doubt formula in order to rejoin their group. You won't find
such bigots here, but look around the next time you're on
LRH Way or in the Fort Harrison. They'll be all around you.
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