Religion vs Cult

[Flow]

iclim4 said:

Soriku said:

Flow said:

Soriku said:
It seems ssj thinks "religions" are the beliefs made thousands of years ago while "cult" is a not-so-big religion and is something "new."

Now, can someone please tell me what Scientology is?

So, a long time ago there was this Planet, the galactic confederation or something, ruled by an evil emperor called Xenu. A beautiful day he decided his planet was overpopulated and loaded some airplanes with aliens and sent them to earth to kill them in the hawaii volcanoes.

And these aliens souls began to acend, but Xenu was ready and captured all these souls with big flying fridges and brainwashed them to believe Jesus, Buddha and stuff...

So these alien souls entered the body of the ancient homo sapiens and are causing us harm until today, the great scientology will be glad to help you get rid of these evil souls, called thetans, for a small weekly fee.

That's preety much it

lol, at first you were being sarcastic. Haha, that's pretty funny.

What is Christianity?

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father
can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and
telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil
force in your soul that is present in humanity because a woman-who was born from a rib-
was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree
-taken from Kazadoom's thread

People can spin almost anything in a bad light.
I appreciate the info flow but It would be better for someone more informed and less hostile about the subject to explain.

@ Soriku
Shame on you for instantly believing what other people say as truth.

 Only that the bible wasn't written by a sci-fi writer that said that the best way to get money is to make a religion (he died rich by the way). And that christianity don't require loads of money to join.

And no shame on soriku, for i spoke the truth. And now a more imparcial one:

Scientologists believe that seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having an average population of 178 billion.^[1][2][3] The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.

Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions^[1] of his citizens together under the pretense of tax inspections, then paralyzed them and froze them in a mixture of alcohol and glycol to capture their souls. The kidnapped populace was loaded into spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The appearance of these spacecraft would later be subconsciously expressed in the design of the Douglas DC-8, the only difference being the DC-8's jet turbines. When they had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously. Only a few aliens' physical bodies survived. Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars:

The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions^[7] of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, et cetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The interior decoration of "all modern theaters" is also said by Hubbard to be due to an unconscious recollection of Xenu's implants. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of personal identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.

Military officers loyal to the people finally overthrew Xenu and his renegades, and locked him away in a mountain, where he was imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery. Although the location of Xenu is sometimes said to be the Pyrenees on Earth, this is actually the location Hubbard gave elsewhere for an ancient "Martian report station."^[8] Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time.

 

 

Man, that cracks me up lol