| Phendrana said: You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Do you even know anything about the church? You seem to think that just because it's labelled a religion, it's the same thing as Christianity. Let me ask you some questions though. Does the Catholic Church withold information until you spend thousands of dollars to "level up"? Do they force people to work full-time for $75 a week if they can't afford payments? Do they tell people they have to leave their families and friends and drop all contact? Do they demand their followers go off medications they need to remain mentally and physically healthy? Do they harass, threaten and frame people who speak out against them? Do they actively try to censor negative information about them? Want me to keep listing things the CoS has done? It's a business that acts like a cult to lure in, manipulate and extort weak (monumentally stupid) people. This is true whether you believe it or not. This isn't "conspiracy theory". Go look up information if you don't believe me. There are many first-hand accounts from people who have left the church and from people who have been targetted by the church. Videos, articles, the works. If you want I can even post a list of links. Well, in addition to the ones I've already posted and you've ignored. I'm really not even that passionate about this. It just annoys me when people argue about things they don't even know about without even listening to the people who actually do. At least look into this before opening your mouth. |
I am sure I have just as much knowledge of the Church as you do. If you re-read my post you'll find I didn't compare Christianity to Scientology, but merely illustrated how it must feel for devoted scientologists to have to suffer the indignity of a bunch of people protesting against their beliefs based on a few isolated incidents. To add insult to injury, the media grants broad one-sided coverage to these people who don't even have the balls to identify themselves and be held accountable for their opinions, primarily because a famous celebrity decided to criticise Brooke Shields' use of anti-depressents.
Tom Cruise believes in an absolutely fruity religion in my opinion, but at least he had the decency to defend his opinion in an open and honest manner. Project Chanology (the codename for Anonymous' campaign against the CoS) began in response to the CoS's request that Youtube remove a video CoS produced. They claimed that it was internet censorship, despite the fact that thousands of content creators have asked (successfully) that Youtube remove videos. They then proceeded to launch a campaign of prank calls and other ridiculous forms of harrassment to try and "impede CoS's internet-censorship efforts."
Whilst I would still take issue with many of the groups methods, my primary problem with Anonymous is their total lack of accountability. The last group of so-called "vigilanties" I can think of that tried to co-ordinate mass rallies targeted at a specific group of people whilst cloaked and masked was the KKK.
Lack of accountability is rarely a good thing.
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