re: #302 marjoriemoon

I suppose to an atheist, one man’s cult is another man’s religion. As a religious person, I don’t know how to argue that, but the idea of cloaking the seeking of the divine or spirituality, or to try to understand that which is beyond the physical, or to deny the 1000s of years of scholars who have devoted their lives to such pursuits as mere cultism is pretty naive. Maybe naive isn’t the right word. Short-sighted? shallow?

I’m assuming you think I am the one who is naive, but I’ll still believe the scholars.

First of all, you tried to claim that Scientology is not a religion at all because it doesn’t have ancient texts and what not.

Second, I never used the word “cultism”. From the point of view of accordance of religion to reality all religions fail. It really is equally ridiculous to believe in virgin birth, parting of the red sea and body thetans. No amount of scholars spilling their ink will make it otherwise.