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People who trash Scientologists are sort of avoiding reality

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What, me worry?5/04/2011 8:45:25 am PDT

re: #22 Tigger2005

Really? That’s news to me. I can easily see differences among religions. It’s true they have more in common than most believers would be willing to admit but there are lots of differences in how they perceive the world, human nature, etc.

What information or insight has humankind gotten from God that it could not have figured out for itself? Honestly. Is even “love your enemies” THAT profound a revelation, that no mere human being could EVER possibly have come up with? Why is a “non-human source of love, mercy, justice and morality” a better or more authoritative source of these things than a human one? Why doesn’t God ever tell a believer something that scientists don’t know yet, that can be verified in the lab?

Note: I’m not a Scientologist, nor am I hostile to religion…I even work for a religious organization. But I have a questioning mind that I can’t shut off.

Of course it’s easy for anyone to see the differences in religious beliefs between Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism etc. There are differences that we can all recognize.

But the rest of your paragraph really spells out the point I was making. To an atheist/agnostic, it’s all pretty much BS where God is completely unnecessary. That there is no insight any human can’t figure out without God. That God is no better a source of love, mercy, morality than what one can figure on their own. And of course the big clincher, God cannot be proven so it doesn’t exist.

Yea, I know. I get you! I do! I’m not going to debate these points, however, because it’s an endless discussion that pretty much goes no where. I most likely couldn’t sway you over anyway.

Maybe I wasn’t real clear why WUB was bringing Scientology into the discussion - to compare with social conservatives. I guess I don’t see the connection or the influence in Scientology over politics.