Scientology

Lolipod_Distortion

I find it astounding that people can consider this a valid religion.

Saigyouji

Some people will believe anything. It's just that most of those anythings don't try and get people committed into asylums.

Gelzo

Frankly, I find it astounding that so many people consider any religion valid.

Super Lazuli

Scientology is the religion of fertilizer merchants, if you catch my drift.

Of course you could probably say the same about any organized religion.

Ponicalica

While you can find ridiculous things in just about any religion, Scientology is unique in several aspects:

1. It is even more ridiculous than most organized religions, having lines like "before planets were invented" and "before mass was invented"(And he didn't mean the Catholic communion). It literally reads like a bad science fiction novel.


2. It doesn't have tradition or the smaller vocabulary of ancient peoples to fall back on. It was the work of L. Ron Hubbard, who lived in the 20^th century and whom we have actual information on.


3. It used copyright to try to avoid the dissemination of that information. This is the sort of thing that pretty much hasn't been done since the medieval Church got mad at people printing Bibles in languages other than Latin.

snowbull

I love scientology for having an actually interesting cosmology. Thetans all the way!

Saigyouji

Thetans sounds too close to futons for me to take it seriously.

Lolipod_Distortion

Pretty much what funnyguts said.

Kraken

It's inherently ridiculous because it's pretty much the only "pure" science fictional-based religion.

Longfellow

I can't help but hear "thetan" in some 1940s continental accent.

Tnophelia

So is anyone going to mention Xenu yet?

Longfellow

Square should've made their RPG series called Xenusaga

Saigyouji

The spiritual successor to Xenugears?