They are not "pushing scientlogy." They wrote a letter of support to a group they felt was helping distraught firefighters, which had
links to scientology, and it inadvertantly ended up being used to raise funds. Lets be clear on that.
In any case, politicians routinely endorse organizations with strong links to religion, particulary Christianity. It is worth noting that many of the people who are getting their panties in a bunch about this are the same people who don't bat an eye when politicians support pro-Christian groups. It is blatent hypocrisy.
May I venture to ask what your point is, Tarantulas?
Tarantulas wrote:IIRC Scientology was invented by L. Ron Hubbard after many of his other inventions failed. I think it was Wayne Green who was telling the story of being at Hubbard's house when he came up with the idea for Scientology. You can search for it on the web and find a more accurate description, but basically it assumes that your mind is all screwed up and you need an expert to "clear" you. The treatments cost you money and do you no good at all. There is a science fiction component to it, since Hubbard was a scifi author. The back story talks about a guy named Xenu who murdered millions, and the souls of the dead are inhabiting your body right now.
Scientology is illegal in Germany if I'm not mistaken. And there are stories about people who oppose it and get followed and spied on and persecuted. Anyway, here's a website where you can read what an opponent says:
http://www.xenu.net/
And here's the official website:
http://www.scientology.org/
Heh.
Its funny to watch religious people decrying the absurdity of competing belief systems, when thier own delusion of choice is so patently ridiculous.
See Christianity: Take several non-eyewitness accounts of some obscure events, none of which even remotely agree with eachother, wait 300 years and have a convention of beauracrats in Nicea decide what should and should not be in the good book, rewrite them, expurgate stuff you don't like and make the texts homogeneous, still fail to make texts agree with eachother, sell it by force to all of Europe, kill millions in the process, stifle scientific inquiry for a thousand years, subjucate the native peoples of countless foreign shores, then preach brotherhood, while praying to a baby-killing homophobic egotist.
You cannot attack a politician for having tenuous links to a religious organization while turning a blind eye to Christian politicians who promote thier religious beliefs, and exploit the beliefs of others. That is why its so ridiculous to make a big deal about Schumer and Maloney's feeble - and possibly inadvertant - connections to scientology when other politicians constantly and blatently connect themselves to Christianity.
foxfyre wrote:It is interesting that there is no outrage here that a U.S. Senator seems to be pushing a religious belief. Would there be no exression of indignant offense if the Senator was Republican?
Your post would be better if a) it made sense b) it wasn't so patently hypocritical. Show me where Schumer or Maloney
pushes Scientology. Thanks.
