[A respeito disto]
Is Cruise really so crazy? no blog.talkingphilosophy.com:
If you didn’t manage to see the leaked video of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology video before it was taken off YouTube, don’t worry: you know what to think about it already, don’t you? Scientology is barmy nonsense and Tom Cruise is its creepiest ambassador.
But hold on a moment. Just what is it that makes Scientology obvious nonsense and mainstream religions worthy of our respect, if not our devotion? If you watch the Cruise video (it is still here), you’ll struggle to find anything in it which doesn’t have its mirror image in Christianity.
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Christianity seems less batty than Scientology mainly because we are used to it. To a Martian, the stories of Genesis and the blood sacrifice of a God born of a virgin would seem no more sensible than Scientology’s tales of an alien called Xenu who populated the earth 75 million years ago.
If you didn’t manage to see the leaked video of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology video before it was taken off YouTube, don’t worry: you know what to think about it already, don’t you? Scientology is barmy nonsense and Tom Cruise is its creepiest ambassador.
But hold on a moment. Just what is it that makes Scientology obvious nonsense and mainstream religions worthy of our respect, if not our devotion? If you watch the Cruise video (it is still here), you’ll struggle to find anything in it which doesn’t have its mirror image in Christianity.
(...)
Christianity seems less batty than Scientology mainly because we are used to it. To a Martian, the stories of Genesis and the blood sacrifice of a God born of a virgin would seem no more sensible than Scientology’s tales of an alien called Xenu who populated the earth 75 million years ago.
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"Christianity seems less batty than Scientology mainly because we are used to it. To a Martian, the stories of Genesis and the blood sacrifice of a God born of a virgin would seem no more sensible than Scientology’s tales of an alien called Xenu who populated the earth 75 million years ago."
É isso: embustes. Também não é aceitável que se chame seita a religiões minoritárias.
Eu tenho uma teoria sobre a diferença entre "igrejas" e "seitas":
A "minha" (seja ela qual fôr) e as maiores ou mais antigas que ela são "igrejas"; as mais recentes e mais pequenas que a "minha" são "seitas".
Como diz o Dawkins, um cristão é um ateu da cientologia (e de todas as outras religiões).
«Eu tenho uma teoria sobre a diferença entre "igrejas" e "seitas":
A "minha" (seja ela qual fôr) e as maiores ou mais antigas que ela são "igrejas"; as mais recentes e mais pequenas que a "minha" são "seitas".»
Também penso assim. Em Portugal não tem a relevância que tem noutros países, mas sei que em França e na Suiça (depois de várias tragédias, suicídios em massa, refúgios com regras bizarras, etc) a luta dos governos contra as seitas é mto forte.
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