@balungaloaf:
no, my stance is some beliefs are way more rediculous and dumber than others. i dont hold all things equally, b/c sometimes its just silly to do so.
oh i forgot, we are all alien souls lost by an intergalatic king. we were set up around a volcano and got vaporized by hydrogen bombs 75 million years ago(funny how hydrogen bombs had just been invented when hubbard wrote this crap.) and now inhabit humans to give them souls. we feel bad b/c of thetons in our body. these need to be fixed occasionally. perhaps the intergalatic king just forgot about us, b/c he hasnt been back to get his lost souls. he should come back on his Dc-10 looking ship(funny that hubbard makes the ship look like a DC-10)
also, mormons think that native americans are a lost tribe of isreal. thats their belief jermo, and its not valid. they better have some proof to counter all the other knowledge of indians migrating over the land bridge. or some evidence to back their claim.
so jermo, not all beliefs are equal, and some arent valid at all. perhaps those people that worship the snake in conan the barbarian could use you as their spokesperson, so you can tell others that they cant make fun of the dumbest religion on the planent, b/c all beliefs “are no more valid than the next”……in that case, bring on the snake worshipers!
I’m sorry, it’s essentially all the same. Your beliefs are no more plausible than anyone else - though you think that because they are yours.
Religion deals with unknown, faith, upholding that which can’t be proven - there is no fact to prove it otherwise. It all depends on what you invest in it - it requires unquestioning loyalty. Therefore, the same.
I agree that the Scientology approach to the world is hard to swallow, but I say the same about the Catholic faith:
God manifested himself as his own son, born of a virgin mother, killed, resurrected (yet made it to heaven while living?) just so that you could be sinless and reach heaven as well - which is absurd that the creator/ruler of all things sacrificed himself for you to himself concerning supposed schemes that he created. And to reach heaven, you don’t necessarily have to do good, just admit your wrong doing, and EAT & DRINK the body of your lord-son-of-himself.
That doesn’t seem ridiculous to you? :?
