Erase a Branch of Religion

Shit... you're like... old and shit.

 

i've always wanted smoked jew for christmas dinner....

 

I'm torn between specific denominations. Either Southern Baptists or Evangelical Christians.

I was Evangelical for awhile, our youth pastor turned out to be a pedophile and I left. I've dabbled in many religions with all the same conclusion that it's all hypocrisy. Good in idea, but not in practice.

The Southern Baptist fire and brimstone attitude causes people to view everyone else outside their circle as "going to burn in hell" without all their own transgressions being realized. I've never been judged more harshly by a group than the Southern Baptists, simply because I prefer to be human and learn through my own experience. That faith is taking up a majority of the American Bible belt and it's obnoxious.

The Evangelicals have just gotten weird. You have to be engaged before you can date someone at my old church and if you do something they don't agree with you have to go up in front of the church and apologize for what you've done and swear that you'll never do it again. As time goes by and I hear more stories from my old church, it's turning out to be more like a cult.

I could say a million things on why I think Catholicism should be erased, but they've added so much to our history and to what Christianity has become that I can't entirely consider them a mistake of religion. I just can't stand their church and doctrines.

And this is all coming from a "Mormon", which I'm sure many people would love to erase, including parts of me at the present simply for their obnoxious behaviour towards gay marriage.

 

and the fact that i place mormonism and scientology in the same boat.

LOAD TORPEDOES!!

 

I don't count Scientology as a religion.

It's a damn cult.

Else I would've got rid of it too.

 

They are complete wackos.And the moneymaking system of it is an utter disgrace.Infact the whole thing is.

Its a shame because Ron Hubbard was really really clever.
I remember reading a psychology article article and I was blown away by how clever it was.Unfortunately it was written by Scientology.

 

Now you better not get into that kind of stuff!

Hubbard was a douche. I don't care if he was clever, I ain't complimenting him. :biggrin:

 

It's not like he took it seriously himself. From what I've understood, he made it to take stupid people's money -- capitalism at its best. Too bad he died before Hollywood started digging it and money started flowing in.

 

Yeah, he only started it to get peoples cash.

 

Mojo, yep prob very true.

Jai, it was actually an article on why people have a resistance to doing certain things that they think they should do.Sort of it explained why say salesmen lose the balls to pick up the phone and call customers etc.Establishing their deep rooted subconscious programming/how to alter it.Nothing to do with Scientology really- it just shows how sneaky the buggers are...

Don't worry I've no plans to have anything to do with Tom Cruises interests( Penelope Cruz excluded)

( Wonders how he'd look in a Thunderbirds style blue Scientology uniform..)

 

Hmm... Sounds freaky.
I still don't like the fella. Makes me think of Picard, only Picard was cool.

And I'm sure you'll look dashing. :tongue:

 

I might look a bit like an Air Hostess tho...

 

what is scienctology exactly? don't they believe in an alien or something as their god? :conehead: i only know that tom cruise really freaks me out.

 

It's basically just a cult.
You need to give them lots of money for anything there.

They believe humans were planted here by some alien overlord or something. I don't know the details.

 

I heard that Scientology believes there are aliens- good and bad.And their energy and our energy sort of interlinks.And we need to break free of negative energy.

Its not alot different to the idea of "the devil being in us all".And also that Phillip Pullman film when they go to the North Pole on a polar bear.

I'm sure there's sthg in a "theory of energy".
Its just a shame Scientology tries to twist it beyond recgonition and prey on/bully people who can't stand up to it.Altho anyone who bullies someone as annoying as Tom Cruise gets a thumbs up in my book...

 

What's so annoying about Tom Cruise?

 

He's short.He looks weird.he's a scientologist.
He's got a big mouth but never uses it to do anything worthwhile, other than support and mindcontrol cult of wackos.
He screws women way out of his annoying midget league.
He's a crap actor and completely unconvincing.

And gets all his jobs cos he's a Scientologist, no other reason.

Other than that, nothing at all..

 

Ah, jealousy.

 

haha..

but um.. yeah I don't like him either.

 

I only know him from movies and I'm rather fond of his acting in general. Perhaps you guys are too interested into his private life?