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What is their to discuss? I hear Tom Cruise likes it.
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Stupid.
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 What is their to discuss? I hear Tom Cruise likes it.
Most obviously, Religion or Cult?
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Quote: from MushroomSatsujin at 8:06 pm on Feb. 8, 2010
What is their to discuss? I hear Tom Cruise likes it.
Most obviously, Religion or Cult?
tom cruise
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It's a cult that was create by a failed science-fiction writer who was looking to make a profit off of his work.
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they made a cool song out of that!
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One of the grad students in a seminar class I was in last semester did a pretty interesting research paper on Scientology and how it being labeled "fringe" is primarily a result in shifting social trends. Basically she argued that Scientology was the quintessentially American religion in the 1950s, which included a huge emphasis on secrecy, loyalty, and conspiracy thanks to prevailing Cold War sentiments. Now that mainstream American culture has shifted radically from this (particularly in the emphasis of freedom of information), Scientology is relegated to the fringe of NRMs.
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It is created for the scholar's analytic purposes by his imaginative acts
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Quote: from static nightmare at 9:36 pm on Feb. 9, 2010
Quote: from Wilder at 6:00 pm on Feb. 9, 2010
One of the grad students in a seminar class I was in last semester did a pretty interesting research paper on Scientology and how it being labeled "fringe" is primarily a result in shifting social trends. Basically she argued that Scientology was the quintessentially American religion in the 1950s, which included a huge emphasis on secrecy, loyalty, and conspiracy thanks to prevailing Cold War sentiments. Now that mainstream American culture has shifted radically from this (particularly in the emphasis of freedom of information), Scientology is relegated to the fringe of NRMs.
The CIA received many complaints about Scientology during the cold war that they were communists.
Ron Hubbard repeatedly gave the government lists of suspected communists within and outside of his organization and tried to cooperated with the government, but they rejected the group as a cult and potential threat. Hubbard's response was pretty hardcore.
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"Religion is solely the creation of the scholar's study.
It is created for the scholar's analytic purposes by his imaginative acts
of comparison and generalization."
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