Damn The Consequences
All things considered, I figure I’ve got nothing to lose. After all, talking about radical Christianity already has the Department of Homeland Security visiting my blog, so why not up the ante?
Once I finish the prayer series this week, I intend to do two series simultaneously. One on First John, verse by verse, and the other on Scientology, which quite frankly scares the hell right out of me.
Scientology has a reputation as being a litigious organization, and has a long history of dirty tricks against folks that speak out against their cult. This is an organization that presents itself as a religion, so I intended to hold it up to intense scrutiny in the light of inspired Scripture.
For some good resources check out this link. These guys have been driving the Scientologists nuts for years.
And while your at it, pray for me, because I’m going to need it. Scientologist have a long history of a practice called “dead agenting“, where there will engage in all sorts of harassment and lies in order to silence anyone critical of their “science-fiction” cult.
Allow me to quote them directly:
“The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.”
“A Manual on the Dissemination of Material” (first published in Ability, the Magazine of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY, 1955) Note: this paragraph has apparently been purged from later editions of the “Manual”
