Comments on: French Court Declares Scientology A Fraud

By: Jaques

Jaques — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:20:40 +0000

The reason they didn’t ban the Church of $cientology is that people could then demand the same for all other churches.

Slipperly slope here for Our Father in Heaven, Harold be Thy Name. You know, Jesus Harold Christ. His friends call him Harry.

By: Crazy Politico

Crazy Politico — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:34:27 +0000

James, some of us who are religious, and love the first amendment still find Scientology to be a rather good joke played by Mr. Hubbard on a lot of folks.

Seriously, if it weren’t for Scientology do you think Travolta would have played in Battlefield Earth? Please, the book was unreadable and the movie worse.

By: James Young

James Young — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:36:18 +0000

Of course, the court didn’t “declare[] Scientology a Fraud”; it convicted the church and/or its officers OF fraud. There is a distinction, and one that those who aren’t anti-religious bigots — or, at least, revere the First Amendment — would respect.

By: Vast

Vast — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:44:58 +0000

Wouldn’t it be funny if someone found an unpublished Hubbard book somewhere in which he admits that he setup Scientology as a practical joke.

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:41:15 +0000

If there’s an afterlife — and I don’t think there is — I would think that L. Ron Hubbard and P.T. Barnum are sitting somewhere, smoking cigars, and just laughing like hell about how stupid and gullible human being are.

By: Crazy Politico

Crazy Politico — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:15:10 +0000

I often wonder if L. Ron Hubbard laughs from the grave. Folks didn’t really buy his sci-fi books, but damn he got a bunch to buy into his religion.

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:06:14 +0000

Robes and golden chalices ?

By: Rob Miles

Rob Miles — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:17 +0000

I wonder what, in the French’s view, is the difference between the fraud of Scientology and the fraud of every other religion?