Yeah, I suppose letting people die of HIV that could've been avoided altogether by changing the line on condoms is somehow better than what scientology has done. I'd imagine more people have died in the past month from the church's evil stance on that issue than in the entirety of Scientology's history. I guess it could be argued that their intent is more benign, but if the direct and obvious consequences of your actions are more important than your intent.Rogue 9 wrote:To my knowledge, no current Christian faction has such a laundry list of crimes to its name, hence why Scientology is being targeted by Anonymous as opposed to, say, the Vatican.
Of course, there's also factions like the LRA, who in their desire to create a nation based on the 10 commandments routinely kidnap children, rape and torture them and then make them soldiers to achieve their own ends... shit, Scientology's got nothing on them.
That's not to say that a western man, a sci fi fan with a wife and kids and a stable income writing out a religious edict to shoot people to get an alien ghost off them, an edict he expected to be taken seriously in this society, day and age isn't "that" fucked up. I mean, with Hubbard's modern context, we can be sure that he was aware of enlightenment ideals, the sham of religion as a business and he was basically a modern man, unlike the primitive and superstitious authors of the bible. When we've got modern people like Hubbard demanding people be shot in his religion (or the Pope shooting his mouth off in suitably mendacious and archaic terms), I do find it more fucked up than the Bible telling me I shouldn't eat prawns.
Anyway, I would support similar actions to any organisational fronts to ideologies which inflict such misery on the world as the church of scientology, and I welcome actions that raise awareness to that end. It's all got to start somewhere.
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