XPost: alt.religion.scientology, alt.religion.unification   
   From: xenubarb@netscape.net   
      
   Pat wrote:   
   > Michael Pattinson wrote:   
   >> I do feel, however, that the amazingly huge momentum of Scientology's   
   >>  fraud in real life, affecting thousands and thousands of   
   >> good-hearted people, and its being exposed on the internet has given   
   >> rise to a karmic kind of response that came out of "nowhere" and may   
   >> go "somewhere" if if keeps up. It looks to me like a kind of "Mankind   
   >>  response" to a situation where a long-term world-wide Hubbard-   
   >> generated abscess needs to be healed. Who knows, maybe we are seeing   
   >> a new kind of justice arising from the ashes of the old one that   
   >> never worked? Only time will tell...   
   >   
   > huh?   
   >   
   > Scientology is still here. You think taking down a couple of internet   
   > sites for a couple of days will hurt a religion that has become   
   > established in over 160 countries in just 55 years?   
   >   
   > If I were you I'd be worried about what religion they'll go after   
   > next, since Scientology isn't the only one being attacked.   
   >   
   > Or is that what you want?   
   >   
   If it's another cult masquerading as a religion, no great loss.   
   If it's a cult that practices the same abuses and fraudulence employed   
   by Scientology, I say more power to them.   
      
   I can guarantee they'll never go after MY religion, lol!   
      
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