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cherylpf
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 Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:45 Post subject: Quick Religious question
Real quick, and no discussion please, just a yep or nope...
Are Scientology (ala Tom Cruise) and Christian Scientist the same things? All this time I thought they were and all of the sudden I think they aren't. Yes or no? (no need to get into theology)
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:49 Post subject:
No clue. No clue whatsoever.
I just know that Tom is an interesting fellow. 
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:49 Post subject:
Not the same.
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:50 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | Not the same. |
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:53 Post subject:
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:54 Post subject:
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airehead
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:54 Post subject:
Differences? Similarities? For those of us with lazy?
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jrjo
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:55 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | someone's bored at work |
Maybe he's got an intern 
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 15:59 Post subject:
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someone's bored at work |
hardly. actually pretty busy today.
it only takes a second to google...
and I wish I had an intern....
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 16:02 Post subject:
both groups a kook cults
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 16:05 Post subject:
Not the same.
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 16:05 Post subject:
CS - Most illnesses, etc., can be healed by the individual or with fellow CSers, usually through prayer. M.B.Eddy placed her writings (I think the main one is called Science and the Keys to Health) on a par with the Bible.
Scientology - People can become their own gods going through different levels of consciousness (like Eastern religions). No Supreme Being, no Holy Trinity. They disregarded themselves as a religion until they realized they could use the tax laws (posing as a religion) to their financial advantage - this was in the 1950s or '60s).
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 16:06 Post subject:
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Differences? Similarities? For those of us with lazy? |
Scientologists I'm not so sure of, but I had a friend who was a CS growing up and he basically said that illnesses were considered "of God" and therefore medical treatment was denied.
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 16:10 Post subject:
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Maybe he's got an intern |
Clinton had an intern.... 
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Posted: 06/13/05 - 16:20 Post subject:
Thank you, and no need to discernt hem, the links are plenty, I just realized all this time I thought Tom Cruise was a Christian Scientist. oops?
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