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The CNN Belief Blog covers the faith angles of the day's biggest stories, from breaking news to politics to entertainment, fostering a global conversation about the role of religion and belief in readers' lives. It's edited by CNN's Daniel Burke with contributions from Eric Marrapodi and CNN's worldwide news gathering team.  |
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How disappointing to see Jason Lee mixed up with these lunatics.
Awww famous brainwashed cult loving people. What a life.
Just so you know THIS IS WHAT Scientologists believe: Lord Xenu from 75 million years ago, had a population problem in his confederation. So he stole the souls of billions of individuals and brought them to Earth which was then called Teegeeack. The souls (called thetans) were forced to watch 3D images about God, the Devil and other things. The souls were then released. They wandered around an entered the bodies of aliens. If your a scientology member you can pay thousands of dollars to have these thetans removed from your body. It also costs thousands of dollars to get to a high enough ranking that they reveal this "Doctrine" to you.
The stories about Lord Xenu were created from a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard who is the creator of Scientology. He wrote science fiction stories until he one day though "How can I write a story that will make a lot more money". That's when he created this "Religion" that he started to convey to his adoring fans.
Good explanation. You might want to mention the E-meter and its purpose too. The whole Malarky about "engrams" and such is really weird "pseudo-science". I hope that anyone who is considering joining this "church" will think twice before doing so.
It's no small wonder that Scientology has been banned in many countries.
I am amazed by what people will actually believe. I understand each religion has their share of eye-brow raising beliefs but at least they aren't believing a fiction writer and his very weird thoughts. I can't help but shake my head at seemingly intelligent people believing such a strange "religion".
Actually (I kid you not) Xenu's victims were supposedly brought (still in living bodies) to earth in spaceships that looked like DC-8s and dropped into volcanoes (the Hawiian volcanos iirc) and then nuked with H-bombs. Their souls were then subjected to all the described brainwashing.
If you wish to convey the true lunacy of this religion you must include all the details!
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Religion is so boring.
Omg, tell me about it. I keep saying, it's like being in a book club, and they talk about the SAME book at EVERY meeting. And you expect me to stay awake.....? On a Sunday....? Geez..
The logic of whorshipping our SUN is beyond arguement, calling it a GOD is illogical but nessesary to gain a following as to move the civilization past the moronic idea of god as its currently understood.
Oh my God can power a car so you have no need for earth based fuel. My God gives its power freely and to all creatures, we are stupid to not use it!
using the law of conservation of matter and energy, the energy given off by the sun simply transferrs to us thru food and warmth, but the whorshipping goes beyond that. if the planet when it is at its perihelion were even just a few hundred feet closer to mars we would be very cold all the time, if the planet when it is at its aphelion was closer to the sun by equal distance, very very hot. so everything points to the sun as the true life giving object to whorship if you were to whorship anything- logically speaking!
that's why i worship Amaterasu she gives life,.. and science supports it check it the greats moment of inlightenment in life is a sun rise its true in nearly all cultures even the bible talks about it
That´s the smartest effah answer I effah came up to... I´m contemplating to follow the trend... it´s worth it (I think) and it frees me from having sleepless nights at the computer figuring our what life and being alive is all about...
My dad used to say:- Life is no PuschOver... I and must convey that he was damn right.. I can freely say so cuzz I am 90 of any age... So here we go...
If we are dependant of our sun (and we are matter of factly) then so are other galaxies.. becuzz w/o a sun .. no galaxy can exist for any lenght of time in space.... We all perish in heat or we are frozen cold and dead.... which is different from being perished when we are nothing.... NOTHING at all... not even dust..
When I get cremated to dust... I am dust... That´s all that remains of me as a living dust-kicking hick-up animal... we all are.... animals... we are not vegitables... one of two living breeding species Our Lord "God" had in mind for "us" on his 6th Day of Creation.... (on his 7th Day he went back to his noodle shaping shed and created Steve (Jobs) t fiddle the next Almighty COMPUTER!... Oh Yes... He modelled Steve a buddy to invest in the CHIP and Microsoft.... and send the pair off to scratch their crummy noodle boxes.... ´Reason why NOW I see only Mac systems on CNN and other networks..
But to come to a conclusion why the "Church of Scxientololy" is such a lousy money gobbling brainwave is that:-
I am I and YOU are just you... and
Why we neffah effah MEET izzz
iWHY you will neffah effa be BEEOOTIFULL ...
while I AM...
From the GripeVine.... & Donah....//
Par Ardua ad Astra....
Prayer changes things.
Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!
It most certainly does not.
Prayer DOES changes things. It wastes time. It also makes you feel like you are doing something when in fact you are just talking to yourself.
Who says... ??
Your Sunday School Teach...???
I have a free desk in back of my class.... Donan.//
As a person with no dog in the fight I'm finding this most amusing! I'm sure if you all keep at each other's throats eventually you'll convince the other party that they're wrong and you're right! It's just a matter of time!!! Or you could give up this excercise in futility and do what I'm going to do. CLOSE THE COMPUTER, fill a cooler with some beers and noodle salad, hang out with my friends and family and have some fun on a rare day off!!!! I find the outdoors and verbal conversations stimulating. But I'm old and stupid.
I love people who appoint themselves as a sort of hall monitor of public forums. "Let's see if my words can stop people from arguing with each other because I want to be the authority figure and see if people will pay attention to me."
And with that – we ignore such idiots because the fact is the people who post this type of tripe are really aching to have a go at a discussion themselves but are afraid that they might not possess the wit to endure or contribute to the discussion.
A agree, "answer". There's something monumentally silly about a person who comes on an internet forum only to say that he's not interested and that he's leaving. It's even sillier that he believes we should be so impressed by him that we follow suit.
You may not realize this, but CNN is both nationwide and worldwide. Their audience extends beyond your town in Kansas. For some people, it is early in the morning and for others it is late at night. For me, there is no sun, it is extremely windy, downpouring, and there is enough lighting every minute to power your entire hillbilly town.
Most people do not want to go out and drink beer in the middle of a tropical storm just to celebrate July 4. If you do, you are either crazy or stupid.
If you learn anything from this, sir, please take away that not everybody on CNN lives in your little town.
What the hell is "noodle salad?" Is it the white trash equivalent of pasta salad?
@craven – "hang out with my friends and family " . . . uh, maybe. Are any of them voluptuous, scantily clad, and frisky as all get out? Is one of your family a pleasantly vodka-mangled Lindsay Lohan in a clothing-optional mood and a burning case of the hornies? Scarlett Johansson running around in her Lost In Translation panties? Some of Charlie Sheen's tiger blood smokin hotty goddesses on the mercury surfboard of love? Then I'm in.
But it they are 5' 2" in every direction and named "Jethro" and "Cleetis", forget it.
So, as someone with "no dog in this fight" your not an atheist, agnostic, or a believer then. How does that work exactly?
@ all replies:
Funny Sh!t... Reading the responses is like a Comedy Central Roast of Craven.
No beers in my cooler... just Lite Coke and ice cubes...
Tumblers and Canario Ron and Kentrucky hooch
follow me where effah I go.....
I am kepyt well fc.....
Donah..//
I quite enjoyed what Craven had to say and thought nothing silly or idiotic of it at all, so speak for yourselves Answer, Tallulah, and others. You know what indeed IS monumentally silly to a ridiculous point? Not getting online to post the fact that you aren't interested in responding...but getting on line and RESPONDING to a post about getting online to post the fact that you aren't interested in responding. Hi kettle, I'm pot.!
mmmmmmmmmm i loves the little boys. me and the pope have shared quite a few. delicious!
you steal a name and post filth
theft lying and murder are atheist virtues
to be mocked
Truth is never trolling
no one deserves to be mocked or bullied it shows character flaws in the one doing the mocking.
Yet the god of the bible both mocks and bullies. Bible believers just say that it's "good" and "just" and "loving," when he does it.
@moby
do youbt ever tire of being wrong?
@moby
Do you ever tire of being wrong?
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always encouraging to see people use their brains.
A rare and special occurrence for bippyfunk as using its brain has never been an option with it.
it's called using your frontal lobe. i know, you don't have one, so critical thinking is a mystery to you and a sin, but you should give it a shot. try making a decision based on logic. you won't regret it...
Don't forget Dr. Greg Graffin, frontman for Bad Religion, author of "Anarchy Evolution – Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God" and professor of evolutionary biology.
His PhD thesis "Monism, atheism, and the naturalist worldview: Perspectives from evolutionary biology" found that the overwhelming majority of the world's pre-eminent evolutionary biologists find no conflict between religion and science – as long as religion is recognized solely as a sociological adaptation.
anyone hear about the Canadian that minded its own F'n business?
You won't they can't help themselves from sticking their snotty noses in other peoples business
Somebody's jealous....
Rod, buddy, shut the fuck up! You are a disgrace to real Americans and I bet the real Rodney D would have had some unpleasant choice words for you. You better keep an eye out for any Raelians...
Somebody is stupid as fvck. CNN is not just for Americans. And religion is everybody's business.
Just so you know, "Dodney" is "Athism is not . . . ", "HeavenSent", "just sayin'", "hitchens", "common sense needed" (wonderful name for herself, by the way), "you might be an atheist if", "truth be told", and many more. Disregard her.
My sentiments for you religious tools..
Feel threatened from here on out til your dying days. It's glorious to see your religions falling and being stripped away.
religion is going the way of the dinosaur. adios!
Jesus' truth last for eternity.
Amen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCGP-0545EU&feature=player_embedded
Keep being lied to, America! Happy birthday, as you sink into the morass created by your fundamentalists and conservatives.
you attack America on the 4 th of July
He's criticizing fundamentalists and conservatives, not America, or can't you tell the difference?
I have no idea what that even means. What was created by fundamentalists and conservatives?
America was created by fundamentalists and conservatives.
america is always moving toward liberalism and away from conservationism. that's why women and blacks can vote.
you write se xist racist remarks on an anonymous blog
The vote should have always been available to all people as a God given right.
Prayer changes things
actions make change; prayer wastes valuable time.
battyfunk wastes time, prayer is a life altering experience
yes, prayer is life altering - if you consider all the useful things you may have accomplished if you had gotten up off your knees, went outside and actually gotten something done.
prayer = colossal waste of time
mediation is much better for you.
each time you read a bifferfunk post a few more brain cells are gone forever. End stupidity ban botterfunk posts.
it can have my seat on the plane.
my nephews are scared of me - for good reason.
you post filth on a prayer thread
Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!.
Woody Allen
Lance Armstrong
Robert Altman
Kevin Bacon
Javier Bardem
James Cameron
George Carlin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Noël Coward
Guillermo del Toro
Sergei Eisenstein
Peter Fonda
Jodie Foster
Bill Gates
Bob Geldof
Ernest Hemingway
Katharine Hepburn
John Huston
Diane Keaton
Gene Kelly
Keira Knightley
Richard Leakey
John Lennon
Stanley Kubrick
Burt Lancaster
Charles Laughton
John Landis
Bruce Lee
Seth MacFarlane
John Malkovich
Sir Ian McKellen
Jack Nicholson
Joaquin Phoenix
Brad Pitt
Daniel Radcliffe
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Gene Roddenberry
Ray Romano
Roberto Rossellini
Salman Rushdie
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
Don Siegel
Stellan Skarsgård
Steven Soderbergh
Pat Tillman (famous atheist in foxhole)
Emma Thompson
Paul Verhoeven
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Gene Wilder
Steve Wozniak
And that's not even the agnostics and skeptics!
there are a lot of dead guys on your list
@Hitchens
I'm curious as to whether you think your statement represents any sort of point or argument.
Most believers are now dead, dipsh!t – you must be a believer.
hard to use a brain or talent when you're dead. Take it from me, bookend or doorstop that's it !
LOL.All humans die, so your statement doesn't mean a thing.
What is pink, weighs 50 pounds and lays on the bottom of the ocean?
Ooops, @And now..., sorry if I took any of your limelight away by posting my list. I was working on it since last night to get it past the dang word filter and didn't check the whole page before I finally got it through!
(and you made it into list form - nice!)
always good to see people that have decided to use their brains.
Sad ... an entire list of the spiritually dead.
Check out the amazing accomplishments of Jews in 1/4% of 1% of the world's population.
christianity... scientology.... not much difference. both require you to believe ridiculous cr@p. both con their parishioners out of money. xenu... yahweh... what's the difference?
Bull sh it,filth and lies and on the 4th of July as well !
America..are you referring to your posts...
It is interesting how the people who seem to know the least about the history of this country, who seem to hate the consti.tutional freedoms of this country the most, always seem give themselves names like "America" and pretend to be patriots. Do they think that they are fooling anyone?
Our country's history was founded on God. Hence, why you phonies went out and established atheism as a religion.
Hello. Everyone is welcome to visit – thestarofkaduri.com
You call that a list of celebrities? I think the Catholics have them beat by a mile
Nicolas Cage, Adele, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Benicio Del Toro, Bill Murray, Bob Newhart, Brooke Shields, Carly Simon, Céline Dion, Cheech Marin, Colin Farrell, Dan Aykroyd ...
Have they all had a personal experience with "Xenu"? : /
Travolta did, but he is denying it.