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Gonna be in/around Oshawa, ON on Friday afternoon? Go see Tom Flynn
2008-04-03 07:31:00 In addition to speaking at the Centre For Inquiry (Toronto) on Friday evening, Tom Flynn of CFI Transnational will be speaking at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa from 2-4 PM. Flynn will be speaking on his upcoming publication The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. For a complete rundown of the event, click here ... More About: Afternoon , Gonna
Open Letter to Anonymous and Critics of Anonymous
2008-04-03 06:53:00 In a post entitled The Anonymous Group are Juvenile Bigots, Scandalous Candice accuses Anonymous of being, well, juvenile and bigoted, and also says that they should spend their time on more worthy causes (e.g., organized religion as a whole, the Bush Administration, etc.). She also accuses Anonymous of sending an anthrax-lookalike to a Cult of ... More About: Politics , Religion , Culture , Scientology , Open
Great protest strategy & background video re: Cult of Scientology
2008-04-03 04:49:00 This is a great 10-minute video. It focuses primarily on the how of the protest, and also shines light on the why. The quality of the video was very high, and the speaker is intoxicating to listen to. The message is valid, detailed and well-delivered. Very worth watching. Hat Tip: Enturbulation ... More About: Video , Religion , Strategy , Scientology , Cult
Beware of Dogma: Bob Jones University?s Biology for Christian Schools
2008-04-02 16:29:00 Page ONE of Ultra-Christian Bob Jones University ’s Biology for Christian Schools reads: (1) “‘Whatever the Bible says is so; whatever man says may or may not be so,’ is the only [position] a Christian can take . . . .” (2) “If [scientific] conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong, no matter how many ...
700+ protest Cult of Scientology in Moscow
2008-04-02 03:49:00 Interfax reports: More than 700 activists of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia), a youth group, were joined by students and lecturers of Moscow ’s Bauman State Technological University (MGTU) in a rally on Friday to demand that a Scientologist office located in the vicinity of MGTU be shut down. “Not so long ago, an organization emerged in the vicinity ... More About: Religion , Scientology , Cult , Protest
Tom Flynn in Toronto at Center For Inquiry, this Friday
2008-04-01 04:50:00 Centre for Inquiry’s CELEBRATION OF SCIENCE AND FREETHOUGHT ATHEISTS, HERETICS and UNBELIEVERS have fought at the forefront of every major civil rights movement of that last 300 years, including the Enlightenment, universal suffrage, abolitionism and minority civil rights. As the aggressive ‘New Atheists’ make headlines, the public tends to forget the legacy from which they stem. In celebration we present? TALES FROM ... More About: Toronto , Friday , Center , Flynn
THERE?S XENU!!
2008-03-31 18:00:00 Owned. For more on Scientology , click here. More About: Religion , Xenu
7chan accuses Cult of Scientology of attacking Epilepsy forum
2008-03-30 18:45:00 From 7chan: I would just like to discuss this nasty business about a terrible raid on a forum for the poor people who suffer from epilepsy. What happened there was terrible, and we feel deeply sorry for those affected. Users of this site did not actually attack those individuals. The Church of Scientology posted numerous threads across ... More About: Religion , Cult , Morality , Forum
Do US Scientologists receive tax breaks that no other US religionists recei
2008-03-30 08:19:00 A YouTuber is claiming that due to a secret agreement with the IRS Scientologists , to the exclusion of all other American religionists, receive tax deductions when they enrol their children in Scientology private schools. To read more on Scientology, click here. More About: Politics , Religion , Breaks
Texas Republicans Call for Revocation of Scientology?s Religious Status
2008-03-30 05:27:00 Texas Republicans have called to end the Cult of Scientology ’s status as a legitimate religion eligible for tax-exemption in the state of Texas. The grounds of the resolution are that 1) the cult has no statement of faith; 2) they offer no routinized worship services; and 3) rather than providing “church” services freely and openly, they ... More About: Politics , Religion , Texas
How *NOT* to Protest Scientology. Protesters Understandably Get Followed.
2008-03-30 03:01:00 I just read a blog post entitled Possible Fair Game in Vancouver at the VanCityAnon blog about how the blogger and some his friends got followed around Vancouver after picketing the cult’s Vancouver branch. The protesters were followed and then photographed probably more than halfway across the city from the “church”. And they completely brought it ... More About: Religion , Scientology , Protesters , Protest
Anonymous Boston Scientology Protester Being Fair Game?d, SPREAD THE WORD
2008-03-30 00:50:00 The following is a cut-and-paste from GlossLip: I keep reading more and more stories about members of Anonymous being tracked down, harassed, entrapped and incarcerated at the hands of the Church of Scientology . In some ways, this should come as no surprise based on the vicious and litigious history of the CoS, but in this day and ... More About: Religion , Culture , Boston , Word
Tory Christman on Scientology?s mafia-style distributed organized crime
2008-03-30 00:31:00 For more posts on Scientology , click here. More About: Crime , Style , Mafia , Magoo
Is Mainstream Science Dogmatic? (Repost from December)
2008-03-28 20:12:00 Given that the release of the crocumentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is right around the corner, and that its promotional team is showing the sorts of dogmatism that it is accusing the mainstream scientific community (or, “Big Science ”) of (e.g., by expelling prominent critic, PZ Myers from a screening, attempting to bribe Christian schools to force their ... More About: Intelligent Design , Politics , Religion , Christianity
Wise Beard Man?s EPIC 100th YouTube Video! WIN!
2008-03-28 19:11:00 To read more posts on Scientology , click here. More About: Video , Religion , Youtube , Anonymous
An MD speaks about how Scientology impeded his ability to provide healthcar
2008-03-28 18:14:00 In Just another cult, PalMD of The Denialism Blog on ScienceBlogs writes about a case in which a young lady who had fallen deep into the depths of acute schizophrenic psychosis because her parents were Scientologists who had fallen hook line and sinker for the cult’s anti-Psychiatry rhetoric. Having been denied access to medical treatment ... More About: Scientology
Reader: It is unlikely that Mary DeMoss has left Scientology
2008-03-28 17:38:00 In response to my post celebrating the departure of Mary DeMoss from the Cult of Scientology , I received this comment from reader Fredric L. Price of anti-Narconon website CrackPots.Org [parentheses mine]: “There?s no evidence that Mary DeMoss has blown. In fact she?s still spam flooding the a.r.s [Alt.Religion .Scientology] newsgroup so it?s unlikely that she?s blown.” I’ll keep on ... More About: Reader , Left
Video proof that Anonymous is a TERRORIST organization
2008-03-28 08:11:00 For more posts on Scientology , click here. More About: Video , Religion , Organization , Proof
L. Ron Hubbard: ?There was no Christ?
2008-03-28 07:55:00 See, he wasn’t completely crazy. But whenever a Scientologist tells you that Scientology is compatible with Christ ianity, no, it’s not. It’s infallible prophet (pronounced /prof-it/) flat out denies Christ. More About: Religion , Ron Hubbard , L Ron Hubbard
Cult of Scientology exposes identity of Anonymous protester
2008-03-28 07:22:00 About a week ago the Cult of Scientology released a video which was soon pulled down from YouTube which revealed the identity of a number of the Anonymous protesters, as well as some of their personal information—address and contact info, I believe. In Anonymous speak, some say that these protesters have been Fair Game‘d. Here ... More About: Religion , Los Angeles
Summary of Geert Wilders? anti-Qur?an film Fitna (SPOILER ALERT)
2008-03-28 05:12:00 This review will largely be a summary of the film. I will make some appraisals, but because I am by no means an expert on the Qur’an or the domestic and international relations history of the Islam ic world, I do not feel sufficiently informed to make a great deal of value judgments. Picture of Geert ... More About: Politics , Religion , Film , Koran
Dutch MP Geert Wilders? anti-Islam film, Fitna, HERE
2008-03-28 03:12:00 View Netherlands MP Geert Wilders’ newly-released anti-Islam film Fitna here. Wilders’ name has been popping up rather frequently over the past few months, as he is a very vocal critic of Islam. He has gone so far as to press for the banning of the Koran in the Netherlands, saying that it is in conflict ... More About: Politics , Religion , Culture , Film
Tomorrow: LIVE media tele-conference with Ben Stein and producers of Expell
2008-03-28 02:16:00 Here is a cut-and-paste from an email I just received: JOIN BEN STEIN TOMORROW, Friday, March 28 at 1:00 pm. PST for an exclusive, invitation-only LIVE press teleconference! Hear Ben Stein LIVE as he talks to you and other members of media, answering your questions about his upcoming, highly-controversial movie, EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Hear why leaders like Dr. ... More About: Intelligent Design , Science , Politics , Atheism , Religion
The FAIL Blog. AMAZING!
2008-03-28 01:46:00 Everyone check out The FAIL Blog . I actually kind of want one of the T-Shirts they sell… More About: Fun , Amazing
Tory Christman on Shawn Lonsdale, Scientologist deaths, and how the Cult sw
2008-03-28 01:21:00 First, introductions. Tory Christman is a former Scientologist of 30 years who achieved the second highest educational level in Scientology: Operating Thetan level 7 (or, OT7). Around Y2K she abruptly severed her ties with the cult (or “blew”, in Scientology speak), and almost immediately after became one of the cult’s most vocal critics, joining the ... More About: Religion , Cult , Deaths , The Cult
Cult of Scientology Crimes in Canada
2008-03-27 20:16:00 From AnonymousToronto.Org: “Between 1974 and 1976, Scientologists secured employment with government agencies perceived to be enemies of the Church, and signed oaths of secrecy as public officials. In breach of their oaths of office, they then took copies of confidential documents from the agencies that employed them and provided them to the Church of Scientology of ... More About: Canada , Cult , Crimes
PZ Myers EXPELLED from Expelled!?!?
2008-03-23 01:10:00 A number of blogs have already commented on this unsurprising bit of irony: the makers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (an upcoming Intelligent Design /Creationist crocumentary attempting to cast mainstream science - and evolutionary science in particular - as a dogmatic and somewhat totalitarianesque regime, to misrepresent evolutionary biology and the research behind it, and to ... More About: Science , Politics , Religion , Culture
Write Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Boycott Mexico to get Brenda Martin
2008-03-19 16:47:00 I hope that readers will join in and write Prime Minister Stephen Harper (pm@pm.gc.ca) and encourage people to boycott travel to Mexico and the purchase of Mexican products until Brenda Martin is released from her unjust Mexican imprisonment, receives a sincere public apology from the Mexican government, and a multi-million dollar payment as an attempt at ... More About: News , Write
Russian Protestant and Muslim groups want cartoon channel shutdown for airi
2008-03-19 05:37:00 CBC reports that Russian Protestant and Muslim groups are calling for the shutting down of a Russian cartoon channel, 2X2, for airing programs such as South Park , which these groups have deemed to be anti-religious and to promote homosexuality. 2X2 is standing its ground. A spokesperson responded to the demands by pointing out that Russia is a secular ... More About: Cartoon , Religion , Culture
Am I the only atheist blogger blogging about the Cult of Scientology?
More articles from this author:2008-03-19 04:24:00 In my experience on the atheosphere, bloggers have been pretty quick to stand against injustices done in the name of religion. Well right now we have an international cult masquerading as a religion* in order to get tax-exempt status, escape numerous external investigations, and now to be able to label those who oppose them as ... More About: Religion , Blogger , Scientology , Blogging , Cult 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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