Just a follow-up to the Scientology post from a couple days ago (was going to put this in the comments, but recently discovered Haloscan "disappears" comments more than a couple months old if you don't pay them a monthly fee, the bastards....)
Anyhoo, I used to work with a whole passel of Scientologists in the early days of Earthlink (I was their first webmaster). I seen 'em up close. The ones who had been on drugs but "found religion" through Narcanon (basically a Scientology recruiting front) probably WERE better off than they had been. But it's as hard for me to say "Well if those beliefs work for you, that's great" when the foundations of those beliefs fly in the face of common sense and science -- whether it's the Scientology belief that we're composed of beings imprisoned in a giant Hawaiian vocano by the intergalactic overlord Xenu thousands of years before Hawaii is shown to have existed, or if it's fundamentalist Christians who insist man and dinasour walked the earth at the same time (which we all know they did, but only in the Land of the Lost).
If I were to believe in a god, it would have to be one who would smite such people -- in this world or the next -- for such willful stupidity.
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