How to Share Your Faith Using Tom Cruise's Scientology Rant

Anonymous »

Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:19 pm Agree: 13   Disagree: 4

That's the thing though. We were not protesting beliefs at all. We were protesting the actions of the BUSINESS part of the Church. It wasn't about faith, but they turned it into a matter of faith when they accused us of protesting their beliefs and called us "bigots".
Believe me, there many documented cases of their misdeeds. You should look up "operation snow white," where they infiltrated the IRS, and somehow ended up with tax breaks that not even Christians or Jewish get! Or "operation freakout" where they harassed a critic named Paulette Cooper and tried to have her jailed for crimes she did not commit.
I don't think prayer alone is going to change the abusive way they conduct their business. But we do ask that you pray for us to be strong in standing up for what we believe is right.

How to Share Your Faith Using Tom Cruise's Scientology Rant

Anonymous »

Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:35 pm Agree: 19   Disagree: 6

That was a very nice article Jane. I think it is nice to encourage peaceful discussions about spirituality even if views on the matter differ.
The Church of Scientology does not seem to be open to being questioned though.
We recently protested the organization for some of their misdeeds (many of them well documented), and even though we made it clear to them that we were not protesting their beliefs, they proceeded to call us "bigots" and "hateful terrorists."
We tell them how Christians would not call us "bigots" if we were to protest if a priest had done something bad. I come from a devout Christian family and they were shocked that a "Church" would resort to such name calling just because we disagree with them!
It is still happening (it's all over the internet if you google scientology news), but we will protest them again on March 15th and it will be just as peaceful as the first protest.