Will i get into huge trouble for starting a religious cult?
360649
nope ..its perfectly legal and very lucrative.\n\nmake sure your heathens have total obedience.\nnothing is taken for granted.\nbe ready to meet your maker at any time.\nand always...always accept credit cards.
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I think it is messed up that they won't even tell you about these things until you have been a member of the religion for 15 years, donated massive amount of money and passed several "audits" before they will tell you this stuff.... They are just trying to keep you through what you have invested. Once you learn this stuff your choices are give up after giving so much and starting over with nothing or continue to believe because you may not be able to make it anywhere else that is a terrible way to have to come to believe something. It is also sad that you have to sign so many legal contracts because afterwards they can sue you for everything if you try to stand up against them. \nI am also strongly against celebrities being used to draw followers because this is just manipulation too. \nIf you want people to believe let them do so because they feel it is true and for no other reason.
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From what I know of the Mormons, it is a very real possibility when the right unstable moment arises.  Scientologists are harder to read.  The Mormons have amassed quite a fortune and power base to do most anything their imagination might come up with.  So far, they have been quiet and formed very successful communities, but what they are doing behind the scenes is a cause for some concern.
83679
It is absolutely a real entity! When the New World Order comes about, things will get terrible. Prejudice towards fundamental religions, particularly Christianity, will get really tough. Beware! (I am dead serious)
1058215
Don't do it. You are free from stupidity, and want to go back. Don't ask for that, enjoy thinking, and living by your rules. Stay away from religion.
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*chuckle*  Well, being without belief in The Devil, I'd say no, but if you'd like to know just how strange and dangerous Scientology is, check out these links:\n\nThis is what they believe in (including aliens):\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap8nVqpmRkLIn2rqXNPxlCEjzKIX?qid=20061124162841AAdJv3F\nThis is how they view birth (complete silence):\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061109120531AAVpKDj\nThis is how they sell their cult to others:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsRBlApM2mdSw7XfXIAgOqwjzKIX?qid=20061125081249AAPtMJV\nThis is how much it costs to involve yourself in their cult:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs\nWatch this short video (around 4 minutes long):\nhttp://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/\nAnd this one:\nhttp://theunfunnysequel.ytmnd.com/
990032
There is no RIGHT religion so dont worry.  Just be good and hope that karma wont get if your not so good.
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Isn't it amazing how little people know about our faith? You will hear a lot of anti-Mormon stuff from a lot of very ignorant people. Get used to it. Satan works very hard against the true church.\n\nDon't worry about your past. Through the atonement of Jesus Christ you can be completely forgiven! All you have to do is to repent and be baptised by one holding the authority to perform this ordinance.\n\nYou will indeed have some discussions with the missionaries so that you know all about what it means to be a follower of the saviour. They will probably require you to commit to follow the word of wisdom (give up smoking, drinking, tea and coffee) before your baptism, and of course you will be covenanting to live the law of chastity in future. Don't worry, they can advise you of everything you need to know.\n\nAnd don't worry; the boys in the church will love you for you. There is a great single adult programme, and your past will be washed away with your baptism. \n\nMy ten-year old daughter just told me to tell you "It's the best experience of your life and you'll never regret it". We are converts, and I have to say that is quite true. If you want me to help further, please feel free to write to me.
67320
Absolutely NO WAY! I could not do that because I am happy with my religion. I don't let people affect my decisions. I make my own. I hope you don't let this "someone" change your religion.
380329
Tell them you are going to begin practicing Scientology and that your new found religion doesn't allow you to have contact with any human other than Tom Cruise...
1085183
welcome to the club sister.  I don't think you have a problem at all.  I think that you are a free thinking and open minded person.  It's when you feel that pressure to conform and be like everyone else and resist it, that you truly begin to gain a greater perspective of reality.  I suggest you read "the herd" chapter from Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil".  This is the book in which the phrase was coined "God is dead".  Don't let that scare you.  What I think he really meant to teach was that organized religion and the God they invent is dead.  He challenges you, in the chapter entitled "the herd", to ask yourself if all these things that people are telling you that "God" has said are indeed from "God".  Or, are they something made up by leaders of church to influence the masses opinions to get a desired social result.  That result is control.  Don't let anyone but God control you.  He wouldn't force control on you.  He doesn't want to control you.  He offers suggestions and you choose freely.  To me though, all this damnation and hellfire are not products of Christ at all.  Christ is like the sweetest friend I have ever had.  I don't live right at all.  I have done bad things in my life.  Yet, he has never left me.  People, on the other hand, have behaved terribly...  and for that matter... so have I at times.  I decided that I would not be controlled by "the herd" either.  People will accuse you of rebellion.  Rebellion it may be, but against whom?  God?  I don't think so...  The "herd", definitely.  I had to separate myself from them, and while it is lonesome at times, it is at least free.  Knowing God should never feel like being in a social or political prison in which you are interrogated and punished.  They're like religious nazis and they have confused social control with God.  Welcome to freedom sister.  You may find groups that you "fit" with...  I never did.  This is the tragedy of the genuine individual.  Perhaps you should start your own "group" on yahoo groups.  If you do, let me know, and I will join.  This topic is certainly worthy of discussion.  Don't feel like you are alone.  There are many, many, people who have went through this...
363764
The twelve tribes are a cult. Please do not join them. Any group that specifys who their "leader" is, when it is not God, is a cult.
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Do not let these religious fanatics get you down.\nYou're a child of God....nobody gets special rights to this...not even Baptists.\nMove on with your life. Make friends. Love your neighbors. Adopt children. \nWhen it's all said and done, you will have lived a good life and loved many.\nThat's all that matters. The other stuff is just that...stuff born out of fear.\nYou're better than that.
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I'm not sure.\n\nOn the one hand, it seems taht once you rise to the top of the power structure, and worshipers are praising you and giving you money, you've got to be shrewd enough to realize that there is a good possiblity that it all isn't real.  For example I can't for a second imagine that the people at the very top of sceintology don't know it's all a big made-up scam.\n\nBut the other school of thought is that if you are doing something immoral, like benefiting from the religious faith of others and their money, your mind can't stand the guilt and a good way to rationalize what you are doing is to truly believe it yourself.  Sometimes the cult leader even takes the poison himself!
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You won't\n\nChristianity has had almost 2000 years experience in creating anti-pagan propoganda, and you will never compete with them.\n\nShow people that you are a good person, and don't make a big deal of your paganism unless they bring it up.
536120
yes, i think you and your sister should join the circus, however, i think it would be more profitable if you took the druggies with you. you guys could all dress up like clowns, cram in a little Volkswagen beetle, become religious and tour the country, beeping, honking, and preaching the WORD. if you join in the drugging spree, you guys could become a big, religious, stoned clown cult! can i join?????
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You may want to ask all the religious freaks around here