Scientologists beliveve that:
* Psychiatry and psychology are destructive fields which must be abolished.
* Spiritual beings ( thetans) live many lifetimes. Thetans lived among extraterrestrial cultures before becoming trapped in bodies on Earth. Thetans were brainwashed by these extraterrestrial cultures as a means of population control
* Thetans have existed for ???tens of trillions??? of years. During that time, thetans have been exposed to a vast number of traumatic incidents and have made a great many decisions that influence their present state. Thetans were conditioned by extraterrestrial dictatorships such as Helatrobus in an attempt to brainwash and control the population. These early events collectively are called "space opera."
* Xenu (sometimes Xemu) was the ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy." 75 million years ago Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and detonated hydrogen bombs in the volcanoes. The thetans then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to do this today. Isolating thetans and neutralizing their ill effects are neccesary.
Christians believe that night and day existed before the sun, the earth was flat; and the earth is just a few...thousand years old and.... dinosaurs therefore roamed in peoples' backyards.
If you have average IQ and you research more into religions; probably you want to convert to...alcoholism
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So far, Obama's faith-based progressivism has caused little liberal backlash. Professional secularists, such as Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, were immediately critical of Obama's faith-based speech: "They say the devil is in the details. When it comes to the faith-based initiative, I'd rather just let the devil have the details, along with the entire initiative." But liberal bloggers were more skeptical than angry. One called the faith-based initiative "creepy." This is more distaste than disdain.
Perhaps Obama is given leeway on this issue because of his own background and evident sincerity. To remove this element of his political approach would be to remove large chunks of his biography. As a Chicago community organizer, Obama saw the indispensable role of religious institutions in compassion and social change. And that example was a cause of his religious conversion. "So it's 1985," he explains, "and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. And I found that I recognized in these folks a part of myself. I learned that everyone's got a sacred story when you take the time to listen … And slowly, I came to realize that something was missing as well—that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. 'If you're organizing churches,' they said, 'it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while'."
His faith-based speech this week represents Obama at his best: creative, morally rooted and generous. It also represents American politics at its best—a belief in service and citizenship that genuinely transcends partisanship. Obama has embraced the faith-based initiative associated with Bush (though the senator disagrees with the president on the rights of groups that receive federal money to hire according to religious beliefs). John McCain, we should remember, has been a strong supporter of the AmeriCorps service program associated with Bill Clinton. Effective candidates, and effective presidents, adopt the best of the past and brand it as their own.
Gerson, a speechwriter and policy adviser to President Bush, is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a NEWSWEEK contributor.
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