OK, rant time:
For years and years, whenever critics go after Scientology's corrupt, unethical practices, this old tired argument comes out:
[paraphrasing]
What utter and complete crapola! Replacing one noun with another totally changes the meaning of a sentence! That's grade-school English stuff! Hell, that's kindergarten stuff! And these folks supposedly have fabulous grammar skills thanks to KTL.
What if I said "Ted Bundy was a murderous scumbag", and you say "well, what if you replaced Ted Bundy with Mother Theresa! You must have hate in your heart." Anyone with any sort of sense would say that you are illogical and stupid. I wasn't talking about Mother Theresa, I was talking about Ted Bundy!
Same applies here. This "church" has defrauded thousands of people for millions of dollars, has enslaved hundreds of "faithful" in their RPFs, has destroyed families through their disconnection policies, and has been guilty of harrassment and far worse under "fair game".
To replace "Scientology" with "Judaism" or "Christianity" totally changes the meaning of the sentence. But that's what these propagandists are trying to do: apply subterfuge to their arguments and derail the topic at hand.
The pre-WWII anti-Jewish propaganda was manufactured by the Nazis out of nothing, and was basically scapegoating an entire ethnicity for their own failures to keep a nation solvent. The Jews were guilty of nothing, and paid a horrible price under a psychotic, sadistic regime.
Contrarily, Scientology's crimes are actual, verifiable facts, not some homespun nonsense. They have ruined lives, they have gone after people, they are responsible for deaths and fraud and all sorts of things! These are facts, people!
You can't hide behind word games, CoS. We're on to you.
For years and years, whenever critics go after Scientology's corrupt, unethical practices, this old tired argument comes out:
[paraphrasing]
What utter and complete crapola! Replacing one noun with another totally changes the meaning of a sentence! That's grade-school English stuff! Hell, that's kindergarten stuff! And these folks supposedly have fabulous grammar skills thanks to KTL.
What if I said "Ted Bundy was a murderous scumbag", and you say "well, what if you replaced Ted Bundy with Mother Theresa! You must have hate in your heart." Anyone with any sort of sense would say that you are illogical and stupid. I wasn't talking about Mother Theresa, I was talking about Ted Bundy!
Same applies here. This "church" has defrauded thousands of people for millions of dollars, has enslaved hundreds of "faithful" in their RPFs, has destroyed families through their disconnection policies, and has been guilty of harrassment and far worse under "fair game".
To replace "Scientology" with "Judaism" or "Christianity" totally changes the meaning of the sentence. But that's what these propagandists are trying to do: apply subterfuge to their arguments and derail the topic at hand.
The pre-WWII anti-Jewish propaganda was manufactured by the Nazis out of nothing, and was basically scapegoating an entire ethnicity for their own failures to keep a nation solvent. The Jews were guilty of nothing, and paid a horrible price under a psychotic, sadistic regime.
Contrarily, Scientology's crimes are actual, verifiable facts, not some homespun nonsense. They have ruined lives, they have gone after people, they are responsible for deaths and fraud and all sorts of things! These are facts, people!
You can't hide behind word games, CoS. We're on to you.
