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fubo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion.

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Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion.

fubo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    scientology is also a scam. they are the same. manipulation of people for money and power.

    the guy who created scientology was a sci fi writer who actually declared he was going to create a religion for monetary reasons, and then did so.

    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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      So it’s not a scam. Scientologists are just idiots.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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        it can, and is is for all religions, both.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    Yes, both are cults.

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    Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

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      Yes. They at least have an aurora of a scientific organization.

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        No, they don’t. Just because they have “scient” in the name doesn’t mean they have anything to do with science.

        • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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          … that’s the meanung of “aurora of…”

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        They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

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    see also: the 1964 southern strategy

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    Yes, with more idiots in the congregation.

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    I mean it’s also pretty damn religious too

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        That’s MTG, right? Who’s the jumpsuit guy?

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          • dan1101@lemm.ee
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            So, Greene hopped herself into the fake cage to fake pray with the fake inmate who committed real crimes in a fake fight against fake voter fraud aimed at discarding real and legitimate votes in order to keep America’s fakest real president in power.

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    Immigrants being roughly equivalent to thetans in their theology, yeah that checks out

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    Personally, I don’t really feel that scientology is particularly worse than other religions. So you could just say that Trump supporters are more religious than political, really. Though, I don’t think that’s unique to Trump supporters, really - modern politics really is a lot more like a sort of religious thing rather than about the actual policy for a lot of people.

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