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Question: Would you boycott a business owned by a Scientologist?
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
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« on: February 22, 2008, 07:02:38 PM »

Yes.

In addition if I found out my kid had a Scientologist teacher I would call the school and demand that my kid be removed from that class and lead a campaign to have the teacher fired.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,043
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2008, 08:40:26 PM »

of course not. Their religious views, however dumb and misguided, don't deserve a boycott.

Keep in mind that by giving them money you're giving them more money to give back to your cult. So you are funding Scientology in a way.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,043
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2008, 02:33:06 AM »

Only if that individual was also involved in the church's more unscrupulous activities. If he was simply a member of the rank and file people who were gulled into it, then no. My beef with the Church of Scientology is how it treats its members and its critics - if they cleaned up their act like the Free Zone practitioners of Scientology they'd just be another group of religious people who follow something that was made up.

BRTD, the type of bigotry you endorse is harmful to the movement against Scientology. It gives them the ability to legitimately claim their religion, and not their organization and its practices, is being discriminated against.

But like I said, if you give money to a Scientologist, you are indirectly funding the organization. I don't want a penny of mine eventually finding its way back to that cult. That's the reason why. As for my kid being taught by a Scientologist, I don't want my kid's head being filled with that garbage.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,043
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2008, 06:33:50 PM »

If I'm bigoted then what's Germany? The government there monitors Scientology similar to minotoring of the mob and terrorist groups and might ban it.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,043
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2008, 09:04:58 PM »

Current German government != Nazi regime
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