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Although I respect your beliefs and will support your right to belief accordingly, I don't see it that way. Although Scientology attempts to substitute for mysticism, it is more an ideology.
And mysticism is at odds with logic and reasoning.

Religion evolved over the ages from primitive ignorance, as a way to explain what people didn't understand.

But what sense does it make by asking a question, "Who created the Universe?" Then answering, "God created the Universe." Because then you must ask, "Well, then who created God." And the mystics cop out by saying, "No one created God, he just always was and always will be."

[DUH!]

Someone not afraid to question brainwashing activity, is not going to settle for such nonsense.

Instead, they will see the obvious inference, in that, since it is a scientific fact that you cannot actually destroy matter, only change it's form [for example, if you burn a piece of paper, it isn't destroyed, it merely changes into gas, carbon, heat and light energy]. Therefore, if you trace the origin of the paper on back, to trees, then to a seed combined with soil, rain and sunlight, then you must keep on tracing back all the elements, and find NO beginning.

Then common sense tells you it isn't any "god" that has always been and will always be, but MATTER that has always been and will always be.

Those who preach religion fall into three general categories:

1.) The brainwashed who feel a need to recruit others to their beliefs, in order to obtain approval and emotional support for it.

And

2.) Those who make money off of religion.

And

3.) Those whose power is derived from religion [like in Arab countries, or the Pope, or Pat Robertson, etc., etc.]


Religion is a BLIGHT UPON HUMANITY.

Responsible for countless wars, deaths, rapes, other crimes and misery beyond imagining.

Muslims fighting Christians, Muslims fighting Jews, Muslims fighting Hindus, Buddhists and other Muslims. Catholics against Protestants. Protestants against other Protestants. Etc., Etc. Etc.

John Lennon had it right, when he wrote his song, "IMAGINE [there's no heaven ...]."

Religion is also an instrument of oppression and subjugation. Particularly in Muslim countries, to keep women under control.

How many people would have been "persecuted for their beliefs" if NO ONE HAD ANY MYSTICAL BELIEFS WHATSOEVER?

How would people be towards each other if there was no animosity caused by "religious differences?"

And what if people did good deeds simply BECAUSE IT WAS A GOOD AND RIGHT THING TO DO?...

Instead of because they feared hell if they didn't, or they thought they would earn another "golden brick" in their "Mansion in the Sky?"

I have more respect for people who do good for no more reason than because they enjoy doing it.

Someone who believes religious mysticism has been HYPNOTIZED. Some hypnotized themselves without realizing it. Others were mesmerized by a slick-talking preacher. But most simply had it forced upon them when they were too young to realize what was going on.

For mysticism to take hold, delusion and illusion must occur.