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Pastimes : Scientology -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HG who wrote (1)	1/20/2003 10:44:09 PM
From: Frank Pembleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12

HG... I've only ever heard bad things about Scientology-- starting with the rock band Triumph. I was like, 15 years old, at one of their outdoor concerts in Toronto and between songs Rick Emmett gave the fans his views on exactly what his thoughts were of R. Hubbard...not good...strange actually...not good was the news piece in "60 Minutes" a few years back...yet, I find it strange major stars like Tom Cruise and John Travolta are members? Anyway, the girlfriend came home tonight, not with another book, but with audio cassettes -- Oh! I just can't wait... And about religion in general, Bill Bonner wrote something thought provoking in his Daily Reckoning newsletter – without going off-topic, here’s the excerpt: *** "It's good to see you here," said Père Marchand before Sunday's service. "This is unity Sunday, after all." Père Marchand knows we are not true French papists. We have been going to the little Catholic church in nearby Lathus for...what, could it be 7 years already?...but we never heard him express an opinion on Episcopalianism...until Sunday. "This is the day set aside by all churches - Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox alike - to pray for unity," Père Marchand began his sermon. "There is only one true church," he continued. Then, in his effort to promote religious harmony, the priest described how Episcopalians had gone astray: "King Henry the 8th of England wanted to divorce his wife, because she had borne him no child. Divorce was something that was not permitted, so he placed his own interests and his own desires ahead of the Christian community...ahead of his duty as a Christian and ahead of the Church itself...and had himself proclaimed as head of the new catholic, with a small c, Church of England... "And if you think about it, you realize that this was how all these breakaway religions were formed - by people who put their own beliefs and interests ahead of the one true church proclaimed by Jesus Christ...." ---- Thanks for stopping by, maybe next time we can discuss the word Science which is in the first part of the word Scientology and the crucifix that takes the place of the letter i -- an oxymoron? Regards, Frank P.