Anonymous asked:
Why do you think people give Scientology so much more flack it seems than other religions? It seems strange to me considering Scientologists havent done any of the kind of atrocities traditional religions have in the past and even in the present with the Catholic Church having mass pedophile rings
argumate answered:
It’s probably a ratio thing, where they’re smaller in scale but higher concentration of crazy, plus of course old cults are grandfathered in.
Other religions trying to undermine the sovereignty of the state have existed before the modern nation-state. Other religions doing so also use more politics and less attacks on state personnel, at least in the modern era.
Also being fooled by Scientology is more questionable than being fooled by some religion that’s a thousand years old, which entire societies have been based on.
And, based on Scientology’s record to date, it’d do worse than Christianity did if it had existed when Christianity did.
