Un-funny truth
Jun. 14th, 2006 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkI nearly didn't pass this on. On the one hand, I'm sure that almost everybody who reads this knows about this already, at least in general, if not the specific details.
On the other, what if there's somebody who doesn't? Who has no idea whatsoever? Only a few years back I had no clue myself, and it wasn't until I got curious and started searching the web that I discovered these events. So....
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
This is about Scientologists. This is NOT mocking their beliefs. Although I find their faith system to be both suspect and strange, if they wish to believe it, they are more than welcome to, and I have no right whatsover to mock them for it. (Okay, admittedly I've given in to the urge once or twice. How can you resist poking fun at Xenu? But it wasn't good or nice of me to do so!) I believe a few things that others sometimes find strange, so I really don't have any excuse. But a belief system gives you no right to perpetuate a crime. Saying that your faith believes murder is OK doesn't make it OK for you to murder somebody. Religion is no excuse for harming others, ever.
I'm far from a perfect person, but that's one thing I try never to do. My faith is not an excuse. My faith should never NEED to be an excuse, and if it ever causes me to do something that harms another person, or harms myself, then something is wrong. And since I believe that, I pass this along. Just in case...
On the other, what if there's somebody who doesn't? Who has no idea whatsoever? Only a few years back I had no clue myself, and it wasn't until I got curious and started searching the web that I discovered these events. So....
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
This is about Scientologists. This is NOT mocking their beliefs. Although I find their faith system to be both suspect and strange, if they wish to believe it, they are more than welcome to, and I have no right whatsover to mock them for it. (Okay, admittedly I've given in to the urge once or twice. How can you resist poking fun at Xenu? But it wasn't good or nice of me to do so!) I believe a few things that others sometimes find strange, so I really don't have any excuse. But a belief system gives you no right to perpetuate a crime. Saying that your faith believes murder is OK doesn't make it OK for you to murder somebody. Religion is no excuse for harming others, ever.
I'm far from a perfect person, but that's one thing I try never to do. My faith is not an excuse. My faith should never NEED to be an excuse, and if it ever causes me to do something that harms another person, or harms myself, then something is wrong. And since I believe that, I pass this along. Just in case...
