Pirate Pete spotted this … It looks like there’s an FSM symbol on the “$cientology i$ a $cam” sign. I don’t know any details about the protest. Anyone know? More pictures can be found here.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
I don’t see what the problem is here. We are supposed to be tollerant of all religions and belief systems, Right? So perhaps we should spend less time worrying about scientology, and more time loving our fellow man…
oh my god, i just read some of the hate mail and some of these people are off their rockers. I personally am christian though question my religion daily because of the lack of tangible answers in the world. Christians are supposed to be taught acceptance and understanding, kindness and the ability to forgive. I mean come on, people can believe what they want, why would you want to force your own beliefs on them? Spreading your beliefs does not mean “Oh hey lets go force feed people what i believe and see if they choke.” That makes about as much sense as the people who chew tobacco… “Hey Edd I have an Idea! Lets go chew on something with pieces of glass in it that was left out to dry with rats and probably has a substantial amount of rat shit in it!”
I mean come on guys… what the hell is up with the world now?
For too many years, religion has been given a free pass. And, to a large degree it still is. While I support a person’s right to believe a silly thing, I also believe in another person’s right to protest that silly thing. Would love to see more people stand up to belief in silly things…
Scientology…tsk tsk…as a vertebrate and inhabitant of Earth, I, like many other species, find the whole notion of humans arriving on Earth from space offensive. A Mexican walking fish sits at the top of my family tree…and I’m damn proud of it…
Gnocci Man and Cabin Boy Jon: You are both wrong, and apathy is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS trait.
I agree with Pontius Pirate when he says, “I support people’s rights to be Catholic, but I condemn the Inquisition.”
Its fine if you guys want to blaspheme against The Church of the Spaghetti Monster, thats your right, but the Cult of Scientology has something called the “Fair Game Policy”. To quote directly from the Scientology founder: enemies of the cult “May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
Scientology is not just a “funny religion”, its a CRIMINAL CULT, which poses serious threats to society. And the mentality of “Oh, Scientology is just one of many wack religions” is the same as seeing one single enemy soldier in war and thinking, “Well, theres so many more I’ll just let him pass by and kill whomever he wishes since I can’t kill the entire enemy army at once.” Look, theres shit tons of info available about how fucked up Scientology is. Join the resistance. When was the last time you protested something? Start taking stances! Educate yourself, and join the next worldwide protest on April 12th in a city near you.
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I was at the austin texas protest dressed in my pirate gear in support for his Noodly Goodness.
I think that this was his noodliness’s stamp of approval for protesting false gods rather than an organized protest of pastafarians. besides, where is the full pirate regalia?
There are protesters like this with posters and guy fox masks at every week’s Farmer’s Market here… Their main beef is that Scientology isn’t just a cult, it’s a rip-off. They want to arm people against a scam.
Anybody who says that they’re pushing their faith is ignorant. Look in all of the pictures. See anything that says, “convert”? No. It’s telling people that Scientology is dangerous because of the things it does, you can look up what their faith entails if you want. All they’re saying is to stay away, not to convert to pastafarianism, the one true faith. RAmen.
GOOD, IT IS ABOUT TIME! THEY ARE FOOLS AND MERE MORTALS!!!!
@Gandhi
I’ve seen apathy; I would be apathetic if I thought it didn’t matter, but I know it does. It isn’t apathy to say “Just Fu**ing learn to tolerate them already!” They certainly aren’t going to do anything but get stronger if you attack them–you’ll just get people to sympathise with them. Also starting out Project Chanology with Distributed Denial of Service attacks strikes me as being remarkably unethical…
I dislike Scientology, but thats going a bit too far.
Honestly, we can’t be selective with religious tolerance. Remember the eight “I’d really rather you didn’ts!”
RAmen
The Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything, so he must have created scientology for some unkown reason
hmmmm their seems to be pastafarians in annoymous wich means that they would not hack into our site but would support it
Fact is, that scientology does kill members of their own religion.
check out www.xenu.net
Anon fights!
Another wonderful bit of Scientology fact. They say that the ultimate reality will only be achieved after all people on Earth are removed of all their N-Grams or thetans or whatever the hell they are. problem is … there isn’t enough money on Earth to achieve this. So i ask you, what will scientologists do with those wh can;t afford it?
Kill them of course! Most. Dangerous. Cult. Ever.
I think my points before were misunderstood. I don’t have any respect for Scientology and think its a vile organisation BUT christianity and islam are a 1000 times worse. Scientology screws up 10’s maybe 100’s of lives these ‘main stream’ religions destroy millions. The organisations attacking scientology are often not beacons of reason, rationality and genereal nice people but often religious fundies who are far more of a problem
Silly ole’ Gnocci Man & Cabin Boy Jon, both of your rebuttals carry absolutely no weight whatsoever because they essentially restate your original posts which clearly were already countered and smashed. Gnocci Man: How is not supporting The Cult but not opposing them NOT apathetic towards them? Neutrality, or as you call it “tolerance” is the same as apathy. And if you wanna get semantic about it, just replace the word apathy with neutrality, and keep in mind that “You can’t be neutral on a moving train” -Howard Zinn. Cabin Boy Jon: See original post with the one soldier vs. entire enemy army metaphor. And to clarify my original message: I in no way support or, have ever claimed to support, any illegal or unethical attacks on The Cult (such as ddos attacks). In fact, I think the ddos attacks were extremely foolish, but that doesn’t take away from the truth of the message that anonymous is trying to get out. All I am saying is what harm could ever come from peaceful protests and knowledge disbursement???? Oh and heres a hilarious vid from the last protest in Houston with me in an impromptu drum circle at the beginning, lol: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LMsByKV2_Cc
I am new to fsm so forgive me for iconoclastic foibles. I have just digested some of the hate meal. Amazing how the longest, most agonized-over arguments for the existence of “God” are using the same rote, illogical writings from so-called christian scholars that have been around, and thoroughly discredited, for years. If one must attempt logic one aught to learn the “fundamentals” and test against real alternatives to evolution. But one must also learn the basic principles of the subject they attempt to condemn.
As a matter of fact, god isn’t. Doesn’t even qualify as theory. We understand this. They do not. We cannot remain polite against ignorance. All beliefs are not created equal and all do not deserve serious consideration.
This goes for scientology, which is not a parodic tome, and is worthy of as much scorn and ridicule as we can load on a plate.
To all the readers out there wondering about the protests:
Don’t believe everything you read (I realize you’re reading this). Scientology itself has been putting out propaganda regarding the Anonymous movement against the practices of the “church”. Let me say the following quite clearly:
Anonymous is NOT against the religion of Scientology. Anonymous is against the sneaky, evil, illegal, and underhanded actions taken by the so-called Church of Scientology.
I’ll stop here and provide any readers that come along with a a link to www.Xenu.net Want to know more? Google Lisa McPherson, project snow white, or operation freak-out. These are just a few real-world, documented accounts of the actions taken by the ‘church’ of Scientology.
Anonymous is protesting the tax-exempt status of a church that literally forces it’s members to pay them more and more money, to purchase their literature, all for the sake of learning more about them. No other religion operates this way (though many pyramid schemes and cults do). Anonymous first protested on the birthday of Lisa McPherson, to honor her death at their hands. Anonymous then went on to protest their tax-exempt status on March 10th, shortly after the birthday of late L. Ron Hubbard.
Anonymous is going to protest again on April 12th in Operation: Reconnect.
What is that about? Google ‘disconnection’ and the policies of the “church” of Scientology. Why does Anonymous cover faces and wear masks? Google the policies of ‘fair game’ and some of things L. Ron Hubbard suggests be done with so-called “suppressive persons”.
Want to join us? www.enturbulation.org Maybe together, we can make a difference and re-unite more families and prevent the tax-exempt “church” from stealing more money from unsuspecting followers and breaking up more familes.
Scientologists are allowed to believe whatever sillyness they want.
What they cannot do is:
- Mistreat members (lookup the SeaOrg) exscientologykids.org
- Ruin families (lookup Disconnection)
- Silence critics (lookup Fair Game)
- Bully the government for special Tax exempt status (Operation Snow White and ensuing lawsuits)
- Ruin Couches (look up Oprah reruns)