South Park vs. Thetans

[kandrathe]

Of course. But what's so baffling is that the apparent corollary is not true. People keep coming even when they have to pay. Nothing would make me more cynical of a "religion" than a demand that I cough up cash. Even a request is a little seedy.

Not that I need any more reasons not to be religious. But still, I'd figure more people at the bottom would catch on, thus eliminating the lucrative room at the top.

-Jester
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I get cynical when the church leaders are living in mansions, and driving luxury cars. Yeah, but just look around the world at what people get conned and convinced about and you need to be very afraid...

A fake Zimbabwean traditional healer has been found guilty of conning a businesswoman out of $30,000 to pay for "mermaids" to recover her stolen car.  The money was to have been used to import them from the UK, she claimed, and accommodate them in a local hotel.  Some of the money was to have been used to pay for a bull, whose genitals would supposedly help find the thief of her luxury vehicle.  Belief in animism is widespread in Zimbabwe, and across Africa.  There is a national association of traditional healers but the court found that Edina Chizema was not registered.  She had denied the charges of theft by false pretences but magistrate Sandra Nhau said she was not a credible witness.  Chizema had also asked for money to buy mobile phones to contact the mermaids and said she could solve the businesswoman's undisclosed "personal problems".  She is to be sentenced at a later date. -- BBC News Africa

... sure, people are gullible, but I might have drawn the line at the bull genitals. :blink: Scientology is entirely rational compared to some beliefs that are out there. Consider Heaven's Gate and the self castration, etc.