Comments:Germany's top officials seek to ban Scientology

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I can see where they are coming from but if people want to be scientologists let them, no one is forcing them to be scientologists, and I am fine with them being scientologists as long as they are peaceful and non-violent (although I would never be a scientologist). --Anonymous101 16:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

If someone wants to practice Scientology within the bounds of the law, that is their right, yes.

But this action is being taken against the organization, the Church of Scientology, and if the German government has evidence that they are doing naughty unconstitutional things, they have every right to ban the organization and prosecute the members who are involved with that kind of thing.

Singling out a specific member who was in the country for presumably non-Scientology-related reasons, however, is a little more questionable, unless he was also planning to do other naughty things under the Church of Scientology's direction while he was there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.88.255.139 (talk) 17:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

What is interesting about Scientology is they are making sincere efforts to place their members inside positions of power in government, look it up, they've attempted to infiltrate numerous US agencies in order to secure their status in America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.73.131 (talk) 18:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

scientologiests are no better than drug dealers, they get you hooked on bull when you 1st go in then keep you hooked using tricks, including getting you to leave your family! I see anything banning Scientology as a stop forward--18:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.82.106.28 (talk)

Sweet! Avoiding this junk is why NO country should grant religious worker visas. Nyarlathotep 00:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Any religion that was created due to a bet is laughable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.74.86.66 (talk) 02:56, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

The Greatest Show On The Internet

It may sound like a dull wacky cult, but I assure you... the deeper you dig, the more fun the events surrounding this group will provide. We're talking about nuclear physicists and Navy spooks breeding a putative Antichrist in a Caltech mansion, people taking confessions under a lie detector and their information stashed in secret files, poisonous snakes left in mailboxes, people breaking into the IRS to get their tax status fixed (and winning!), ships anchored in international waters with naughty cultists locked in the space where the anchor chain is drawn up into should they happen to move, spammed child porno appearing so the first anonymous remailer can get broken into, and it goes on and on. I'm not saying everything you read is true (who knows?) but it's glorious entertainment! Start here with the book they tried to suppress.[1] Safety First 07:26, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

This is bullshit. It's amazing how country's leaders try to CENSOR their citizens because THEY DONT WANT US GETTING TOO SMART NOW. They're finally realizing not everyone is a brainwashable Christian, and they don't like it!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.214.66 (talk) 09:05, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Just because you're not a Christian doesn't mean you can't be brainwashed. Actually, I also find the precedent of banning "religions" to be dangerous, but there's a difference between targeting a religion and an organization. If you want to become a Protestant or a Jain or a Wiccan you can look up the core principles of your new religion online and discuss your conversion for free. From what I've read, if you want to become a Scientologist, their "Tech" is copyrighted, and you're supposed to learn by taking "courses" costing up to tens of thousands of dollars. There are unsanctioned practitioners of the religion (basically an offshoot of 1950s psychology that carefully refrains from practices requiring licensing), but they act more or less in defiance of copyright law. While I think sharp fellows should have fairly wide latitude to separate fools from their money, there's only so much funny business - and so many criminal activities - that any government can be expected to put up with from an organization before it takes some kind of action. Safety First 17:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)