[extropy-chat] Engineered Religion (was Atheism in decline)

[Joseph Bloch]

Samantha Atkins wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2005, at 3:03 PM, john-c-wright at sff.net wrote:
>
> No religion I know of, engineered or not,  has stayed under the 
> control of its founder or true to its initial vision.  Most of the 
> non-founders, especially after a generation or two, seem to enshroud, 
> mummify and dogmatize the form and lose touch with or never really 
> fully grasp the essence.  over time the layers of form even make the 
> essence much more difficult to obtain.


I don't have any first-hand knowledge of it, but wouldn't Scientology 
fall into this category? How has it strayed from L. Mother Hubbard's 
original vision?

Joseph

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