From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 20:31:42 MDT
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 11:20 PM, Olga Bourlin wrote:
> From: "Christopher Whipple" <crw@well.com>
>
>> Those of us who are quick to deride religion must keep in mind that
>> some
>> people view the Extropian principles as the structure of a
>> "techno-futurist"
>> religion. That was the impression of a friend of mine who I had
>> asked to
>> read them. I'm sure there are threads in the archive regarding
>> Extropianism's status (or lack thereof) of being a religion.
>
> A religion was formed around a jazz musician (John Coltrane), and in
> Portland, Oregon, there's a Church of Elvis (they don't speak in
> tongues
> there, but plant theirs firmly in cheek). Then there's "Scientology"
> (what's that supposed to mean?).
>
So very funny that you would bring Scientology into the mix. My mother
has recently unearthed an old question/answer bit of homework from
grade school - I was around 8 years old at the time. The question was
something like "what religion do you think is most likely to be true?"
and my reply was something like "I'm not sure, but Scientology sounds
as close as we can get."
This coming from someone who had no clue what Scientology's all about,
only knew the name - but was old enough to know that "being different
is good" and that most everyone else would be saying Christianity
because of all these reasons our parents taught us.
Needless to say, growing up to find out the truth about Scientology, I
was very disappointed.
The incident above also makes me wonder if grade school teachers
consciously give their students bizarre assignments for sociological
study purposes.
-crw.
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