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A Russian court has ruled that the Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology should be dissolved.
The Moscow city court accepted the arguments of Russia's justice ministry that as the term "Scientology" is a registered US trademark, the Church cannot be considered a religious organisation.
The organisation plans to appeal, reports said.
The controversial church is based in Los Angeles, California and was found in 1954 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
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Russian Court has Ruled the Church of Scientology Should be Dissolved
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday November 26 2015, @06:20AM
As I recall, Mark Twain called Mormonism a combination of Christian and Freemasonry, but I can't find the quotation. However, he did say this:
Both Mormonism and the alleged Christian Science are equally ridiculous IMHO, but people can believe whatever they want to believe so long as they don't try to push their religious delusions upon me.
Now, if Mark Twain were alive today he would have a field day with Scientology. He was always trying to find a way to make a fortune. He's probably spinning in his grave regretting that he didn't think of doing what L. Ron Hubbard did and create his own religion to become rich.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 26 2015, @01:36PM
There is actually some truth to that. When the olympics came to salt lake city there was something that caught my eye that looked masonic, so I investigated and found some interestingconnections between joseph smith and freemasonry. Joseph smith was a young teenager in the area in upstate new york where the captain morgan affair occurred. After that a wave of anti-masonic fervor swept the country. Membership in masonic lodges plummeted. By the time joseph smith had moved his followers to naboo, IL, the lodges there were on the brink of extinction. Joseph smith seemed to have retained a fascination with freemasonry from his early teenage years, so he took all the men in his congregation into masonry. It seemed the lodges were initially more than happy to take them. Then smith adopted masonic rituals and practices into the mormon church, right down to the garb they wear to church under their clothes. It seems some of the masons were enraged by this, becuase there is a very strict taboo against mixing religion and politics with masonry. Smith was lynched, and the perpetrators were acquitted by judges who were masons. Thus began the mormon exodus to utah. It's why to this day the mormon church holds extreme antipathy toward freemasonry. They did retain all those masonic rituals and practices, though.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday November 27 2015, @04:16AM
Mark Twain was always too honest to do anything like making a fraudulent religion to get rich. He would definitely have lampooned the Scientologists, and have had a field day dealing with their lawsuits. With his ready wit and eye for effective publicity, the Scientologists would have been best off leaving him alone.