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An Anonymous Coward submitted the news that a Court ruled Church of Scientology Moscow branch should be 'dissolved':
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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Hey, wait a minute!! I want a divorce!! ... you're not Clint Eastwood!!
(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday November 26 2015, @07:19AM
Catholics are supposed to tithe. they do not, by and large. Mormons are much better at tithing, because of the consequences of not doing so. Of course, one result of this is that Mormon social support services, if you are a Mormon, are much better than what Catholics provide. But then again, Catholics, like most other Christian sects, do not only help their members but offer aid to all, as part of their mission. So you see, Mormons are tribalist assholes. Leave the church, and you will never get any assistance at all from them. You may even be designated as the Mormon equivalent of a "supressive person"? And then they may send in the "Death Angels" . The history is not good. Mountain Meadows. The Salamander papers, and car bombs in Salt Lake. And now, active banning of all homosexuals. I am not that asshole, religion is that asshole. And I must say, starting with the Elusian Mysteries, I have seen enough of them to know. If you truly are an atheist, you know you are proposing a false equivalency.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 26 2015, @09:36AM
" I am not that asshole,"
Perspective, Grasshopper. Get some.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday November 26 2015, @06:24PM
When comparing objects rather than integers there are often several different things that can be compared. Many times two distinct objects will compare equal WRT some characteristics and different WRT others. This is especially true if they are instances of two different descendant classes.
Well, object-oriented programming doesn't map exactly onto reality, but I feel that there is an ancestral "class" of Religion that includes everything from tribal religions through Buddhism. Then there are descendant classes, often called things like "monotheistic", etc. Each major brand of religion is essentially a new descendant class. So when you compare instances of two distinct religious classes you will not find identity, but you may find them equal in certain characteristics shared by their common ancestor.
Actually purely objective languages, like Io, are a better map of how things change and evolve, but few people would understand the argument if I used that framework. And they are uncommon because the approach is inefficient. But that is common with evolved rather than designed systems. (Even purely objective languages that I'm aware of don't include featrue deletion, so the map could be improved...at the cost of even more inefficiency.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2015, @07:02PM
> you know you are proposing a false equivalency.
The only one with a false equivalency here is you - equating Mormonism to all religions so you can feel justified in shitting on people for being religious. You and buzzard are birds of a feather both thinking that your personal arbitrary judgment of groups of people you've never met and know nothing about beyond a couple of simple facts gives you moral standing to be assholes.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday November 27 2015, @07:40PM
moral standing to be assholes
Thank you for your comment. I will have to ponder this concept for a while. Perhaps there is no such thing, which was kind of my point. Could I be guilty as well? Maybe. (I let the Buzzard speak for its self, since no one seems able to prevent that.