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Germany may ban Scientology
It looks like Germany will take steps to formally ban Scientology. It’s had it in for Scientologists for years - if you apply for a job in the German government you get asked “Have you ever studied works by L. Ron Hubbard?” and if you answer in the affirmative you won’t get employed. This applies to all government positions, and many major industries as well. Now Germany wants to go one step further and make the organisation itself illegal. This may well bring the German government into conflict with the European Union government, which recognises Scientology as a protected religious belief.
It may be appropriate to point out here that the last time Germany started banning religions was the mid-1930s, and we all know how that ended up…
Scientology press releases here and here.
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Well although I think that Scientology is a pretty stupid (well Hubbard stole most of the scientology stuff from a certain occult order
) and dangerous cult I do not think (especially as a german citizen) that banning those guys would do any good. There is not just the official ORG (=Scientology), there is also the free zone (ex-ORG members who still practice dianetics).
Banning or controlling “religious” (and Scientology is a company, nowadays not really a real religion imho) or spiritual movements is a pretty stupid thing. Because, who’s next? I have a certain paranoid suspicion… *g*
BTW in the end of the 70s they tried to sue and ban ISKCON (Hare Krsna) in Germany. But that was a disaster. Vedanta aka “Hinduism” has a lot more power than eg Scientology
And only 2 years ago Jehovas Witnesses. Looks like there still is a tradition of witchhunting in germany (but also in other countries with a lot of evangelical or roman catholic fundamentalists)
blessed beast
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Frank