I think it is a retarded religion, but what gives the german government the right to ban it, as they are currently trying to do? That goes against basic human rights.
2007-12-10 03:29:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The better question is why don't we have the same problems? It isn't a religion, it is simply a profit-driven cult. Germany has different laws than we do, and, apparently, their laws allow them to not allow organizations masquerading as religions to operate.
2007-12-10 03:33:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Governments can ban what they like, if people don't like it then they can vote them out. Being democratic doesn't mean accepting any old Cr*p America wants to export, if the will of the German people is that ALL Americans are banned from visiting Germany then they can do so. That's the meaning of freedom. The USA is perfectly entitled to retaliate, but that's another story.
Scientology was written by a feeble science-fiction writer Ron L Hubbard as a money making scam. It has stopped people getting psychiatric care and manipulates families. What is worse his novels stink and are really boring.
2007-12-10 03:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is no basic human right that determines any group that wants to call itself a religion can. If IBM decided it was a religious organization and wanted tax rights and other rights of religions you would not say that IBM had a basic human right to exist as a religion. Scientology is a business, does not believe in any god like deity and does not want to pay taxes or be governed in any way. The german goverment has every right to deny them religious status because there is nothing religious about scientology.
2007-12-10 03:34:16 · answer #3 · answered by Jerry M 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My only experience with it was when I was living in Paris for a year alone. I forget how they got me to do it, but I think I was walking around a fair and they were advertising a social group I think. I get there and it's Scientology. They wanted me to take tests and buy Dianetics and pay money to join. It was the classic Bait and Switch. Mabe they have issue with that part of it.
If not, then the German govt is denying freedom of religion, which is not right.
2007-12-10 03:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by sandand_surf 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the German government realizes that Scientology is nothing more than a money-making scam.
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2007-12-10 03:36:14 · answer #5 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not just Germany and Scientology, many countries in Europe are hard on extreme religion. Some countries in Europe do not allow tv evangalists on the air at all--to them it is a form of fraud. A form of mass frauding of the public.
I think it has everything to do with basic human rights *not to be misled and taken advantage of* because of one's own stupidity. Good for them not to let the masses be taken for a ride. All you need to do is study Scientology and the founder to see that it is one giant scam.
There are some groups in America working hard to do the same (place some limits and boundaries to the religious on slaught designed to delude the niave for their own self-interest). More power to them... I give them loads of money to lobby on my behalf and the behalf of others who are sick of this stuff. It is NOT a basic human right to be scammed. Rather, the vulnerable should be protected from being taken advantage of.
2007-12-10 03:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by An Independent 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Personally I don't see how people don't have the right to be scammed. I mean it reminds me of that commercial where the guy walks up to the girl on the bus and tells her he's a wealthy nigerian aristocrat who needs to shift some money intot he united states blah blah blah we all know the story.
It's not the government's job to save you from your own stupidity.
2007-12-10 03:43:40 · answer #7 · answered by <Sweet-Innocence> 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What gives them the right are the "dues" that you need to pay. Your are required to take an hour session of "counsiling" month (I think) at a thousand dollars an hour, then you have to buy really expensive books and read them to become a member, and other things based only on money.
2007-12-10 03:33:33 · answer #8 · answered by cpm_2007 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some people see it not as a religion but as a scam. From that viewpoint, they want it banned. Not because they disagree with the religion but because the disagree with how it collects money from its members.
There are many ex-scientology people who are very willing to testify that scientology is nothing more than a scam.
2007-12-10 03:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
I'll tell you what their problem it. It is nutty nonsense. The German Government has their own laws and their own human rights. They are trying to protect their citizens from such nonsense.
2007-12-10 03:35:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋