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Taken from a discussion on illvision.net
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Scientology and Christianity don’t really have 2000 years apart if you think about it. Christianity, in a nutshell, has four parts: Creation, the Fall, Redemption (Christ), Glorification. Lets look a little closer in between ‘Creation’ and ‘the Fall.’
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4“You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.5“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” - Genesis 3:1-6
What happened here at the end? In short, the 2nd oldest religion in the world was founded: the worship of man instead of God! You see, man decided that the wisdom that God gave them wasn’t that great any more, and thus removed God as their top priority and replaced Him with themselves! Seeking to server their new god, they sought the wisdom from the tree and ate of it, but the fall actually happened before that first bite.
This is not so different from the beliefs behind scientology:
“The main Scientology religious practice is spiritual counseling called “auditing.” It is a unique form of personal counseling intended to help an individual look at his own existence and improve his ability. Through viewing his own existence, an individual attempts to walk an exact route to higher states of awareness.” - http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol1.htm
Sound familiar? Well, it should. It’s just the fallen man continuing the quest to serve his favorite god: himself!
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