Dennis (Icarus) wrote:
> "John W. Kennedy"  wrote in message
> news:47AA2DE1.2080303{at}attglobal.net...
>> One might add that the creature in TLT is somewhat friendlier to a
>> Zoroastrian world model than to a Christian.

> What about Scientology? ;-)

Scientology is really too muddle-headed to relate to the question one 
way or the other. Apart from a pseudo-scientific theory of something 
somewhat resembling, but not really equivalent to, reincarnation, 
Scientology has almost no philosophical overlap with real religions at 
all. (In principle, Scientology and Christianity, or Judaism, or Islam, 
or Zoroastrianism, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Sikhism, or Shinto, or 
Wicca -- or classical paganism, for that matter -- could be 
simultaneously true. Even Scientology and Atheism could. Scientology 
does have a certain resemblance to Gnosticism -- fair enough, really; 
"Sci-" and "Gno-" are Latin and Greek synonyms -- but,
again, their 
actual dogmata are mutually orthogonal.)

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. 
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because 
it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it is 
violent, and not because it is unjust."
   -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"
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