Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: Oh, Canada!
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anon2c9e@nyx10.cs.du.edu (henry)

>what have YOU done today to fight scientology, you snot-nosed punk?

    This reminds me of a story.  Something I will remember til I
    die.

    In the early 70's, after my first wife left me, I was living
    with a girlfriend.  We had a child together.  I decide not to
    marry her and to proceed with my plan to join the c-org.  We
    split up and it broke her heart.

    At a party a few months later, I bumped into her and her
    brother.  She was still too broke up to talk to me.  But her
    brother called me out for being a scumbag, in front maybe 50
    people.  I was a bigshot then.  Everybody at the party knew
    me.  It was a scene.

    Rather than lose a tiny bit of precious face, I said something,
    almost exactly like you (above).  Gathering my authority, I
    pronounced, "Get real.  You're not even an auditor.  I *train* 
    auditors.  I did more for humanity *this afternoon* than you
    have in your whole f-ing life."
    
    I was dead rong.

    People should not be required to do the "right thing", Aytch.
    Just like your ISP.

    Morality isn't a uniform issued to people that they have to
    wear in order to function in society.  It might work that way
    for a while, but it would become perverted and authoritarian.
    Morality is more an invisible metal that people pin to their 
    *own* hearts in order to remind themselves that it's better to 
    be a good person.

            +--------------------------------------+
           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
                           "tar baby"