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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: ARNIE & FAIR USE: TIT
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sgoehrin@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (scott goehring)

Carl Kaun <ckaun@nyx.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>bulloney!  since when can finding and telling the *truth* be construed
>as persecution.

Scott:
>you have no way of knowing _for certain_ that Scientology's claims
>about the nature of the universe are factually false.  sure, they seem
>quite unlikely, but you can't prove that they are impossible.  such is
>the nature of religious belief.
>
>as such, attacking someone (or a group of people) on the basis of
>their belief in a specific religious doctrine is persecution.  it
>doesn't matter whether it's scientologists, jews, or witches.

    Attacking someone for their peculiar beliefs is persecution, yes.  
    Exposing what their belief system actually consists of so that 
    they cannot *deceive* anyone into becoming a body in their shop, 
    is <imho> not.
    
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