We should add 'Scientology' the other religion discussion groups.

redcliff · 01-27-2007, 12:30 PM

My original post was to add 'Scientology' now I'm changing it to add a

New-age/scientific/spiritual religions discussion group.

(you pick the best name).

Fire Legion · 01-27-2007, 01:32 PM

Scientology is not a major world religion. It would have minor discussion and only attract people to posting there for the wrong reasons.

I'd say that before we add Scientology we should add those before it in number of believers. Here are those not counted which have more believers (there may be more, the list only goes down to 21):

Chinese folk religion 394 million (see below)
Buddhism 376 million
Primal indigenous ("Pagan") 300 million
African traditional and diasporic 100 million
Sikhism 23 million
Juche 19 million
Spiritism 15 million
Bahá'í Faith 7 million
Jainism 4.2 million
Shinto 4 million (see below)
Cao Dai 4 million
Zoroastrianism 2.6 million
Tenrikyo 2 million
Neo-Paganism 1 million
Unitarian Universalism 800,000
Rastafari movement

PS: Wrong forum

. Post it in the suggestuon forum.

**The An-Jel** · 01-27-2007, 01:42 PM

If your earnest about this...make a suggestion at the AgnosticsForum.com thingy. Yeah it would be pretty funny for about a day. And remember when your messin' wit' Scientology you messin' wit' Tommy, Johnny, and the all powerful XENU, Emporer of millions of worlds and people.

redcliff · 01-27-2007, 01:59 PM

Well, you should remove 'Judaism' then, since they have ~20M people.
far less than the first 4 in your list.
But, of course, you can say, that they influenced 2 major religion
and many people know about it and its tenets.

That is my point: Scientology gets a lot of attention in the West and it is fun to discuss (galactical overlords and so on) what's wrong with having fun, and with discussing a religion that most people here are more familiar with than the others (since most Internet users are Western, and since western culture and especially U.S. culture are almost 'the world culture' and since a lot of celebrities belong to it).

Sceintology is also a good example of a 'new age religion' which the others are not. I suspect that the future will bring us more like it (when more and more people see the contradiction between science and the old religions).
So it will be nice to discuss this particular prototype.

So maybe we should start a new-age/scientifically-motivated/futuristic religions as a discussion group, where Scientology could be one of them.

**The An-Jel** · 03-16-2007, 12:03 AM

Scientology is only good cause Tom Cruise and John Travolta make it so funny. South Park episode was great!

Fire Legion · 03-16-2007, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The An-Jel

Scientology is only good cause Tom Cruise and John Travolta make it so funny. South Park episode was great!

Not to mention the one where chef dies! That was their 'revenge' episode

Maybe a general 'New Age Religions' section would be better...

**The An-Jel** · 03-16-2007, 12:42 PM

I think George has that covered under General Religion

Quote:

General Religion
Discussion about any religious topic. Example, other religious scriptures, Satanism, philosophy etc.

I couldn't imagine a forum trying to list EVERY Religion and their sects. That would be a rough ride and a whole lot of research only someone with an EXTREME (no life whatsoever) amount of time on their hands MIGHT be able to pull off.

It wouldn't hurt to have a 'Death and Doom Religions and Cults' thread though. Wait a second that covers all religions doesn't it?

**The An-Jel** · 03-16-2007, 04:21 PM

Religion is why I am not here...