Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 35 pts · 1y (2 replies)

scientology is also a scam. they are the same. manipulation of people for money and power.

the guy who created scientology was a sci fi writer who actually declared he was going to create a religion for monetary reasons, and then did so.

Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

So it's not a scam. Scientologists are just idiots.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 6 pts · 1y

it can, and is is for all religions, both.

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

Yes, both are cults.

pivot_root@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Yes. They at least have an aurora of a scientific organization.

Maalus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No, they don't. Just because they have "scient" in the name doesn't mean they have anything to do with science.

Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y

.... that's the meanung of "aurora of..."

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 6 pts · 1y

They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

shoulderoforion@fedia.io · 11 pts · 1y

see also: the 1964 southern strategy

ulkesh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Yes, with more idiots in the congregation.

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I mean it's also pretty damn religious too

normanwall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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Zombie@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That's MTG, right? Who's the jumpsuit guy?

normanwall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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dan1101@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

So, Greene hopped herself into the fake cage to fake pray with the fake inmate who committed real crimes in a fake fight against fake voter fraud aimed at discarding real and legitimate votes in order to keep America’s fakest real president in power.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Immigrants being roughly equivalent to thetans in their theology, yeah that checks out

drake@lemmy.sdf.org · -2 pts · 1y

Personally, I don’t really feel that scientology is particularly worse than other religions. So you could just say that Trump supporters are more religious than political, really. Though, I don’t think that’s unique to Trump supporters, really - modern politics really is a lot more like a sort of religious thing rather than about the actual policy for a lot of people.