Scientology on Panorama

[pete]

Is that a religion against a religion?

I think its more they reject existing religions.

Now that I think of it I don't think any religion has been spared the wrath of South Park which is the way it should be.

[GavinZac]

Scientology is like a real life Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster cult, and should be used as such as an example of the idiocy of faith.

[kingdom hoop]

Scientology is like a real life Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster cult, and should be used as such as an example of the idiocy of faith.

Idiocy of faith or people though?

I think by attacking faith you must be attacking mankind...

[geysir]

Surprised no one has posted this up here:

Is that a BBC journalist losing his rag? Looks like he could do with a personality test.

Was that scene part of the Panorama doc?

[BohsPartisan]

Is that a BBC journalist losing his rag? Looks like he could do with a personality test.

Was that scene part of the Panorama doc?

Yeah that was the BBC guy. Don't think that was actually on the programme though, not sure.

[geysir]

Okay, I have checked out the BBC website
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/sear...=all&edition=i
and there's a good bit of stuff there on this.
So far as I have seen, the Scientology guy has won all the rounds, ending with a ko punch in the outburst, followed by more humiliation for Sweeney in the post programme interview where he digs himself deeper trying to get out of the hole.
Pompous príck.

[Jerry The Saint]

Okay, I have checked out the BBC website
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/sear...=all&edition=i
and there's a good bit of stuff there on this.
So far as I have seen, the Scientology guy has won all the rounds, ending with a ko punch in the outburst, followed by more humiliation for Sweeney in the post programme interview where he digs himself deeper trying to get out of the hole.
Pompous príck.

Panorama sent a guy to Jamaica to investigate the Bob Woolmer case. Conclusion: He might have been murdered, probably something to do with cricket...

[Dodge]

Panorama sent a guy to Jamaica to investigate the Bob Woolmer case. Conclusion: He might have been murdered, probably something to do with cricket...

Was he not already there though? Agree the "special" was terrible. No information at all

[jebus]

Yeah that was the BBC guy. Don't think that was actually on the programme though, not sure.

No they showed it alright, pretty much had to given that the scientologists were recording it too

[pete]

Yeah that was the BBC guy. Don't think that was actually on the programme though, not sure.

Watched the show on the BBC website & it definitely was included in the show.

[paul_oshea]

saw the whole show all of it that has been mentoined on this thread was on it.

[geysir]

saw the whole show all of it that has been mentoined on this thread was on it.

The cheek of them, did they say thanks anywhere?

[paul_oshea]

no they didnt geysir. ya i know what you mean, some people what?!?!

[finlma]

the boss i think filmna is a little confused, i think he meant to say he is agnositic, although he did say something created us, but not sure so maybe he is aetheist or maybe he just doesnt know himself - perhaps a little confused.

I'm far from a sit on the fence agnostic. Atheist through and through. I see each and every religion or cult as being equally ridiculous. Christianity is every bit as laughable in my eyes as Scientology.

It was poor reporting - the guy should lose his job for the outburst. If any of us shouted like that in our job we would be fired.

[GavinZac]

Idiocy of faith or people though?

I think by attacking faith you must be attacking mankind...

True. But then, what people are taught as children is very difficult to get them to deny later - admitting you and the people who raised you were wrong isnt easy -and at the risk of automatically losing any burgeoning debate, the rise of fascism was greatly aided by germans not wishing to believe they were wrong about world war 1.

[reder]

I didn't know that place on Abbey Street that was askng me did I want to do a "personality test" all the time was a scientology place...

They switched to a stress test a year or 2 ago. Well thats what they offered me. After watching that Panorama clip its the scientologist that needs de-stressing.

[Wolfie]

I'm far from a sit on the fence agnostic. Atheist through and through. I see each and every religion or cult as being equally ridiculous. Christianity is every bit as laughable in my eyes as Scientology.

It was poor reporting - the guy should lose his job for the outburst. If any of us shouted like that in our job we would be fired.

I suppose all you can say in the Reporters defence is that he may have lost the plot, but he kept his sanity, as he said himself.

I can remember journalist Liam Fay, while at Hotpress, wrote an article on the amount of Cults located in Dublin. This was back in the early 90's and even then there were loads of them.