As opposed to the non-cult ones organized around the veneration of one specific person who, depending on your flavor, is so important there’s a half-naked sculpture of him in every room of every building, or so holy  you have to die if you draw a picture of him.

I mean, Catholics require regular confession. Most Christian denominations and offshoots expect a tithe. The difference is a matter of degree, not of kind.

This article is a bizarre attack on Elizabeth Moss and the film. And who the fuck cares about her religion? If she wants to hang with those weirdos, go for it, it doesn’t affect me.

I gotta agree wholeheartedly. I cringed when I read the headline for this piece. Isn’t it relevant that the star is a Scientologist? Well no, it isn’t. Why was this even a question?

“Misguided”?

Tithing?

Never heard of indulgences then? Or medieval monasteries where wealthy people could pay to have their souls prayed for more? That was the entire basis of the Cluniac system that came to dominate medieval France.

Acquire wrote it as “KKK” without intending to make a reference to the American KKK, changing it from that is actually a good localization choice. To keep it “KKK” would have introduced a meaning to the phrase that wasn’t in the original language and that the original developers didn’t intend.

I’m not a Scientologist, and I’ve read/seen/heard many of the accounts of abuse within the religion, but every time I read/see/hear criticism of it, I can’t help but think “what’s the difference between those abuses and thousands (millions?) of similar or worse committed by other religions?” And what is the difference…

Yes, exactly. I was thinking: Would you ask the same of a practicing Catholic, whose church can be tied to every bad thing under the sun? As far as I can tell, she isn’t preaching it. She isn’t trying to convert me or hiding messages about it in her work. She isn’t working to ruin anyone’s life. She’s just living her…

XSEED (sans Lipschultz) e-mailed Acquire asking what originally inspired the sign. Ken Berry, XSEED’s executive vice president, helped explain what the letters meant in the U.S. “Acquire immediately responded that they had no idea the sign could be taken that way in English,” Berry told me in an e-mail.

I think I lost a few brain cells reading this. It’s not like the game was even making a joke about the KKK that was being censored. It was literally just an unfortunate acronym that has different meaning here. Hell, leaving it as KKK and giving the joke a different meaning actually changes the vision of the game…

But he was the one who made the joke. The Japanese did not make the joke involving the KKK, the translator did. They’re saying “no, you can’t make that joke based on your interpretation of the translation.”

Yeah but, he might have thought KKK witches was funny, but that wasn’t the original intent of the Japanese version. It was just a way to avoid a copywrite.

This sounds less like censorship and more like a translator taking liberties that he happens to find funny. And then getting upset when other people didn’t agree with him.

If you think shitting on people and ideologies is wrong, why are you reading Jezebel? That’s what they do... that’s nearly all they do.

Scientology is super extremely not for me, but a quip (I forget whose) comes to mind on the difference between whackadoodle cults and mainstream religions: “In a cult, there’s one guy at the top who knows it’s all bullshit. In a religion, that guy is dead.”

Well, okay, quick thought experiment: what’s the difference apart from the length of time that they’ve been around? Like what really distinguishes any of the major religions from scientology?

Fucking THANK YOU

Replace “Scientologist” with “Muslim”, reread the piece and determine if it still sounds reasonable, especially if your argument relies, out of hand, on dismissing a #NotAllMuslims argument. Either judge the person as an individual, or don’t, but don’t cherry pick. I don’t find Scientology to be compelling and their…