Path: netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: Zenon Panoussis Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: New church Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 03:26:51 +0100 Organization: - Lines: 43 Message-ID: <327EA5EB.6107@dodo.pp.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup108-1-12.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: s-40153 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 [nl] (Win16; I) CC: dm@dma.se, hkk@netcom.com, Zenon Panoussis Last week I participated in some TV-programmes together with the scienos' spokeswoman Tarja Vulto. By constantly repeating that "scientology is a religion" and "we have freedom of religion in this country" she gave me an idea. She is right, we have freedom of religion. Just therefore, copyright and trade mark laws cannot be used to limit others' right to freely excercise their religion, a fact that is true even if that religion happens to be scientology. The freedom of religion prevails. I therefore met with some other people tonight and founded the "Free Church of Scientology of Stockholm". Note that the word "scientology" is central in the name. The emblem of the church is the 8-armed cross that can also be found at http://www.scientology.org/p_jpg/iconher2.jpg . According to the charter of the new church, it has as its aim and objective to "make the free practice of scientology possible, mainly by providing the members with scientology courses and course material at the lowest possible cost". More specifically, the charter sets an upper limit for course fees at "1% of the fees that the scientology church nearest to Stockholm that is associated to the Religious Technology Center and the Church of Spiritual Technology can be assumed to charge". The charter has also some provisions aimed at countering attempts at hostile take-overs. The coming days will be great fun. The CoS must now really decide if scientology is a religion or a business. It must also definitely decide if Hubbard's scriptures, secret or not, are the holy writs of such a religion, or if they are plain copyrighted science fiction. The game goes on. Those of you that receive this message by e-mail, please check if it has appeared on your news server. If not, do me a favour by reposting it. Z --- oracle@everywhere: The ephemeral source of the eternal truth...