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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

Parent Cut Out of Children's Religious Upbringing, Scientologists

Thursday June 9, 2005

Maybe I'm just in an apocalyptic mood after finding out that I have jury duty ten minutes after learning I need another root canal- or maybe things are just strange this week. (It could be worse, like, say, finding someone's spine on your roof. Not grusesome enough?)

In a mind-numbingly stupid decision, a State Appeals court in New Jersey has ruled that a child's "primary guardian" is the only one who has any say in the religious upbringing of a child. This seems to to be part of a developing trend in judge-think, which seems to hold that children's heads will explode if they learn about more than one religion at a time.

A group of Scientologists have learned about "official religion" the hard way. A group of evangelical Scientologists were arrested after straying from Tsunami cleanup to distribute flyers which were claimed to be "insulting to Buddhism." You'd think they'd have learned from the Christians who keep getting booted for the same insensitive nonsense. Perhaps it's just me, but I think if a religion's worth bothering with, you shouldn't need to sell it...

This has got to be the most pointless waste of scientific minds: arguing how, exactly, Jesus might have died. That is to say, if they had a body to examine, or even evidence that there was such a person..sheesh.

And, as if it could not get any worse, here's Jesus on a potato Chip.

Oh, yeah- it alsorained frogs, too.
Let's hope tomorrow is a better day...

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