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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
Ha! Scientology is a religion?
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So they say (in order to get tax-exempt status as a church).
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I do believe the instigating factor is South Park's possible hypocrisy in all this. They cover up the Mohammad cartoon but Jesus, Buddha and other religions are fair game.
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Is that really hypocrisy? Christianity and Buddhism have no proscription against images of Jesus or the Buddha respectively; in fact, both historically encourage such images (but would have a problem with desecration of those images -- think Andres Serrano and his "Piss Christ"). Islam, on the other hand, traditionally does have such a proscription.
I mean granted, I know it's South Park, so there's no reason to assume they're acting out of noble urges, but there is a difference.