Thread: CRASH Writer Haggis Ditches Scientology, His Scathing Letter

Yeah, it's a pretty well written letter. After Tommy Davis' embarrassing interview on Nightline this weekend, this announcement must really sting!

He still buys into the ***** they're selling, he just doesn't support the organisation. This is interesting. Now here's an idea: if you have to believe this ludicrous *****, but don't want to play with the evil bastards making money off it, why not reverse-engineer an open-source version? If there are techniques out there that you think do some good, research them yourself, from scratch, and release your copyright-free...

Scifag* then

'"The god gene?" No, it's about a combination of attention rewards and capture bonding. -jcr

About damn time one might say. It's nice to see he doesn't just run off like a coward tho, and that he actually takes the time to try and explain it to the people still inside.

I think this letter proves the contrary -- their support of Prop 8 is a 'truth'. It makes it much harder to deny how out to touch the values of the Church of Scientology are with the values of the celebrities that it courts. If it were more widely known that Scientology openly supported Prop 8, a lot of people, I think would be put in the position of either leaving/condemning it, or taking a long look at their condemnation of other...

That's a difference of degree, not of kind. Psychologically it serves the same purpose.

I was cracking a joke. Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins all use the god gene to make sense of religion in evolutionary terms. Guess you didn't catch that.

The phenomenon of cults, like the Church of Scientology, are absolutely fascinating to me. It is amazing and, to me, very interesting how people can become so easily and intensely involved with this type of group. I have long been interested in this phenomenon of cults and charismatic people...Jim Jones, Manson Family, Obama worshipers, Ahmad al-Hasan, Hitler's Germany, Heaven's Gate, Branch Davidians, etc. It seems, to me, that it...

I say old chap, good show!