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Monica Pignotti  
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 More options Dec 22 1997, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: Monica Pignotti <Pigno...@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 1997/12/22
Subject: Re: Christmas Truce 1997

Stephen Jones wrote:

> In article <67j8ob$...@snews1.zippo.com>,
>         "Rebecca Hartong" <hart...@erols.com> wrote:

>>The way I figure it, the Christmas season is perhaps the LAST
>>time of year one should be making a special public effort to
>>be nice to people whom one doesn't usually like very well.
>>I figure that one of Christ's bigger messages was that people should be
>>good to one another *all year.*

>Well, I hate to disagree with Christ but did he mention
>an acceptable time to start being good to one another?  
>Does it count if you start March 12
>but not count if you begin on Dec 21st?  Do you have to wait
>for an entire year of goodness before you can respond in kind?

I think you missed Rebecca's point.  The Scientologists' gratuitous
offering of a Christmas truce is very hypocritical, considering their
behavior during the rest of the year.  This point is well taken.  If you
think that their declaration of a truce means they're going to change
their behavior from now on, I wouldn't hold my breath based on their
behavior in the years past.  When I was in Scientology on the Apollo
there was often a Christmas amnesty in December for anyone in ethics
trouble.  In January it was all over and that was the notorious month
for "heavy ethics", which more than made up for any Christmas truce.  It
was back to business as usual.  I think we all know enough by now not to
be fooled by their phoney PR tactics.  This is a pattern that has been
going on with them for a very long time and based on their behavior this
past year, I see no evidence that anything has changed.

Monica Pignotti


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