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Whackjob cult 'abuses Ebay'
UNBORN-AGAIN ex-believers trying to unload their Scientology gizmos on Ebay are being thwarted as the self styled 'church' zaps the listings itself.
According to reports here, this abuses eBay's VeRO (Verified Rights Owner) programme by practicing religious or price discrimination. Anyone can become a VeRO by simply filling in a form and sending it to Ebay and can then delete auctions for items to which they claim to own the rights without notifying Ebay.
One such person left the 'Church' of Scientology a few years ago and tried to offload books, tapes, and e-meters on Ebay, only to find that the auction disappeared after a few hours. Scientologists are, naturally, encouraged to buy shiny new and expensive e-meters direct from the 'church' rather than picking them up cheaply on online auction sites.
The VeRO scheme is principally designed to stop the sale of fake Rolexes and other counterfeit items, rather than 'genuine' e-meters, but the Thetans appear to be simply trying to bump up sales of their own electronic snake oil.
As the label on the bottom of each meter says:
"By itself, this meter does nothing. It is solely for the guide of Ministers of the Church in Confessionals and pastoral counselling. The Electrometer is not medically or scientifically capable of improving the health or bodily function of anyone and is for religious use by students and Ministers of the Church of Scientology only." ยต
Inq Factoid: The difference between a church and a cult is that the church pays no tax.
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You poor thing Andrew, you're obviously going to be not-so-subtly followed and slandered by those dearly deluded, and not a little ridiculous, clamheads :)
Unfortunately, Scientology is the only cult that is tax-exempt. They were able to do this by blackmailing IRS members.

http://www.raids.org/afterirs.htm
until we make a world without religion, peace doesn't have a prayer....
What are you driveling on about? If we totally reject the idea of absolute morality, then how do we decide the difference between right and wrong? Put it to a vote? And if you can't decide on morality, how the HELL are you going to decide what's legal and illegal?

If there is a God, people who serve him win, people who don't lose, eventually. If there ISN'T a God, EVERYBODY loses. So, maybe now you understand why a lot of people don't give a damn about the idea of the big bang and small mammals being destined to have descendants that will wear glasses and drive SUVs.
So basically you're saying non-religious people can't have a system of ethics? That's a fairly extreme statement.

And "having a vote on it" is exactly how democracies make decisions about what is legal or illegal.