Is it normal to think that christians shouldn't make fun of scientology?

Except the cult of scientology kills it's own believers with some of their practices.

https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/deaths-related-to-scientology.63925/

The article isn't the best but I'm feeling kinda lazy, there's more good info in the comments.

If you make something public, then you subject it to criticism.

If only the most logical, rational minds on Earth were to be the ones that hold rights to criticize, nothing would fucking get done and no ideas would come forth... or at least, it would take many, many years. Why? Because there are not that many people that are truly logical, rational and reasonable thinkers.

And no, you're not it. Yes, you. Yes. YOU. Get an education and a job or some shit before you back yourself up on this one. You've got a double digit odometer at best. I'm serious. You know who you are. Stop it.

Anyway, back to my original point, if it's public, we have the right to criticize it so why not? If no one ever criticized anything because their beliefs were deemed to be equally stupid then bullshit would happen more frequently and go unchecked more frequently.

Uh, Scientology is a cult. They've killed people. They've destroyed government documents. They've had operations trying to get people committed to mental hospitals. IT'S NOT THE SAME THING.

Any religion has no right to make fun of any other religion period.

Everyone should make fun of Scientology why exclude Christians from the fun

Everyone knows that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the One True Living God. Why even debate other theocracies?

What is with all the Christian hate on this site?

Goosfraba....Goosfraba....Goosfraba.

For 2) and 3) -

Those are things people do/have done- not thereligion itself. There is no law against premarital sex in christianity. And burning witches was just a bad phase for humanity, as were most phases.

The Bible actually makes sense, although it has it's contradictions (but, shit, look how long and old it is). And it was ahead of it's time in knowledge, as were most things of the past, it seems.

What you are referring to are the myths, metaphorical ways of understanding that which cannot be understood.

Scientology = science fiction

YOU don't like both of them so THEY can't judge each other??? Because they should know that you are right and they are stupid. What a childish egocentric perspective.

Scientology denies that depression is real and they mess people up
That way. I know people who went off meds and it was a bad scene

Nobody has ever been burned to death because they disagreed with a Scientologist or tried to educate themselves... Yet.

Errrr, no zombies are in the bible. There are angels, spirits, people who come back as they were. But no zombies. Most science is fake. How in the world could the Earth exist. Don't say the BigBangTherory because a bang would make things go byebye.
Also, if there are aliens, how could they be made.
Animals, bacteria, plants could exist. There.

Scientology? Is that an american thing?

The Bible is the living word of God, and is of His un-understandable wisdom. If that was a word? My point is, people come up with all kinds of crazy ideas and beliefs, you name it, we have come up with it. And that is the problem. We try to explain to our selves something that is too big for us to understand. God's word is basic, and explains the very thing which we are talking about. But in order for anyone to understand it, we need to start with faith. Faith that what is written in the Bible is truly of God. There is more historical and scientific evidence strengthening the claims of the Bible then there are for any other text based religion. The places mentioned are actual places found on Earth, there are more records of the Kings, Kingdoms, events and geographical areas mentioned in the Bible, than there are with any other belief system. The events which are supernatural in nature, which require an amount of faith to understand, can not be proven or dis-proven. Human constructed beliefs are full of faults, as we are, and cannot explain things as clearly as how God can explain things. But we are still too damn proud, and just have to make our own path to the truth. God is not the author of confusion, that is Satan's job--to mislead as many people as possible before he is permanently dealt with. I pray that all who read this, are not mislead, and continue to seek out the truth, and that you find it. We cannot rely on our understanding of these things, we are bias, our pride blinds us from the truth, Satan has convinced us that we can be like God, and that our life is our life with no consequences. Time is short, not only for you individually, but for the very existence of life on this cursed Earth. Don't be satisfied with what a human tells you, seek the truth found in God's word, that is our only hope!

It is irony at it's most raw. I sometimes stand in disbelief when my Catholic friends make fun of Islam for "radical" beliefs. I am an atheist, but I was raised Catholic and Christianity is one of the most ridiculous religions there is in my opinion.

You're thoughts on Christianity are a bit peculiar, and flat out wrong to be honest but you have a point. Christ is not a man anymore but a spirit, part of the Godhead, or trinity I guess. A lot of people I gather aren't convicted by stories like Adam and Eve if they're false or not, but are convicted by an external force they can't entirely explain, but inevitably lines up with the word of God. This is why you have religious people, to some it's doctrines and principles, to others like myself, I follow love, I seek it, try to give it and to have shame when I bring hate into the world instead.

I don't go out of the way to make fun of them, but I fake-laugh at people's jokes. Maybe that's not being honest or fair, but then again, if I believe, or know I have the truth, am I a worse person for not deconstructing what I believe or know to be a false religion?

I realize that I have to try to understand more, and take it less to heart, when someone bashes Christianity, for the wrong reasons, but it's somewhat hard for me because up until now I have pretty much been agnostic. I think it's fair to assess the point of something like reincarnation in the Universe.

@op:

Is evolution any less odd? Somehow over billions of years, single-celled organisms evolved into intelligent humans beings with reasoning ability.
There were no human genes in that "amoeba"; no human genes in the gene pool at all so a human could not have evolved from it.

You atheists cannot dispute that we didn't create ourselves, so Who did?
An all powerful Creator, God.

I couldn't agree more with the OP. Christianity, Islam, etc. are ALL just as ridiculous as Scientology. I like the way you stated that, too...a very good summary. A jealous, spiteful, vengeful, narcissistic god who was pissed off at his pets because one of them got duped by a snake into eating an apple and heriting on some mysterious corruption to the rest of his pets decided as a last resort to impregnate one of his pets with his "son" (which according to the trinity is actually god himself). This son (read: god himself) went on to live like a mortal for many years showing off his godly powers by walking on water, dicing fish, and turning mere water into booze (I'd like to learn that trick). Subsequently, said god was captured, tortured, and nailed to a wooden post (effectively committing suicide because of that omniscience thing), kept in a state of suspended animation for two days only to be resurrected and magically ascend into heaven for all eternity and lavished with the worship of many millions of his pets. This bizarre split-personality suicide of sorts for some weird reason redeems god's pets with one caveat: they must go out of their mind lavishing worship and gratitude believing without question god killed himself for them because one of their ancestors ate an apple through no fault of their own OR they are condemned forever to indescribably merciless torment in some unfathomable torture chamber. If that isn't insanity, I don't know what is.

Every religion and faith is equally as important and should be respected even if one disagrees with the religions views. Faith is a beautiful thing so don't offend anyone no matter what you believe.

I'm not offended, I was confused. And don't tell me what to do.

I laughed reading this :D

You're very right. If you really think about it, Christianity is kind of a cult.
No one who has religion should judge anyone else with religion. That is a right that should only be given to those who aren't religious!

It would be harder to make fun of Scientology if it didn't read like a half-assed science fiction story.

Oh and it would help if the founder didn't state that you could make more money from starting a religion than writing books.

Very naughty. :P