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What Scientology Means For Religion

  What Is Scientology A fusion of science and spirituality, Scientology prides itself as the worlds youngest major religion. It was founded by L Ron Hubbard (LRH) in the early 1950s. It posits that human beings are incarnations of a more powerful spiritual beings called Thetans  whom through the sufferings of passing through to the material realm forgot who they really were. The point of scientology then becomes to purge individuals of engrams  or traumatic experiences and memories so that they may become more Thetan-like here on earth.  Although scientology does not revolve around a mono or polytheistic God figure, it would seem that its creator Mr. Hubbard, is revered by followers of scientology as a deity in as much as his word is gospel and uncontested as truth. Scientology's lack of a God figure and the melding of pseudoscience and new-age spiritual theories is where scientology as a religion gets sketchy.  To learn more about scientology, you can check out...

The Impact of Donald Trump on America

Donald Trump claims that he has done more for the black community than any President since Abraham Lincoln. This is a very bold statement; but whether you agree or disagree the one thing that is certain is that since Lincoln's Presidency, never has the nation been as divided as it is now under the Trump administration.   What this Presidency has done is test the resolve of human decency. What is at stake in America is not so much about policies but how we as individuals see our fellow man. This presidency has done away with the middle ground. It has evolved into a world of extremes where one is either part of one viewpoint or the other with very little room for an in between. The support of Trump is viewed by its opposition as a negation of human rights, of bigotry, and of discord. Yet for those who support Trump, anyone who does not is un-American, weak, a communist or socialist. For his supporters, Trump soon stopped being a person and fast became an ideology. He is the...