On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:35:37 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> I've noticed that some people regard Obama was the Messiah, the most
>>> wonderful thing ever to happen in American history. And others regard
>>> him as pure, liquid evil. Clearly these two viewpoints cannot both be
>>> correct. Having no clue what Obama has actually done, I have no idea
>>> which one to believe.
>>
>> It's subjective.
>>
>> You could probably learn a lot by reading his Wikipedia entry.
> 
> Yeah, but... it's subjective. ;-)

Wikipedia is often a starting point rather than an ending point.

> The other day, I read about something called "the church of
> scientology". From what Wikipedia said, this is /obviously/ a criminal
> organisation that should be shut down immediately. And yet, various
> national governments have investigated it and decided either to take no
> action, or to officially recognise it as legit. So clearly Wikipedia
> isn't presenting the full picture here.

CoS is an interesting organisation because of how closely they try to 
protect their identity and information, to the point of making it 
difficult for anyone to objectively write about them.

They're classified as a religion.  "Cult" is probably much more apt a 
description, and a cult with some very high-profile members.  But what 
I've read on the history of it, apparently L. Ron Hubbard (the author) 
had a bet with his son that he could create a religion and get people to 
donate lots of money to it.

> I imagine the same can be said about any topic which people are likely
> to have strong opinions about.

Certainly.

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