{"id":43566,"date":"2013-04-08T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=43566"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:45:57","slug":"score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/04\/score.html","title":{"rendered":"Score!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So on April 1, as is my custom each year, I announced my conversion to a boutique religion, just to see who was awake. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/04\/i-can-no-longer-deny-the-truth-scientology-is-the-one-true-faith.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">This year it was Scientology<\/a>. To my immense satisfaction, a reader writes the following series of replies in the comboxes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m speechless.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019m rofling.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re quite the sucker, aren\u2019t you? You\u2019re almost ASKING to be scammed out of everything you own. Have fun, sucker.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m speechless.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019m rofling.<\/p>\n<p>I thought you were trolling me!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re quite the sucker, aren\u2019t you? You\u2019re almost ASKING to be scammed out of everything you own. One of L. Ron Hubbard\u2019s most famous quotes was this: \u201cIf you really want to make a lot of money, don\u2019t start a business, start a religion!\u201d Why do you think auditing costs so much? Why do you think you\u2019re now donating all of your property to the Church of Scientology?<\/p>\n<p>Have fun, sucker.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>AAAAWWWWW DAMMIT! He posted this on April 1st! I thought I was really making fun of someone for being a scientologist\u2026<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>And I posted the same damn think twice. I\u2019m ashamed! Don\u2019t look at me!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tee, as they say, hee.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on April 1, as is my custom each year, I announced my conversion to a boutique religion, just to see who was awake. This year it was Scientology. To my immense satisfaction, a reader writes the following series of replies in the comboxes: I\u2019m speechless. And now I\u2019m rofling. 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