People are angry with Scientology, so what have they done wrong in past 5 years?

Question

Is the criticism just part of Christian persecution of all religions that are not Christians. Have Christianity not done bad things in its history? What exactly have scientology done so bad in its last 5 years? Can someone please answer this question.

Answer 1

ALL I KNOW IS TOM CRUISE IS A JERK NOW SINCE HE JOINED SCIENTOLOGY. HE CUTS PEOPLE DOWN FOR SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION AND OTHER DISORDERS.

Answer 2

The truth is that it only "appears" through the media and a few bogus websites that "people" are angry with Scientology.
The fact is that Scientology in the last 5 years and actually
since it's very beginnings had done nothing but help mankind and is a very popular religion because of this.

When you discover something that improves peoples lives and
relieves suffering and unhappiness and start to broadly promote
and communicate about it, you inevitably cut across the few "people" who have a vested interest in keeping everyone suppressed.
Whenever and wherever you advocate and actively increase
spiritual freedom for mankind you will run into these elements.
Happily they only represent about 2.5% of the population at any one time.
While they can, and do try to, manipulate public opinion via the media channels and the internet (a more recent weapon which fortunately is double edged) with lies and propaganda, their efforts over the past 50 or so years have actually had no real effect on Scientology.
We are still here, all over the world, doing good, getting stronger and more numerous by the minute!!
To quote the Founder of Scientology from his Journal dated
March 13th 1982 in an article called:
"The Future of Scientology", he discussed in detail the various attacks that had been launched against us and their sources and results.
He ended the article by say this:

" We are saving beings, not men.
And the evil die within their own generation.
We don't.
The enemy can't even plan for tomorrow.
We work in eternity."

Basically we are winning because we mean well. We do good.
We know how to help.
The enemy is losing and will lose because they mean bad. They do evil, and are incompetent.
They also tend to shrivel up and die away when exposed by the light of truth.
A bit like when you pour salt on slugs.

Answer 3

Scientology has done nothing wrong. The main reason Scientologists are persecuted is because Scientology actually provides workable solutions for people and there are those in our society who oppose any effort to provide people real help. The people behind the persecution are psychiatrists, psychologists and their allies, the pharmaceutical companies.

There is currently a psycho-pharma racket that profits by keeping people sick. Psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies get people hooked on toxic mind altering drugs. People are told that they aren't getting better because they need more treatments. And who gets rich off these treatments? Psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies. Scientology, by contrast, provides people with spiritual release and enables them to live happy, healthy drug free lives.

A couple of the other posters mention Tom Cruise's remarks about Brooke Shields's use of anti-depressants. Other celebrities have also spoken out, out of concern for Brooke Shields, notable among them Kelly Preston. The fact is that Brooke Shields said in her book that her hormones were elevated. A good doctor would have treated that -- the root cause of Brooke Shields's problems -- and not prescribed a dangerous and highly addictive drug that only masks the problem.

Some posters have also made the claim that Scientologists kill people, Lisa McPherson being the most often cited case. However, this allegation has never been proven.

The interesting thing is that people fail to see who the real murderers are. 100,000 people die every year in psychiatric institutions. Psychiatrists and psychologists have sexually abused 250,000 of their patients, they kill 10,000 people a year with electroshock "therapy" and have killed 100,000 people with "anti-psychotic" drugs. Every 75 seconds another innocent person is incarcerated by psychiatry, and children as young as 6 have been killed by psychiatric restraints. These statistics come from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the world's foremost organization working for psychiatric reform. The link to CCHR's website is provided below.

Answer 4

Scientology kills people. Here are just a few of the people killed:

Lisa McPherson (36): On December 5, 1995, Lisa McPherson died. Scientology had held her against her will for 17 days. During that time, she tried to leave, became violent, and refused to eat. At the time of her death, she had bruises and abrasions on her body, and she had lost over 30 pounds in just 17 days.

Josephus Havenith (45): An autopsy report lists his death as "probable drowning" but notes that his head was not under water. He died in February 1980 at the Scientology Fort Harrison Hotel in a bathtub filled with water so hot it had burned his skin off.

Heribert Pfaff (31): According to the records, Heribert P. died august 28, 1988, during the night from a heavy epileptic attack. He hit his head on the night table. The Scientology doctor reports that he prescribed vitamins for his patient -despite regular attacks- in stead of treating him with proper medication. Such medication was indeed not detected in his blood during the post-mortem examination.

Isaac Hayes, the voice of the chef on South Park is a Scientologist. Recently he did an interview on a radio station about an episode where South Park made fun of Scientology (The episode is called Trapped in the Closet and was released in 2005). Scientology was not impressed. Now an artificially induced stroke is not hard to make. All you have to do is clot the blood going to the brain so it doesn't get any oxygen. That can be done with various chemicals. Isaac Hays suffered from a stroke a little afterwords. Then he quit South Park for Scientology saying that it is "offensive" despite the fact that he joined South Park saying that it is just satire.

You can learn more about Scientology here: http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/

Answer 5

Scientology is responsible for a few deaths as well as being notorious for tearing about families.

Not to mention your religion is based on a book by a man that once said something to the affect of; Why work for a penny a word, when you can start a religion and become a millionaire?

Answer 6

Scientology is a business. They sell 'courses' to naive believers, each one costing more than the next. The first one or two courses are 'free' but that is just the hook which gets you interested in what else they can tell you about yourself (the stories get crazier as you move forward). Some people are suckered out of a substantial amount of $$$ before they realize they have been conned.

Answer 7

I think Scientology is a weird religion. They don't believe in taking any medicine and what exactly do they believe in? I don't even think they believe in a God, unless they think they are themselves as a God lol. I am not sure really. It does seem like a cult, look at Tom Cruise! I don't know, it seems like only the rich and famous are Scientologists.

Answer 8

I'm not angry with them....I'm just suspicious of any religion or group of people that are secretive. To name two...Scientology and the Masons. You only get to know the inner-workings after you join. That bothers me...but I'm not angry.

Answer 9

About a year ago Tom Cruise ( a Scientologist ) went on TV saying that Brooke Shields should not have used prescription drugs to help her Post-Partum depression after she wrote a book about her battle with it.
They do not believe in using medicine in psychotherapy, and he condemned her publicly for it. - even though she recovered from it primarily due to the prescribed drugs she took.

Answer 10

In the 1970's it was recognized as being a pyramid scheme. conning people out of lots of money. In that sense it's not a lot different from commercial Christianity except more money was involved.

Answer 11

1. "Is the criticism just part of Christian persecution of all religions that are not Christians."

No. There are these serious issues in Scientology:

-Money:

Scientology bankrupts people through extremely high fees for their religious rituals. Scientology signs up poor people (who unlike movie stars can' pay the high fees) to work as slave, making pennies--literally--per week.

-Family:

Scientology isolates people from their families by insisting that any family member who shows concern about Scientology, or tries to discuss it rationally, or tries to argue based on evidence, is evil.

-Mental Illness

Many of their religious rituals are brainwashing techniques designed to noodle with people's minds to give them mental problems akin to schizophrenia, some people who get out never recover and are in treatment for the rest of their lives.

If the people stay in Scientology and have signed a contract to work for it for pennies a week, then after their mental illScientology will locks people up in rooms where the person is not allowed to speak or be spoken to; essentially a form of sensory depravation, which makes the mental illness worse.

-Murder

At least one woman is known for sure to have been killed by Scientologists, because they locked her up in a bug-infested room and refused to give her the medical care she needed.

I've heard also that there have been murders when Scientology was involved in court trials which would determine important things about their funding and their legal liability to the many poor people whose lives they have ruined, but I'd have to research this more to say it with confidence.

-Corruption

Officially in the religious doctrine is the instruction that anybody who tries to point out the bad parts of what Scientology is doing, or any judge who has power to made a legal decision about Scientology, should be "investigated". This means going through that persons garbage, finding out who his friends are, talking to ex-spouses and ex-boyfriends and girlfriends, to find things that can be used to blackmail or discredit that person.

It is offically in the religion, like locking up mentally sick people in rooms where they can't speak or be spoken to. In contrase, most if not all of the many bad things in Christianity's past aren't at all in the religion, and were just evil things done by people in the name of the religion. This is a huge difference - Jesus never said a thing about Crusading with swords to convert people, or burning "witches" alive, etc. L. Ron DID say to blackmail judges and opponents, did say to use the rituals which lead to schizophrenia symptoms, did say to lock up sick people in rooms alone, did say to make poor religion members work for pennies a week.


2. "Ha[s] Christianity not done bad things in its history?"

Yes. And I'm not a Christian saying this, but the bad things Christianity has done for the last 200 years or so, or more, do not even come close to the bad things Scientology does now and since its inception.

3. "What exactly have scientology done so bad in its last 5 years?"

See the first section. Bankruting and essentially inslaving normal people (not the movie stars that L. Ron explicitly said to convert and treat well, to make the religion look good on the surface). Brainwashing that leaves symptoms like those of schitzophrenia. Locking up sick people in tenament-like conditions, where there are not allowed to speak. Blackmailing judges. Tearing apart families by insisting on painting family members who try to argue about Scientology as evil people and to be avoided, even though they are family.