does Scientology give you super powers and enlightenment?

Question

Nice link aethermanas. Maybe it is true because Tom Cruise was able to save 3 lives within a year. Maybe he has exceptionally enhanced senses ala Daredevil. He could be a real modern day Batman, you know. Cool.... lol. So if a real Batman appears, all of us will know it is the suave multi-billionaire actor, Tom Cruise. Ha! we know his secret identity.

Nice link aethermanas. Maybe it is true because Tom Cruise was able to save 3 lives within a year. Maybe he has exceptionally enhanced senses ala Daredevil. He could be a real modern day Batman, you know. Cool.... lol. So if a real Batman appears, all of us will know it is the suave multi-billionaire actor, Tom Cruise. Ha! we know his secret identity.

Answer 1

Scientology is a religion of "HUMANISM"

Their power is derived from other sources other than God Here is some viewpoint.

The different way Christians and Humanists view mankind:

GOD’S MAN - HUMANIST’S MAN

Created By God - Product Of Evolutionary Process
Image Of God - Image Of Nature And Social Heritage
Has Soul - Has No Soul
Has Eternal Purpose - Has No Eternal Purpose
Life After Death - No Life After Death

Humanism Is A Religion:

A. They have a bible: Humanist Manifesto I & II
B. They have an object of worship: Man himself
C. They have a priesthood and missionaries: Public educators
D. They have seminaries: teachers colleges
E. They have temples: schools colleges and universities
F. They are intolerant of other religions

Humanists freely teach:

Atheism
Evolution Fact
Situation Ethics
Explicit Sex Education
Perversions As Acceptable
No Life After Death
These Concepts Can Be Taught Freely During School Hours To Captive Children

Humanists totally forbid teaching:

God The Creator
Creation as Scientific
Moral Absolutes
Biblical View Of Sexuality
Homosexuality Wrong
Heaven, Hell, Judgment
These Concepts Cannot Be Taught On School Premises- Even After School Hours End.

Basic Tenets Of Humanism

A. It affirms that the universe is self-existent and denies that it was created. Thus, it affirms the eternity of matter and denies the existence of God and His word of creation.
B. It affirms that man evolved by natural means. This means that they hold that God had nothing to do with bring man into being.
C. It affirms that man is totally physical, thus denying that man has a spirit or soul
D. It affirms that all religion is the result of social evolution. Faith in God is outmoded, Religion retards Human progress
E. It denies that God is the ultimate good, thus denying that men do either that which is really objectively wrong or that which is really objectively right.
F. It affirms that the ultimate end of man’s life is to be found in the here and now. Humanism rejects Heaven; it denies there is a Hell.
G. "Worship" of God and prayer to God is rejected. Man should rather use his time in seeking to promote social well-being.
H. It affirms that man must learn to depend upon science and must discourage hopes of heaven (which involves wishful thinking)
I. It holds that man alone is responsible for the realization of the world of his dreams, thus holding that God has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Effects Of Humanism:

A. Evolution is fact
B. there is no God
C. The Bible is a myth
D. Antagonistic towards all other religions
E. eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
F. "If It Feels Good Do It"
G. Man answers only to himself
H. No Absolute truth or right and wrong
I. Man becomes self righteous
J. General unwillingness to follow authority
K. sexual freedom, homosexuality, easy divorce
L. suicide, abortion and euthanasia encouraged
M. Situation ethics: "lying is Ok if you need to"
N. Children are rebellious (Spanking children is outlawed as a form of discipline)
O. Take the "lock" from wedlock-Increased Divorce rate (If marriage partners are unhappy, divorce)
P. Materialism and acquisition of wealth

4 Part Foundation Of Humanism

1. Atheism
2. Evolution
3. Autonomous Man (Answers Only To Self)
4. Relative Truth

Quotations From The Humanist Bible

MANIFESTO I

ARTICLE 2: "Humanism believes that man is part of nature and that he has emerged as the result of a continuous process.
ARTICLE 3: "Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
ARTICLE 8: "Religious Humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man’s life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now.

MANIFESTO II

ARTICLE 2: "Promises of immortal salvation or fear of damnation are both illusory and harmful...Modern science discredits such historic concepts as the ‘ghost in the machine’ and ‘separable soul.’ Rather, science affirms that the human species is an emergence from natural evolutionary forces...There is no credible evidence that life survives the death of the body.
ARTICLE 5: "We believe in maximum individual autonomy consonant with social responsibility

God’s Bible Against The Humanist Bible:

A. There is a God: Ps 14:1; Ps 2:3-6; Heb 11:1,6
B. The earth had a beginning and will come to and end: Gen 1:1; 2 Pe 3:10
C. Things which are seen are temporary: 2 Cor 4:17-18
D. Man made in image of God: Gen 1:27
E. Man is a dual being: Eccl 12:7; Jas 2:26; Phil 1:21f
F. Man cannot guide himself: Prov 3:5; 14:12
G. The Bible contains absolute truth for right & wrong: Jn 17:17; 2 Pe 1:3
H. Man’s duty is to fear God: Eccl 12:13
I. Man’s happiness and destiny are bound up in "love God with all heart mind and soul, and love man as self Mt 22:34-40; Rom 13:8-10 (Christ’s example of dying on cross is highest value of unselfish love and service)
J. We should not serve the flesh: Tit 3:3
K. There is life after death and judgment: Heb 9:27; Mt 25:46; Eccl 3:11
L. In the last days... 2 Ti 3:1-7

Answer 2

Clearness of thinking, ability to communcate clearly in a crisis, training in non-drug methods of pain relief, self-confidence. Maybe those only seem super powered because they are so rare in the average untrained person. :) Of course you can also get those from other sources also.

wow Home Buddy. Thats really working the anti-humanism thing if you are going to stretch it over a scientology discussion.

Answer 3

Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
Deu 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deu 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Answer 4

Absolutely with just a few more sessions of counselling I'm sure you'll begin to see your super-human abilities begin to manifiest. Will that be cash or charge?

Answer 5

Yes. You can jump on the furniture and not get slapped for acting like a child. My mom'd get mad if I did that but Oprah doesn't seem to mind.

Answer 6

yes, Tom Cruise is proof

Answer 7

I think Scientology is just one more way for famous people to try and set themselves apart from us the "Everyday Joe". I also think that it is one more thing they want to see if we will follow them for starting. Faith is not a trend. Though they seem to think it is.

Answer 8

Not until you reach "Clear" and they take you out on the boat and teach you all about Xenu.

I think it mostly gives you death (a la Lisa McPherson).

Answer 9

Yes, you become super enlightened after you've given them super amounts of money.

Answer 10

Of course not! They are just a crowd of rich and famous lunatics!