What's scientology, and what is with famous people going into it?

Question

It reminds me of an organization showed at the Eddie Murphy movie Bowfinger.

Answer 1

Scientology is a body of teachings and related techniques developed by American author L. Ron Hubbard over some thirty years beginning in 1952 as a self-help philosophy, an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. It claims to offer an exact methodology to help humans achieve awareness of their spiritual existence across many lifetimes and, simultaneously, to become more effective in the physical world. The name "Scientology" is also used to refer to the controversial Church of Scientology, the largest organization promoting the practice of Scientology, which is itself part of a network of affiliated corporations that claim ownership and sole authority to disseminate Dianetics and Scientology.

A stated goal of Scientology is to "rehabilitate" the thetan (roughly equivalent to the soul) to regain its native state of "total freedom." Church spokesmen and practitioners attest that Hubbard's teachings (called "Technology" or "Tech" in Scientology terminology) have saved them from a plethora of problems and enabled them to better realize their highest potential in business and their personal lives.[1][2] However, outside observers—including journalists, lawmakers, and national governing bodies of several countries—have reached conclusions about Scientology that are sharply at odds with the Church's self-representations. These include allegations that the church is an unscrupulous commercial enterprise that harasses its critics and brutally exploits its members.

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Basically, you have to watch a South Park episode to get the whole gist of it.

Answer 2

Scientology is an utilized religious philosophy. The quickest growing to be religious flow in the worldwide, Scientology has substitute right into a firmly popular and lively tension for effective substitute interior the worldwide in decrease than 0.5 a century. The Scientology religious philosophy incorporates an actual gadget of axioms, regulations and proposals, exhaustively researched and documented as doable. As such, it supplies you the guy with the skill to dramatically advance circumstances, no longer in user-friendly terms in his own existence yet interior the worldwide around him. That for starters

Answer 3

The idea of a separate "Thetan" or separate "soul" goes against Bible teaching at Ecclesiastes 9; 5 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
And the word in the Bible translated 'soul' is "NEPHESH" which means ' that which breathes'. So our 'soul' is us, living breathing.
And Ezekiel 18;. 4 Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.
Only a living breathing thing can die.

Answer 4

Famous people Live Extra Ordinary...even they need a religion that is extra ordinary, any thing that can seperate them from common man..although Scientology can be for any one. When They Die they will refret scientology....They will bow and confess Jesus Christ is Lord.

Answer 5

Its a Scam. Famous people follow it. This proves that famous people can be duped.

Answer 6

It is a dangerous cult that can harm you.
Here is a site to gain more information. http://www.xenu.net
Here is your list of members
http://www.scientology-kills.org/celebrities/celebrities.htm