Many lawsuits against them have been filed, their originator has been PROVEN a fraud (see a good synopsys here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard#_note-4 ) Charges and criminal suits have ranged from Murder; extortion; blackmail; kidnapping; child abuse; child neglect; slave labor camps; burglary; racketeering.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5347730616442279040&q=scientology
What do you think?
2006-09-20 06:36:47 · 10 answers · asked by Wilson Wilson 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is a CULT.
This is what Scientologists ACTUALLY believe:
Xenu was an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. L. Ron Hubbard (a science-fiction writer and the creator of Scientology) called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and the advanced levels in Scientology place considerable emphasis on isolating them and neutralizing their ill effects.
To rid ourselves of "Body Thetans", we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind” in order to clear our mind of “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind)...... and we have to pay lots and lots and lots of money to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”.
Scientology is undeniably a cult.
Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:
1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society.
3. Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma.
4. It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds & recruit people.
5. Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.
Are Cults Harmful?
To remain within the strict mental and social confines of a cult for even a short time can have the following disastrous effects:
Loss of choice and free will. Diminished intellectual ability, vocabulary and sense of humor. Reduced use of irony, abstractions and metaphors. Reduced capacity to form flexible and intimate relationships. Poor judgment. Physical deterioration. Malnutrition. Hallucinations, panic, dissociation, guilt, identity diffusion and paranoia. Neurotic, psychotic or suicidal tendencies.
2006-09-20 06:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the ol' run of the mill cult to me.
What was the name of that one project? Project Snow White or something...
L. Ron Hubbard's wife tried to take some of the FBI's record they had on Scientology...got arrested and jailed for a few years I think.
2006-09-20 06:39:52 · answer #2 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bit of both
A strange religion that caters to wealthy Hollywood types.
No stranger than most other religions however.
2006-09-20 06:39:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientologists are crazy, they are probably more dangerous than Islam and Christianity put together.
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com
2006-09-20 06:39:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will be cautious when meeting a Scientologist face to face. They don't seem filled with love.
2006-09-20 06:42:14 · answer #5 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every religion has had its claim of criminality dear.
I don't know ,however, enough about Scientology to know what they do or not.
2006-09-20 06:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by Jmyooooh 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both. They believe the ravings of a dead madman, and they steal peoples money and faith with their false doctrine.
2006-09-20 06:40:32 · answer #7 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm for the criminal side.These people can't be that stupid.
2006-09-20 06:43:39 · answer #8 · answered by eva b 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are the same as christians in both respects, yes and yes
2006-09-20 06:41:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think maybe your confused. you should always do your own research and not take the word of the media
2006-09-20 06:40:34 · answer #10 · answered by Skipper 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋