What is Scientology an do you believe in it?

Question

I really don't get what this religion is about?...Can somebody please explain....

Answer 1

See here. http://www.scientology.org/
No, I do not believe in it. They teach that man is an immortal, spiritual being. In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. L. Ron Hubbard is the founder. Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack. Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

Answer 2

Its a money grubbing cult. Nothing more. Go to this site. It will explain it all for you.

http://www.zenu.net

It has nothing to do with God. It is a religion made up by a Science fiction writer (L. Ron Hubbard) who decided he could make more money making a new religion than writing books.
If you become far enough entrenched (or should I say pay enough money) into the Church you can become what they call OT3. This is where they tell you that 75 million years ago evil lord Xenu a glactic emperor had a problem. His galaxy was over populated and he froze the alien beings and dropped them into valconoes on earth (some of which did not exist 75 million years ago) Then he dropped an H-Bomb on the volcanoes just to make sure. The souls glided up into his giant soul catchers and were brainwashed into beliveing religions. The souls were then released and embodied primitive man.
This is all true. I am not making this up one bit. I have an audio clip of him explaining this very story in his own words. Its a bunch of BS.
They beleive you can heal your body through the mind. They beleive Psyciatric drugs are useless.
They beleive traumatizing events cause us to repeat these events. I could go on and on. These people are nuts and need help.

Answer 3

First I want to clarify that the story of Xeno is just a fable and no Scientologist believe it to be true. In fact most Scientologist I have meet haven't even heard the story.
Scientology is much like Buddhism but instead of meditation they use auditing with the same goal and faster results.
1. What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.
This is a common believe with Buddhism in the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha teaches the danger in fashioning one's beliefs merely on the following grounds: on hearsay, on tradition, because many others say it is so, on the authority of ancient scriptures, on the word of a supernatural being, or out of trust in one's teachers, elders, or priests. Instead one maintains an open mind and thoroughly investigates one's own experience of life.
2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body. This is a common believe with many religions.
3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowlege and experiance. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes this pictures are acompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suposed that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situacions. This is what we call in Scientology an aberation (a conclusion that is impose to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram; A pain memory that affects your judgement and free will.
4. A spirit is capable of considerations and ideas and this ideas are solely based on uglyness and beautyfullness. The spirit reject ugly things and intends on making everything beautyfull. Do you like your car, you house, your job, your friends? Are you friends nice with you? Can you improve things in your life? All these are ideas based on uglyness and beautyfullness. This is why the spirits rejects the ugly memories and by rejecting the ugly memories (not confronting them) he is unknowinly affacted by them.

Scientology is a very interesting religion that takes years of study to master. I just mentioned a few fundamentals. Scientology is so advance and so different that people can't understand it. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality thet don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand. That's why Scientology gets so much bad press. Scientologist see all these bad press with pity. They understand that people are acting out of ignorance and using their reactive mind. Is like watching a bunch of cows in a stampede going towards a clift. They are going in that direction because the cow in front is going that way, What they don't know is that the cow in front is blind. Scientologist are the few blessed ones that can see the truth and get out of the stampede.

Answer 4

Scientology is a silly religion where people believe that some all powerful being created all of mankind.........Wait I'm getting my silly religions mixed up.

Answer 5

It's a cult who worships an alien. It's really big in the rich (they demand a lot of money in this cult), ignorant and overly superficial groups. You won't find many intelligent people involved.

Answer 6

Check their information on religioustolerance.org. They get made fun of a lot but are a recognized religion by the U.S. government.

Answer 7

from what I learned at college, scientology is very opposed to medicine and they believe that pain is healed by mind over matter and that God will heal. Tom Cruise is a scientologist, and apparently he believes that drugs are not necessarily, particularly for post partum depression sufferers.