Can we put Scientologist as Christian? Are they Catholic or Protestant ? Which Bible do they use ?

Question

I don't understand anything about Scientology, but they claimed that they're Christian. If they're Christian, what make them call themselves Scientologist and not Christian? What make them to be different? Are they even the same as Christian?
Are they the same as Anglican, Uniting Church, Orthodox etc ?

yet, if they're not Christian, why do they use the word:" Church of Scientology"?
why do they use cross as well ?
look at:
http://www.scientology.org

Answer 1

Tell me if this sounds ANYTHING like Christianity...

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 spacecrafts 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" and also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... and we have to pay lots and lots and lots of money for “auditing” and to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”. The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry and psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life and has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).

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.

Cults are extremely 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.

Answer 2

Here is some information about Scientology which may help to answer your questions. Also the word "church" if you look in a dictionary has different definitions, one of them is simply " a congregation". It is not exclusive to the Christian faith. Same for the cross as a symbol.
Anyway I hope the following will clarifies things a bit. I myself have been a Scientologist for the past 34 years. I was raised in the Jewish faith and altho I am not a practicing Jew and do not belong to a synagog I still consider myself Jewish from a cultural viewpoint.

Scientology is an applied religious philosophy. When I say "applied" I mean you actually use it in your life to change or improve existing conditions. This is different from a religious practice. All religions if you learn about them have a basic philosphy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances, and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this, but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It does not intrude on anyones faiths of beliefs particularly in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual, which is why you can be a practicing Jew,for example and still use and apply the priniciples of Scientology in your life. It does not conflict. If anything it will enhance your understanding of your chosen religious practice.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from using it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is a non denominational religion . The dictionary definition that applies:
Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognises the existence of superhuman power or powers.

The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a "thing" you HAVE but what YOU actually are.
The whole purpose of Scientology is to increase an individual's understanding and awareness of himself. And thereby his native abilities .
When you do this the sphere and zone of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life, his family ,his friends, his groups and mankind which he is part of.

How this result is achieved is the "technology" of Scientology, which was developed by L.Ron Hubbard after his extensive research and the discoveries he made, about the human spirit. The basic religious philosophy and knowledge of Scientology is very old, going back 10,000 years at least to the Veda or Vedic Hymns from the East. The developement of the technology is new.
He completed his research before his death in 1986 and left all of his results and copyrights
to the Church of Scientology along with most of his considerable personal estate, when he died.

He published a book in 1951 to communicate the basic principles he discovered called: " Scientology The Fundementals of Thought"
There are currently over 8 million Scientologists in more that 150 countries world wide. However we are a new religion, only 53 years old.
The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:
1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find it works.
4. People pass it along to others.
5. It grows.


The cross as a symbol predates Christianity.
The Scientology cross is symbolic because it has 8 points.
These represent the 8 Dynamics or 8 parts of life thro' which each individual is striving to survive. These are urges towards existence in 8 different spheres:
Dynamic 1 Self
Dynamic 2 creativity,sex, family unit, rearing of children
Dynamic 3 Groups or as a group, race, etc
Dynamic 4 Mankind
Dynamic 5 Life forms, plants, animals, birds etc
Dynamic 6 Physical or Material Universe(Matter Energy Space & Time)
Dynamic 7 Spiritual Universe, spiritual beings, life source.
Dynamic 8 God, Supreme Being, the infinite,or as infinity.

Scientology does not use the Bible as it's Scripture.
It uses the writing and recorded spoken words of L Ron Hubbard. He laid out the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writing, incliding dozens of books and over 2000 tape-recorded public lectures.
He stated he was a man as others are men. He was a much loved friend and teacher and continues to be respected and loved .

There is a very comprehensive book compiled by the Church of Scientology called " What is Scientology".
This book answers any questions and also gives extensive information about Scientology, it's structure, technology, heritage and it's social programs.

Most libraries will have a copy.

Answer 3

Sorry but Scientologist are not Christians but can be part of any church of their chossing. Thre are Christian-Scientologist, Muslim Scientologist, Buddhism Scientologist.
Scientology isn't a faith system but a series of proceses that a person uses to find his own truth. Here are some of the principles.

1. What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.

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 unknowingly affected by them.

5. You can discharge the energy in this pictures true communication. This is Auditing, the Auditor directs your attention to this pictures regardless of how ugly they are and you confront the picture and discharge the energy of the picture true the communication line. Is like if you have battery, in order to discharge the battery you need to discharged against something. If you try to discharge it against your self is just going to chock you.

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 they 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.

Answer 4

Scientology isn't a religion at all; still less a Christian denomination. It's nothing more than a scam to separate misguided and gullible people (commonly called "fools" or "suckers") from their money. Scientology leaders wouldn't touch a Bible with a ten-foot pole.

"In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. These events are known as "Incident II" or "The Wall of Fire," and the traumatic memories associated with them are known as the "R6 implant."

Answer 5

Scientologists do not claim to be Christians, your information is wrong.

Scientology is a joke, it was created by a science fiction writer who believed he could get rich by inventing a religion... much like other older religions were created - for power and influence. It worked, he made a fortune selling it.

Answer 6

They are nothing, they believe in a religion that a science fiction writer made up! They believe there are evil spirits in your body from a past earth that had a nuclear war, and the only way to purge them is to follow guidelines they have. L. ron hubbard, before he made scientology seriously sad the quickest way to become rich is to make your own religion. Keep in mind hubbard was a paranoid schizophrenic drug addict. Yet, rich suckers keep buying in.

Answer 7

For any person or group to be considered "Christian," they must believe in only one God who created all, that Jesus is the only Son of God, and that Jesus died for our sins and was resurrected. For example, Mormons are not considered Christians because they do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

As for the use of a cross, the cross that Christians use symbolically was orginally an instrument of the death penalty by the Roman Empire. Many cultures of the world have symbols that are crosses, some of them predating Christianity.

Answer 8

As a former Evangelical Protestant, and now an Orthodox Christian (we are evangelical, too, yet no longer interior the Protestant way), i got here across to my marvel that far extra scripture is study in a common Orthodox provider (whether vespers, orthros/matins, or the divine liturgy) than in any provider interior the church of my upbringing. working example, in orthros -- the morning prayer provider of the church -- in many circumstances seven finished psalms are study aloud, as properly as a protracted gospel passage. interior the divine liturgy, there are psalm verses explicitly study aloud, plus a protracted epistle plus a gospel interpreting. The sermons tend to no longer be long, yet they are in many circumstances on the subject rely of the gospel or epistle, with little rambling. won't be able to truly evaluate with Roman Catholic centers, in view that i've got been to so few (and frequently funerals...) Forgive me. /Orthodox

Answer 9

Scientologists are definitely not christian, they don't believe in Christ. They actually don't have any direct belief in a supreme being other than themselves. One of their most cherished doctrines is that man is limitless and through hard work and determination man can do anything.

Answer 10

Not christian. Much more delusional. They are into some weird alien stuff and have these weird machines.