what are everyones views on scientology?

Answer 1

It is a very dangerous (and sometimes deadly 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 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” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions) 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

I was catholic most of my life and when I started to read about religions a book about scientology came by.

There are some good stuff in it...as in almost every philosofy, but I was looking for a universal creed, and after all scientology is a human invention.

I studied science as I think most of people does in university and I know science is the map...not the territory.

Answer 3

In the late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared:
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion"
Hubbard later created the Church of Scientology...

Answer 4

you in all risk could have asked for critiques from people who've quite tried it. Scientology works. It helps people. it quite works for me and has for extraordinarily much 40 years now. greater by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology is a faith that supplies an exact direction premier to an entire and particular information of 1’s real non secular nature and one’s courting to self, relatives, communities, Mankind, all existence kinds, the textile universe, the non secular universe and the ideally suited Being. Scientology addresses the spirit—no longer the physique or recommendations—and believes that guy is a lot greater desirable than a made from his ecosystem, or his genes. Scientology contains a physique of expertise which extends from particular popular truths. top between those are: guy is an immortal non secular being. His journey extends way previous a unmarried lifetime. His purposes are countless, notwithstanding if no longer at the instant found out. Scientology extra holds guy to be quite sturdy, and that his non secular salvation relies upon himself, his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe. Scientology isn't a dogmatic faith wherein one is asked to settle for something on faith on my own. on the different, one discovers for oneself that the concepts of Scientology are real by employing its concepts and searching at or experiencing the outcomes. the final purpose of Scientology is real non secular enlightenment and freedom. .

Answer 5

It's daft. Why are there many more ex-Scientologists than there are Scientologists?
It all came about because L. Ron Hubbard bet a friend that he could successfully start his own religion.
Anything practiced by a lot of airhead celebrities in Hollywood JUST HAS to be a complete load of bulls#1t.

Answer 6

Lol, at the street fair they were giving free "stress tests", my bf and my friend (I'll call her "Eve" & her bf) ) all got one, my other friend Jen and I declined.
They didn't say they were sci.., I figured it out when I glanced the ron hubbered books they were trying to sell.

I told Jen I bet their sci...
My friend Jen and I stood back and got our friend Eve to ask if they were sci..., it was so funny!

I was right, I was so proud of myself.
No one else had a clue till I told em'.

Answer 7

Beam me up Scotty, they worship Tom Cruise.

Answer 8

I view it as a psuedo-religion. I think it's a pyramid scheme disguised as a church.

Answer 9

Dont trust any religion that would have me jumping up and down on Oprah's sofa.

Answer 10

It has some useful psychological tools to work with. But they charge you too much to use them.