Is Scientology a Religion for Celebrities only?

Answer 1

No, though they do cater specifically to celebrities. They even have a "Scientology Celebrity Center". They do this because celebrities bring their "good reputations" to the table which helps to balance the HORRIBLE reputation this cult is building for itself.

Mostly they draw in celebrities because they have the most to $pend.

L. Ron Hubbard has been quoted as saying: "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". http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/scientology/hubbard.htm

The cult is mostly a high powered scam. It pays members 10% commissions, called FSM (Field Staff Member) commissions, on new recruits they bring in who take a course or get counseling, so Scientology members routinely try to "sell" Scientology to others.

The new members then, in turn, donate vast amounts of money to the "church". Here is a run-down of all the costs involved with Scientology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs

Here is testimony from a woman who had been involved in exposing Scientology and other cults for most of her adult life: http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/tsos/sos-19.html

Even more proof that Scientology is out for your money... here is Hubbard discussing turning Scientology into a "religion" for profit:

"I am not quite sure what we would call the place - probably not a clinic - but I am sure that it ought to be a company, independent of the HAS but fed by the HAS. We don't want a clinic. We want one in operation but not in name. Perhaps we could call it a Spiritual Guidance Center. Think up its name, will you. And we could put in nice desks and our boys in neat blue with diplomas on the walls and 1. knock psychotherapy into history and 2. make enough money to shine up my operating scope and 3. keep the HAS solvent. It is a problem of practical business. I await your reaction on the religion angle. In my opinion, we couldn't get worse public opinion than we have had or have less customers with what we've got to sell. A religious charter would be necessary in Pennsylvania or NJ to make it stick. But I sure could make it stick." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversy#L._Ron_Hubbard_and_starting_a_religion_for_money

Answer 2

The fact is that celebrities who are Scientologists do not overtly promote their religion in the media. The media picks up on any item concerning Hollywood high profile names that can be potential made into gossip or speculation and uses it to sell their product. It's a new religion compared to others. The media isn't usually that intersted in a celebrities religion. Mel Gibson is obviously a Christian, this fact wasn't of interest to the media until he did something that was "unChristian". The good things about Mel Gibson's religion and how he applies his Christianity for good are of no interest. Same for the celebrities who are Scientologists. Most of them are very active in social betterment and are trained to use Scientology technology to help others and do so without directly promoting their religion. They do this more than most but the media only spreads and promotes gossip and uses whatever it can get to knock big name celebrities. This is apparently what the public pay to read about and watch on TV. The media's "interest" and it's positive or negative effect comes and goes. It changes daily. Celeb's don't use it to promote Scientology. Usually the media are not interested in religion unless they can spin it to sell print or TV . The good works and humanitarian efforts from high profile Scientology celebrities, the absence of drug and alcohol abuse, the good parenting the finacial success and career achievements are not what the general public want to hear about Hollywood so the don't print or promote it. A persons life and how they live it is the best promotion of their religion anyway.

Answer 3

No but I've heard of people spending their last dime in order to get to the upper levels of the religion. It's a very expensive religion based on the fact that we all have thetans (bad spirits) attached to us. To cleanse ourselves of these things and to advance in the religion you pay more and more money. Google Scientology and youll find tons of pages explaining the religion.

Answer 4

Scientology is not a Religion, It is a Money machine. But that applies to the Catholic Church to.

Answer 5

It was never a real religion, but rather the product of a bet between L. Ron Hubbard and a couple of his other sci-fi writer buddies to see who could come up with a new religion that people would actually believe - Hollywood never got the joke.

Just a trivia fact, The Church Of All Worlds came from this same wager.

Answer 6

Well hey, if you want to sink all the money into something that is a load of crap, sure. Celebrities will buy into anything to make it into the tabloids, then make that product or service popular, so the business will benefit from it.

Answer 7

No. This religion was established by L. Ron Hubbard in the 50's.

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Answer 8

In my own words this is Scientology:

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.

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 knowledge and experience. 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 accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets supposed 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 situations. This is what we call in Scientology an aberration (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 judgment and free will.

4. You can discharge the energy in this pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and his the oldest of hundreds of Scientology processes used to improve the individual.

5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day. Or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes to order to help the person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.

6. Scientology Ethics: Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j

7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.

8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is simply a pseudo science because is based in principles that are false.Psychiatry have never proven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you that there are no medical test to identify a "Mental Illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo%3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of in-responsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
P.S. Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology only Psychiatry.

9. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story Jonah in the Whale in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.

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.
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1

Answer 9

No, anyone who is willing to give all their money to the organization is allowed to join. Only the celebrities get the recognition and perks.

Answer 10

I think its open to all, as long as they're wealthy and will give lots to the "church", and that's they're extremely superficial. I think a very low IQ is also mandatory. So basically, its for rich, empty headed plastic people, whose deepest thought involves what color of shirt to wear.