What is Scientology and can it be categorized with cults?

Question

I saw it on Nip/Tuck, I heard about it with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, I hear L. Ron Hubbard bashing in Tool songs, I have to know. What is Scientology? I mentioned this in a class of mine before and a little girl yelled out "a cult!". Is this true?

Answer 1

Scientology: Means "Knowing how to Know",

They have many strange beliefs that they will not tell you about before years of indoctrination (Look for Scientolog+Southpark and you'll find a quick introduction, and yes they do believe those things)

Scientology has something called "the Bridge" it means the bridge from where we are right now to total freedom.

There are two ways to cross this bridge, one is through the "Teachings" for L. Ron Hubbard (LRH for short), and the other is through a form of Scientology "therapy" called Auditing(Nothing to do with accounting)

The word Auditing comes from the Latin for listen, and what they do when Auditing you is that they hook you up to an e-meter, which is a type of lie detecting machine.

then they ask you personal questions, and they keep asking these until there is a stress reading (charge) on the e-meter. once there is a stress reading they keep asking you about the incident repeatedly until you reveal all, the Auditor is trained to give you a non-judgmental look, which you are then comforted by.

But all of this is recorded, and you can get into alot of trouble if you decide in future to leave Scientology, because you are literally blackmailed using this information.

LRH's writings are based on a Mixture of Psychology, Philosophy , Buddhism, Kabbalah, and even Aleister Crowley's Liber Al, Crowley was a friend of Hubbard's

he doesn't admit the relationship between his ideas and these but his ideas have all existed before and can be traced back to these, he colors those ideas with original words, (like enturbulate, engram, and Thetan.) and by creatively mixing different concepts together to come up with something new,

He would also include alot of science fiction fantasy in Scientology, (He was a famous science fiction writer who's books include battlefield earth)

I used to be interested in Scientology a few years back, I read about it extensively, I even had a girlfriend that was a scientologist she was a real believer, and was working for a Church of Scientology, and she got into alot of trouble when she wanted to leave.

She wanted to leave because she had to work long hours, every day of the week, (yes no weekend), and for very little pay, they made her think that she was helping to save the world from insanity.

When she tried to leave, she had to do an "ethics check", where they hook her up to the e-meter(Lie Detector) and ask her questions, and of course everything had to be revealed, thing is she didn't do anything wrong, but the trouble is they ask her personal questions. you don't have any privacy, they will track down secrets that you have in your mind,

After awhile of this sort of indoctrination, (Auditing & Reading LRH) which costs members alot of money, they are told that Jesus was evil, he was sent to lie to mankind, about Xenu some alien that nuked an alien planet, and sent all the aliens souls to earth to occupy our bodies along with us, and so on and so forth....

But of course after all those years of brain washing they think LRH was omniscient, and they believe everything he says.

it's is a cult they suck you dry of you money, and they trap your mind,

it is not a religion, even the head of a church of scientology that I use to visit to learn about scientology, told me that they set themselves up as a religion to get tax exemption! he told me that because I told him that I wasn't interested in becoming a member of a new religion

Check out this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppol_m8wm...

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2io2oczi...

hope that was beneficial to you

Answer 2

Yes, it is a religious cult although they will deny that it is religious. Tom Cruise says there is such a thing as a Catholic Scientologist, a Protestant Scientologist but regardless they are not allowed to practice their religion. Basically a cult claims to be Christian yet denies an essential truth of Biblical Christianity.

There are two other religions which are defined as cults: Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. They do not believe that Jesus was God & that salvation is by faith alone. They are usually "good" people but do not believe in the two basic tenets of faith listed above.

Answer 3

To summarize scientology:

It teaches that long ago, a people called "Thetans" inhabited the earth. These Thetans fought against each other and abused the planet badly, soooo....space aliens came and scooped all of them up and dumped them into volcanoes! When the volcanoes erupted, the spirits of the Thetans were spewed out into the atmosphere.
Now, according to Scientology, a person with a bad attitude is inhabited by negative Thetan spirits called "eangrams." The basic philosophy of scientology is to allow yourself to be only inhabited by good Thetan spirits and you progress in degrees of proficiency. Tom Cruise, for instance, is a level 6 scientologist.

Scientology is basically a hokie, made up religion by a man who wrote science fiction and got bored. That such a strange religion has reached such a following among the Hollywood elite doesn't say much for Hollywood.

Answer 4

well i believe it is based on the fact that humans all come from an alien culture that came and settled on the earth. L ron Hubbard is the founder of it and yes I would consider it a cult. Any religion that tells you how to live and what to say and what not to say and controls your mind, is a cult.
do a google search for operation clambake its a website talking abotu why it is a cult

Answer 5

A. A cult started by science fiction wroter L.Ron Hubbard. B.Yes it can.

Why not read about it for yourself?

You can download 3 free Scientology ebooks here:

http://usminc.org/scientology.html

Answer 6

It's a bizarre manufactured religion L Ron Hubbard created to keep the government from taxing the royalties he received on his novels.

Answer 7

http://www.xenu.net/
contains all the information you need.

It's an evil cult designed to make money and nothing else . Its effects on believers are destructive.

Read "the road to xenu" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu/ - an account of a girl who escaped scientology after 12 years!

The cult's core belief - no, I am not kidding here!

"The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".

His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.

When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.

One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.

In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.

One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.

One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.

Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck."

Answer 8

The cult of scientology teaches that all are God's including Christ.

Answer 9

This is an applied religious philosophy that contains workable answers to the problems people face in their lives. The subject matter of Scientology is all life. It contains practical means through which predictable improvement can be obtained in any area to which it is applied.

Answer 10

I live in the Scientology belly of the beast section of LA. These people are insane just do yourself a favor and dont get involved