Why do Christians ridicule Scientology and other religions?

Question

Scientologists (Which I am not) believe that Xenu sent souls to a volcano then blew it up with Hydrogen bombs. I think it’s funny and ridiculous.

But why do Christians (Which I am not) poke fun at it? They believe the world was created in 7 days, the world was flooded in 30 days. Who are you to make fun of any religion when you believe there is a Man and his son floating around in a mythical place and his enemy lives in a hot scary place with his minions and lava and such. I think the bible is one of if not the biggest Sci-Fi book I have ever read.

Please help me to understand what makes your beliefs so much better than anyone elses...

Answer 1

First point I want to make is that this is not what Scientologists believe .This is what some other people promote that we believe in order to make us look ridiculous. This is not what Scientology is about, but it certainly proves the point you are making with your question.
So to me the real question is :
Why do some other people ridicule and try to put down their fellow human beings?? This kind of reaction is not exclusive to religion, by any means.
We are all individuals , we are all part of mankind.
Why do some of us have such negative emotional responses
to eachother. Such lack of understanding. Such unwillingness to really find out about the other guy?
All religions at least have and try to teach the Golden Rule : "Treat others the way you want to be treated"
"Love thy neighbor"
Why are some religious followers, Christian or not, able to apply this to their lives and some not able to, no matter how much
they believe in their religion?
It's not about which one is better or more right or more true. They all have some truth otherwise they would not be religions.

If we fix this barrier to human understanding then ALL religions will only benefit and help mankind and it won't be an issue anymore.

Now THAT'S what Scientology is really all about!

Answer 2

I don't even think validity should even be a factor. Even if one is valid and the other is not, then why not just let people be people and believe what they will? Fortunately not all Christians are that aggressive or unfeeling. The majority are good loving people. And, no, I don't agree with you that Scientology is false or that it's as false as Christianity because I don't think Christianity is false, either. I don't believe in bundles of ideas- take one take all. I think Christianity has a lot of truth and beauty in it and I've certainly found plenty of truth and beauty in Scientology. No offense, but you wrote a question about people who ridicule other religions, then you proceed to publicly state the two religions are false. How is that any different from those whom you criticize?

Answer 3

Hello Ryan,

I am a Scientologist, this means I know what I know and use it to help others. I don't feel my belief is better than anyone else's, its just my belief.

If I was in a river and in trouble and swimming real hard people might believe I wouldn't make it. I must believe that I can. I want to survive, to a high level in life. To do this I must help others to survive.

From the other perspective if someones beliefs are different to mine doesn't mean they are wrong. I see a guy float off down the river, how do I know if he has a plan. One way to find out is ask him and understand his response. I may even try floating down the river as well, then I will be able to answer for sure whether he had the right idea.

So is my belief better no its just my belief. Stay cool thanks for the question.

Answer 4

in many ways christians have not acted as christians in there dealings with other beliefs. we have not acted in love as our father commanded us and therefore it has given us a bad name as you stated the christian bible is what christians as evidence of there beliefs it is a time tested document that even some sciences such as archeology use on a regular basis and as far as it has been tested it has been found to be correct.

Answer 5

Because, like members of all other religions, they are convinced that they are right. Regardless of how rediculous the claims of their own faith, they will continue to believe in those claims. Like Scientologists, they are unable to see their own absurdities.

Answer 6

Christians even mock other denominations of their own faith!

Answer 7

Scientology is a cult not a religion. Don't confuse this.

Answer 8

Theirs is the Truth... or something like that...

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Answer 9

THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY
Scientology is a path to find your own personal truth. These are the principles:

1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true. (Because of this rule you can believe in anything you want: Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad or Dharma. Your own believes are your own business. It is a high crime in Scientology for anyone to tell you what to think or believe. You are expected to question anything in Scientology.)

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 these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose 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 on Scientology an aberration (a conclusion that is imposed 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 these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques 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's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.

6. Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also 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 a pseudo science because it 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 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 irresponsibility 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 false 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
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. Also the mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.

9. Scientology is a force for good in society. Scientologist fights Psychiatric abuses, http://www.cchr.org/ dangerous and harmful drugs, criminality, http://www.criminon.org and drug addiction. http://www.narconon.org Also Scientology fought and won against the FDA and the IRS. And Scientologist initiated the social reform group "Youth for Human Rights" http://www.youthforhumanrights.org and the movement "Say no to drugs and yes to life". http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org
Scientologist are some of the more intelligent, able and successful people in this planet. Including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini. Even Danny Masterson from the that's That '70s Show is a Scientologist.

10. Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free (marriages, naming ceremonies, ect). Scientology earns it's money by delivering courses and auditing. Courses and auditing are optional. You do not need to take courses and auditing to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life (like I do). But if you want auditing there are many alternative and economical ways to achieve this.
a. You can do volunteer work in your local church and get your services for free.
b. You can study to be an auditor and perform all your auditing with a fellow student. This way you can also provide free services to your friends and family. This is actually the preferred way to become clear because you learn how to help others. Scientology isn't about you going clear but taking responsibility across all your dynamics (self, family, group, humanity, life, ect).

11. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "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.

12. Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. If you wanna know about this propaganda see my blog: http://www.myspace.com/129727315
References
http://www.neuereligion.de/eng/index.htm
http://www.bonafidescientology.org/
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.scientology.org/
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1

Answer 10

They do? I've personally never heard a christian riddicule another religion.