Scientology was recently made fun of on South Park. Is their portrayal accurrate?

Answer 1

Nearly, Jim. The e-meter does not measure "thetan levels" as South Park suggested, but when they had the words "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE" superimposed on the screen, they weren't making it up. They may have animated a little dramatically (Scientologists don't think of Xenu as a gray, tentacled thing), but the basic story is exactly what higher level Scientologists are taught.

Check it out: http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html

Answer 2

South Park is a satirical cartoon, a TV Show, that get's it's laughs from making someone or something look ridiculous. As you said yourself it "makes fun of" things.
The writers of this show are notorious religion bashers. What are the odds that Souh Park provides an accurate portrayal of a religion??
Just for the record here is a factual description of the religion of Scientology:
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. It is a very practical religion.
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 in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual as pasrt of his life. It does not conflict.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is also not a messianic religion. This means there is no worship of messiahs in Scientology. There are no “beliefs” as such because a truth should be according to ones own observation and experience.
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 lifeAnd 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. L. Ron Hubbard researched and made new discoveries about the human spirit. He developed technology from these discoveries to apply to increase spiritual awareness and ability.
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 10 million Scientologists in more than 163 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.

This is just an overview.
L. Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 2,000 tape-recorded public lectures.

Answer 3

Like all things South Park, many religions give them plenty of ammo for satire. They make fun of born again Christians all the time. Is it accurate? Hardly. Is some of it true? Definitely. Is it funny? Gives me a chuckle now and then when I happen by it when channel surfing. Do I put much stock in what Trey Parker and Matt Stone think? No.

I think the worst thing you could possibly do is complain. That's exactly what they want you to do.

Answer 4

1. if you believe a cartoon, I really feel for you.
2. if you believe a TV in any way, no matter what, I really feel for you.


"One of the main purposes for the control and power of the Establishment media is to keep the masses deceived and ignorant about their rights and oppressions of their rights."

- Charles Weisman


Here is a clip from a movie that was made 30 yrs ago...I saw it as a kid. It screams more truth today than it did then. Watch it, it might make you see the lie that is before you, at least with the TV and media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI

Answer 5

Is ANYTHING really portrayed accurately on South Park? C'mon. It's a satirical cartoon.

Yeah, Trapper Keepers morph into a scene unlike "2001: A Space Oddessey"

If you're that interested in them, do your own research! Don't believe the people here.

Answer 6

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 7

Yes, quite accurate.
Asking repeatedly Tom Cruise to come out of the closet is also accurate according to many "well informed" people.

Answer 8

I think so. Scientologists believe in the most ridiculous minutia I've ever heard, seriously.

If anyone on here is a scientologist, I would LOVE to hear how you explain your beliefs because to me it's pretty obvious how stupid you guys seem to the rest of the world.

Sorry, that was really harsh... but ****!

Answer 9

While tongue-in-cheek, South Park tends to be a little more truth than many would like to admit.

Answer 10

Mostly.

One day, if you ask me nice, I will relay the story of "LabGrrrrrrrrl is approached by Scientologists and, as an Anthropologist at the time, goes along with it for a while."