They CLAIM Scientology and belief in God are compatible, but if you look closer to the position of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder & "prophet" of Scientology, you'll see that he disagrees. While Scientology claims that its members are free to believe in God and be Christians, but it just doesn't make sense to be both. The fundamental beliefs are too much in conflict.
Christianity, as it's core tenet, teaches that Jesus Christ is our savior and messiah. Hubbard's teachings about Christ, however, deny this outright. In an earlier writing he states that Christ never existed but was only an idea electronically implanted in our minds (this implant is called "R6" by Hubbard).
"Somebody on this planet, about 600 B.C. found some pieces of 'R6.' I don't know how they found it; either by watching madmen or something. But since that time they have used it. And it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross; there was no Christ!"
Christianity teaches that, through Christ, one achieves redemption, making one worthy of heaven in the afterlife. Scientology, on the other hand, teaches that we are all immortal "Thetans", or spirits, which never actually die. According to Scientology, Thetans exist in many many physical bodies through time, but the death of the physical body never destroys the Thetan. Thus, the Thetan reincarnates over and over and never passes on to any "afterlife".
Christianity teaches that Heaven exists (and most denominations teach that Hell exists as well). Hubbard specifically denounced the idea of the existence of Heaven and Hell. Christianity also teaches that God (Yahweh) exists, and Hubbard was very skeptical of the idea of a "Big Thetan" ruling a place called "Heaven", a place he didn't believe exists.
2007-03-24 14:21:49
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answer #1
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answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7
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Scientology acknowledges the existence of a God Dynamic. Your relationship with God is your business so if you want to believe in Jesus you are more than welcome in Scientology.
Scientology addresses man's spirit to put him at cause in his environment instead of being at total effect.
What good is free will if you can't choose for yourself? Just for the record when the government was doing all the mind control experiments those that were processed through Scientology rendered the government's methods useless.
That is why it has been a systematic propaganda machine aimed at Scientology.
2007-03-24 16:23:35
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answered by T-Rex 5
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God was an alien from the Planet Xanax, Jesus was an Entogram. Scientology was invented by an otherwise unremarkable Sci-Fi writer.
You can be made happy by having your money sucked out of your wallet through the brainholes behind your ears.
2007-03-24 16:12:36
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answer #3
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answered by U-98 6
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Generally no. Scientology was created by L. Ron Hubbard, a man who before inventing Scientology, was a science fiction writer with similar abilities to George Lucas. So basically it is a religion that was written by a guy like George Lucas. Watch Star Wars and all of it's creativity and intricate story line and you can begin to imagine how this religion was invented.
2007-03-24 16:18:46
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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This is what Scientology is:
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.
Hope this helps to answer your question.
2007-03-25 12:56:26
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answered by thetaalways 6
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Only the ones that are also Christians.
You can be in Scientology and in another religion too.
In Scientology we don't discriminate.
But scientology does believes in God.
2007-03-24 17:25:42
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answered by Anonymous
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They believe in a univeral power and reincarnation I think. I have been to the scientology church but It did not work for me it just seemed like a way to make money.
I chose the Mormon religion because the holy spirit confirmed it.
Before you choose a religion I would check this one out just because I think we have a responsibility to God to learn and find which church holds the real priesthood of God. It says in the bible that we should seek him out and pray if we lack knowledge.
There is the holy melchezidic priesthood and Aronic priesthood that are the priesthoods held by Jesus himself.
If Jesus had a church on this earth it would obviously hold this priesthood. The church of Jesus christ of latter day saints. <--If I had a church on earth I would probably name it after me.
I did alot of research- I hope I have saved you some.
Only 2 churchs claim to hold these priesthoods. The mormon and catholic. This may make your search for religion easier.
Good luck
2007-03-24 16:16:29
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answer #7
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answered by SEAN M 2
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No.
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."
2007-03-24 16:10:41
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answer #8
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answered by eldad9 6
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Jesus is one of the prophets of God...
Regarding the existance of God, please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!
Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!
Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?
My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:
Do you know how to play safe?
Non-believer's case:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...
Believer's case:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...
Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?
2007-03-26 11:26:54
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answered by toon 5
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Nope. The higher levels believe that we are the result of Xenu, and evil alien lord who used hydrogen bombs to scatter the earths souls. Our bad feelings are a result of those souls.
(I THINK that's how the story goes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong)
2007-03-24 16:11:09
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answered by DougDoug_ 6
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