Does the Scientology religion have a concept of God?

Question

And Why Is It A Religion? And Yes It Is A religion..

Im agonistic by the way.

Answer 1

they believe that some warlord from outer space named Xenu captured a bunch of different people form all over the universe and flew them to planet Earth and placed them by volcanoes, and then nuked the volcanoes killing all those people. Now their spirits wander the Earth and attach themselves to humans. These spirits are now known a thetins, and Scientologists believe they cause illness. Scientlogists are a ridiculous people who need to just give up on their lives. Oh, and Xenu's fleet looked like a bunch of DC-8s

Answer 2

In the religion of Scientology there are the 8 Dynamics or 8 parts of life thro' which each individual is striving to survive. These are urges towards existence and awareness in 8 different spheres:
Dynamic 1 Self
Dynamic 2 creativity,sex, family unit, rearing of children
Dynamic 3 Groups or as a group, race, etc
Dynamic 4 Mankind
Dynamic 5 All Life forms, including plants, animals, birds etc
Dynamic 6 Physical or Material Universe(Matter Energy Space & Time)
Dynamic 7 Spiritual Universe, spiritual beings, life source.
Dynamic 8 God, Supreme Being, the infinite,or as infinity.

So while the 8th Dynamic is acknowledged as a part of life it is not defined or described in any specific way. It is left upto each individual's personal awareness and understanding.
Scientology is primarily concerned with the spiritual nature of man and his relationship with the material and spiritual universe.

As to why it is a religion, well the dictionary definition that applies is :
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.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

It's CLAIMED that Scientology and belief in God are compatible, but if you look closely at 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 be Christians and Scientologists, it just doesn't make sense to be both. The fundamental doctriness 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.

Answer 4

I am not, nor have I ever been a Sociologist but I have read extensively about it. From what I have seen there is no God or worship so to speak. What they believe is sort of like a bad science fiction story mixed in with a measure of pseudo-science and psychobabble. It's founder, L. Ron Hubbard was something of a paranoid megalomaniac who spent some time in psychotherapy and apparently, did not like what the therapist had to say. Much of Scientology and it's precursor Dianetics, trashes psychology.

I attached a link if you want to explore more yourself.

Answer 5

How many times do I have to say this?Scientology is NOT a religion,it's a stupid,greedy and murderous cult.I'm tired of reading
and hearing about that cr*p.
All they believe in is a
Star Trek-like evil alien named Xenu.Shove that nonsense where the sun don't shine.That freaking cult has just recently invaded the lives of the mourning parents of the VT massacre...all for money.
How low can they go?Those idiots need to get out of my sight.

Answer 6

All the above points ...

... plus most people would consider it a cult not a religion. Furthermore, at least one major Western country has come to this conclusion through its courts.

Read Ron Hubbard's book 'Dianetics' and you will find that it is amalgam of science fiction and basic psychology dressed up to act as a sort of Bible/Quran.

Money is the main driving force behind the cult. My nephew got entrapped for several years to the detriment of his higher education and his health.

Answer 7

No, their only concept is to get their hands on your money. They must have thought they hit the jackpot when they got Tom Cruise and that other idiot John Travolta.

Answer 8

hope everyone has seen that southpark episode on it, wow that was funny!

bloody nutters!

Answer 9

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

1. Man as we know him has three parts: Body, Mind and Spirit but the spirit is man’s true form. Man’s individuality, purpose and self determinism are originated in the spirit.
The second part of man is the mind, the mind is a bank of mental image pictures were all his experiences are stored. The spirit uses these memories to estimate future action effort and make decisions. We call these decisions ‘postulates’. A ‘postulate’ is a conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself on his own self-determinism on data of the past to resolve problems on the past decide on present problems and observations and sets a pattern for the future.
The parts of the mind:
a. The analytical mind is the conscious and aware mind which thinks, observes data, remembers it and resolves problems. It would be essentially the conscious mind as opposed to the unconscious mind.
b. The reactive mind is the portion of the mind that was created during moments of unconsciousness or severe pain. This part of the mind that is occluded to the spirit but still impinges upon the spirit in a stimulus response sequence. This mind is the source of irrational fears and inexplicable emotions, pains and psychosomatic illnesses.
The third part of man is the body this part of man is the specialty of medicine and NOT Scientology. But I will tell you a little secret; the brain is not the mind. Man’s mind is far superior than the brain or any computer. First the brain doesn’t have the capacity to store not even a fraction of the mind’s memories. Secondly the amount data required to recreate man’s thinkingness is far beyond the abilities of the brain. We are talking about millions of gigabytes of data being instantly transferred from the memories banks to man’s consciences for analysis. Just think about it, brain cells are not even a good conductor of electricity. It is physically impossible for brain cells to transfers such high amount of data. All what the brain is the center of the nervous systems, the brain controls movement, glands and receives information from it’s sensor but all thinkingness of man is done by the spirit. You are not a biological machine, you are a spiritual being that has a mind and controls a body through a brain.

2. Dianetics rehabilitation technology assists the individual in exploring his own mind on a self determined basis in order to eradicate the reactive or unconscious mind. In order for the reactive mind to exist it needs to be occluded from the spirit but once the spirit have look and examined the reactive mind, the reactive mind disappears and its data becomes part of the analytical mind.

3. Scientology spiritual rehabilitation technology addresses the rehabilitation of the individuals or groups ability and ethics. Dianetics is an important part of Scientology but it only addresses the reactive mind whereas Scientology addresses all parts of life including communication, learning and morals.

4. Scientology doctrine as a religion holds as its most important axiom “What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.” This axiom promotes individual thinkingness and independence. In fact it is a high crime in Scientology for anyone to tell anyone what to think or what to believe in. In Scientology it is YOU that do the exploring, YOU that do the observations and YOU come up with your own conclusion.

5. Scientology has highly trained experts to assist you in this journey. We call these experts auditors, auditors are not counselors because they don’t give counsel or opinion. The role of the auditor is to listen and ask a question or command, these questions or commands are geared towards calling your attention to observe a part of life and YOU, by making these observations you gain new data and you reach new conclusions.
The Auditor follows this code:
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/religion/auditing/pg004a.html
“1. I promise not to evaluate for the preclear or tell him what he should think about his case in session.”, “11. I promise never to get angry with a preclear in session.”, “24. I promise to see that any donation received for processing is refunded, following the policies of the Claims Verification Board, if the preclear is dissatisfied and demands it within three months after the processing, the only condition being that he may not again be processed or trained.”

6. This link has 28 different religious studies papers on Scientology made by religious scholars: http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/index.html Also see this link: http://www.bonafidescientology.org/Append/09/index.htm

7. Scientology vs. Psychiatry. Psychiatry is a dogma that 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. But contrary to their beliefs Psychiatry bases it’s diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone. There aren’t any pathological tests that can determine if a person is mentally ill.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
In the following video two college professors explain that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTqjSfMPKA&mode=related&search=
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 and you CAN do that.
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology.

8. Scientology is a force for good in society and fights dangerous and harmful drugs and Psychiatric abuses, http://www.cchr.org/ criminality, http://www.criminon.org and drug addiction. http://www.narconon.org. And Scientologists 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
Scientologists are some of the more intelligent, able, successful and happy people in this planet; including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini.
Scientology is composed more than 6,000 churches, missions and groups, employing over 10,000 members, over 10 million people have taken Scientology services WW.

9. Scientology doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free (marriages, naming ceremonies, ect). Scientology uses an exchange system to finance its organizations, basically earns its money by delivering services. You do not need to buy services to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life. 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 become an auditor and perform all auditing with a fellow student. This way you also become a trained auditor and you can provide free services to friends and family.

10. Scientology means “knowing how to know” and follows a tradition of 10,000 years in the study of life and the spirit. Scientology earliest ancestor is the Veda (the Veda means knowingness or sacred lore) continued with the Tao-The-king (also known as Taoism and it means “the way to solving the mystery which underlines all mysteries”) continued by the Dhyana (that means knowingness or lookingness), continued by the works of Gautama Sakyamuni also know as Gautama Buddha (a Buddha or Bodhi is one that has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means).
“The words of Christ of were a lesson of compassion and they set a very fine example” The Phoenix Lectures by LRH

11. L Ron Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986), was a literary genius that published more than two hundred stories and novels between 1927 and 1941. As a Hollywood screenwriter during this same period he wrote the screen plays for films such as The Mysterious Pilot and The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, while his The Secret of Treasure Island stands as one of the most profitable serials of all time. With a regular production of one hundred thousand words a month LRH was the undisputed king of high-speed production writers. In fact he had the ability to produce a whole story in a couple days of work by only using a manual type writer (believe it or not). Amazingly in the 1980ties he did a come back as a writer by producing the best sellers ‘Battlefield Earth’ and the decaology (ten volume series) Mission Earth. LRH had 21 consecutive international bestsellers, a feat unmatched in publishing history.

LRH could have lived a very profitable and idle life as a writer but he chose to use his earnings and industry to research the human spirit and human mind. This research later became Dianetics and Scientology. LRH produced 5,000 writings and 3,000 tape-recorded lectures on the subject of Dianetics and Scientology. Contrary to popular belief L Ron Hubbard never profited from Dianetics and Scientology but it actually cost him many millions. Dianetics and Scientology are LRH’s gift to humanity. LRH also developed drug rehabilitation, educational and management programs. Humanity will always be indebted for the contributions of LRH.
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References
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/story/80/story_8057_1.html