Does anyone else find Scientology scary?

Question

I am just researching it now - I am officially creeped out. Any opinions about it?

Answer 1

Oh yes, I find it very VERY frightening. I think most people would be equally frightened by such a dangerous, destructive, greedy, manipulative, scamming, lying, brainwashing cult.

If it's information you're after, I've got tons of it. Here are several MORE reasons why it's quite understandable that many people are really scared of Scientology:

• Operation Snow White – Under this official program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, & theft of documents in government offices. This program constituted the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Among the 11 prominent Scientologists convicted of this conspiracy was Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of Scientology’s “prophet”.
http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/scientology/snow-white/index.html
http://en.allexperts.com/e/o/op/operation_snow_white.htm

• Operation Freakout - Their campaign of sabotage & violence against Paulette Cooper, the writer who published her research & findings on several cults, including Scientology. Scientology’s official plan: to frame Paulette, ruin her career & reputation & get her either incarcerated or locked up in psychiatric confinement.
The official plan: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Krasel/cooper/frk1.html
Her book: http://holysmoke.org/cos/books/scandal-of-scientology-cooper.pdf

• Fair Game - the Scientology policy detailing how the organization may confront & handle critics & perceived enemies. Here is a direct quote: "Enemies may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/fairgame.htm
http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/Fair_game_ord.html

• Physical & psychological punishment: Scientologists who "break the rules" while members of the "Sea Org" must subject themselves to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which includes regimes of harsh physical punishment, forced self-confessions, social isolation, hard labor and intensive ideological indoctrination.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/rpf.html
http://www.lermanet2.com/scientology/gulags/BrainwashinginScientology'sRehabilitationProjectForce.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rpf/escape_2.htm

• Brainwashing & mind control: Scientology exerts control over its members by means of typical cult tactics, including but not limited to controlling information about internal doctrine & criticism of the organization, severely restricting social contact outside the cult (including the practice of “disconnecting” with any family who question the credibility & trustworthiness of the cult), creating an “us against them” mentality by villainizing a specific out-group (for Scientology, it’s psychiatrists), & claiming all those outside the cult are unenlightened.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
http://www.factnet.org/Books/SocialControl/scs.html#toc http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/s/scientology/pignotti/
http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/faq.html#cult

• Violent Kidnapping - Lisa McPherson was a Scientologist, was involved in a car accident & resultantly became mentally unstable. She was kidnapped from the hospital by agents of Scientology, held against her will, refused proper psychiatric treatment & allowed to STARVE TO DEATH.
Video: http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
News Coverage: http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/Lisa_McPherson_Scientology_Deaths.html
Website: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

• Tragic Murder - A CBS “48 Hours” special on Jeremy Perkins, the mentally disturbed son of Scientologist parents who, because of the Scientology doctrine of opposing psychiatry, refused to put him on the anti-psychotic drugs that would have stabilized him & prevented him from killing his own mother.
Video: http://www.scientomogy.com/jeremy_perkins.php
CBS article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml
Website: http://perkinstragedy.org

Answer 2

No and I question your methods of research, unless you are just into finding something creepy about religions in general.

By the way "officially creeped out" did you research any official sources or material, or just all the unofficial collaborative sites on the internet?

Answer 3

Howdy John,

Check out some Scientology sites instead.

The truth can be pretty scary, we have a planet of people with drug problems-the current widely accepted solution is to give them other drugs instead. In Scientology we show a person how to get off drugs without using other drugs.

We have a growing level of illiteracy-the current method is to teach a child to memorise better or drug them if they distract to many other students or their teacher-I doubt whether the other students or their teachers actually agree with this.

Have a look at the real problems on this planet and find out the people who are working to solve them.

Answer 4

Prejudice is easy to come by.

A few hundred years ago, Catholics in Europe found Protestant beliefs officially scary. And a lot of these Protestants ended up running away from the Inquisition to USA.

Are you trying to start up another hunt for heretics here?

Answer 5

The name "Scientology" is a real joke word for idiots as well.

1 Take part of science-----Scien-

2 Add an "ology" (if you have an "ology" you are a scientist)

Now you have Scientology, a clever sounding name for idiots

Answer 6

They are based on Fiction and believe they are Alien beings waiting to be picked up by the mothership. Can you believe the craziness of this reliegion. I am officially creeped out too. God Bless. Jesus is not an Alien.

Answer 7

That makes 2 of us

Answer 8

Scary NO
Strange YES
one of the out there "religions"

Answer 9

Not really. The Moral Majority I find scary.

Answer 10

It's not scary to me. It's amusing.
It's a cult and it takes money from people who cannot afford it. It's okay if the celebrities want to give ... they can afford it.

While you are researching, read "The Road to Xenu" (free download ... google it) and you'll understand what Scientologiy is like from the inside. (It's written by a former member.)