What do you guys think about scientology?

Question

Sorry if this has been asked before, i watch panorama the other night and thought it was interesting.

I would just like to say i find the religion interesting but i am not a supporter, I feel its a cult as you have to buy into it.

Answer 1

What do I think of it? I think of it as a dangerous, deceptive, destructive, manipulative, scamming, lying, brainwashing CULT. If you'd like to know why, here are just a few of MANY reasons why Scientology should be avoided at all costs:

• 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

It's a farce designed to make the people in charge rich.

L Ron Hubbard himself said that the only way to get rich was to start your own religion, so he did. He was also a liar, a conman and (from I understand) a great public speaker which explains in part why so many people followed him.

Unfortunately, scientology is supposed to make people superhuman and yet the greatest things they can come up with are actors and musicians. After all, these are the people that say all of man's problems can be traced to alien ghosts that have "bonded" with us.

Sorry, doesn't sound all that appealing to me.

Answer 3

Honestly, Scientology scares me. BUT, I only know the celebrity side of it. I guess it seems kind of like a cult to me. I really can't give a strong opinion about it because I don't have the proper knowledge of the religion.

Answer 4

Seems like a cult to me

Answer 5

I saw the documentary too. I would criticize it but then I would get sued by Scientology.....lol

Answer 6

I don't know anything about it other than the fact it was founded by author L. Ron Hubbard.

Answer 7

I don't, I might end up being a quack like Tom Cruise

Answer 8

The South Park episode about sums it up...

Answer 9

I don't think about Scientology at all. It is of no concern to me.

Answer 10

It is a nice business.You pay for them to tell what it wrong with you.Then when you finish.You pay even more.Nice con.Do they offer public stock.