2007-06-12 18:55:33 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think and I KNOW that it's a greedy, brainwashing, dangerous cult. It has in the past committed crimes against the United States government, it's own members and those who dare openly criticize it:
• 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
2007-06-12 19:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Scientology?
When I moved to LA they found me a place to live, a social scene and a paying job.
They never asked me to question my religious beliefs.
In exchange for some menial labor they offered to "Clear" my mental problems.
Sitting in an all night DENNY'S near McArthur park I had the most deeply esoteric conversations I had had up to that point in life.
They let me read a lot of interesting books by L. Ron Hubbard that presented an alternate viewpoint on the universe that I had not encountered up to that point.
They weaned me off recreational drug use, but I was ready to quit anyway. What they supplied was non drug (except caffeine, nicotine and alcohol) users to hang out with.
Then they started asking me for more and more money so I could advance up the ladder to CLEAR.
When they had a joint event with the Unification Church (MOONIES) I quit going to their orgs and never looked back.
Some years later I found the Goddess and the right religion for me.
Scientology is alright for a while. It's kind of like the AOL of alternate belief systems. Eventually you need something more spiritual and less pyramid scheme like in structure.
2007-06-13 02:29:17 · answer #2 · answered by hairypotto 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Church of Scientology sent me a DVD called An Introduction to Scientology. It was freaking hilarious. I'd highly recommend it. Anyone that can watch L. Ron Hubbard in that interview and still believe a word that comes out of his mouth has a few screws loose.
2007-06-13 02:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by robtheman 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
This religion was created by a Sci-Fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. So what does that tell you?
I read that he initially created it as an experiment, and as a dare among a prominent circle of science fiction writers that he spoke to during the late '40s. Soon after, he published his popular book on "Dianetics". He was fascinated by the power of self-hypnosis which he instead referred to as "engrams", or words that people repeat to themselves over and over and over.
Scary stuff. I'm so surprised that people fall for this crap. Listen to the song "Building A Religion" by Cake... it's about the freakiness of this religion.
he used to hook people to his religion.
He's got followers all over the world. (L. Ron Hubbard is dead already by the way).
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why! 12
— L. Ron Hubbard
2007-06-13 02:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
please google operation clambake...
Lord Xenu who was a ruler of a federation of 26 planets solved the overpopulation problem by flying billions of citizens of the federation to earth 75,000,000 years ago in DC-9 like planes. He clustered them around volcanoes and blew them up with H-bombs. He collected their souls on something similar to electronic fly paper. However pieces of their souls stuck to primitive humans and are the reasons for human suffering now. Some of his officers rebelled against him and imprisoned him on a mountain top on one of the federation's planets where he remains alive till today. Scientology will, for a fee (up to $500,000) rid you of the problems you are experiencing due to those soul fragments.
2007-06-13 02:14:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's no much difference of most religions they actually believe in immortality and they say "believe only in what you see"!! How contradictory?! Is just another way of man for looking the truth like they say but sometimes we look in the wrong place. Is human nature.
2007-06-13 02:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It fits into some peoples beliefs, As do all religions. And vice versa.
2007-06-13 01:58:36 · answer #7 · answered by Ohteech 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not so bad, not any worst than the old ones. Just less popular.
2007-06-13 02:02:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think Scientologists are crazy, I think Scientology is a cult, and I think they are hiding something.
2007-06-13 01:59:32 · answer #9 · answered by Fluffington Cuddlebutts 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Dangerous CULT!
2007-06-13 01:59:07 · answer #10 · answered by U-98 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋