What is everyones opinion on Scientology?

Question

Is it good,, bad? Do any scientologists believe in God???

Answer 1

Bad. Very bad. This is why I consider it bad:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070702112032AAe8DYy

I'm sure some Scientologists do believe in a god, but Scientology is far from theistic, and CERTAINLY not Christian. L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology's founder and "prophet") both outright denied the existence of "the Christian Heaven" and also spoke about visiting such a place (though described it as a mental "implant station", nothing like the Heaven Christianity conceives).
http://www.xenu.net/archive/HCOB/FU-HCOB-630511.html

Furthermore, Scientology asserts that our REAL selves are not our bodies or minds but an eternally existing soul (a Thetan, as Hubbard called it) that resides in body after body over time. This would render the idea of an eternal afterlife quite unnecessary and moot. After a Thetan "Drops the Body" (dies), they are, according to Hubbard, preprogrammed to return to the "implant station" (which could be the "Heaven" describes) where their memories are erased and they are assigned another body.

When Hubbard spoke on the topic of "god", he jokingly postulated a "Big Thetan" but rejected the Christian notion of Yahweh. When it comes to Jesus, Hubbard declared: "The man on the cross; there was no Christ!" and asserted that the ideas of God and Christ are mental implants (he called the implant "R6"). This may be in reference to the Christian messiah or any messiah figure, but regardless, that would rule out Jesus as mankind's savior.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/christians.html#4

In addition, there's no concept of "sin" in Scientology. As stated by one ex-Scientologist: "[Scientologists] do believe, however, that the spiritual power of the spirit has decreased over zillion of centuries due to the "bad acts" they got involved into. This may be viewed as a form of sin, but the concept is quite different than the traditional concept of sin in Christianity."
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/feedback_interviews.htm

Answer 2

undesirable. They use faith as an excuse to take funds from human beings. They assume you to attend Scientology appropriate courses in case you % to alter right into a Scientologist . They run from thousands to thousands of dollars and that i hit upon maximum of their teachings to be technological expertise fiction. (in all threat using fact the guy who based Scientology replaced right into a technological expertise fiction author himself!) they do no longer formally have faith interior the Christian god, yet rather have faith that a man or woman is an immortal non secular being, they call it "thetan," who possesses a techniques and a physique. they think of that by following the church's teachings they are in a position to realize total administration over the universe around you. in case you easily went to one in each and every of their instructions you will see how made up all their thoughts quite are. you will a lot quite be a factor of a few thing else than a scientologist.