What is your argument against Scientology?

Question

I'm not a practicer of Scientology, just want to know your views on it.

Answer 1

It's a cult, it's a scam and it's dangerous.

There are multitudes of people who have suffered tragic experiences during their involvement with Scientology. Read about them here:
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/
http://xenu.net/archive/personal_story/cheryl_s

Here are more "bad experiences" with the cult including an illegal plot to infiltrate the government, brainwashing techniques, mind control camps, attacks on critics, and DEATHS caused by Scientology doctrine and members:

● 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
http://www.fairgamed.org/

● 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://xenu.net/archive/personal_story/funkydonny.html

● 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

For starters it's based on a sci story about the alien head of the galactic federation named Xenu who flys a spaceship that looks like a DC-10 and blows people up in volcanoes with H-bombs.

No, I'm not kidding.

It's a cult that rips off people's money.

Google scientology if you're interested and read the horror stories from former members.

Answer 3

It was a "religion" that was fabricated by a con man who also happened to be a science-fiction writer. if you read up on the inner premise of Scientology (google "Xenu") you will see it reads like science fiction right out of the forties. L. Ron Hubbard ran off with the wife of rocket scientist Jack Parsons, after cleaning out his bank account. He was also associated with Aleister Crowley(q.v.) and was initiated into the Ninth degree of Ordo Templi Orientis, an occult Freemasonic-based society. The reason Scientology seems to 'work' so well for people is that it is founded on sound occult and psychological principles (Dianetics). However, these principles can be used on their own and it is not necessary to ally yourself with an extremely questionable cult as this one to benefit from them.

Answer 4

Don't you have to actually know what something is
to have a valid viewpoint about it?

I mean opinions are ok but they don't have to be based on any facts..... especially on this forum (L.O.L)

P.S. I have no argument against Scientology (or any other religion ). As a Scientologist it is the religion I chose, so I obviously think it's pretty good.

Answer 5

You should change this question to "What ARE your argumentS against Scientology?"

Answer 6

"South Park" makes my argument for me. They did this great episode about Scientology ("This is what Scientologists actually believe.") which was fair, accurate, and utterly absurd. You should check it out on the web. It's called "Out of the Closet" or something like that. (Referring to Tom Cruise.)

"Body thetans--get 'em off me!"

Answer 7

L. Ron Hubbard believed human beings arrived on earth via space ship or something along those lines.

Answer 8

Because L Ron told Isaac Asimov "I'm going into religion. that's where the money is" just before writing Dianetics

Answer 9

You mean, why don't I believe that the emperor of the galaxy sent aliens to die in atomic explosions next to volcanoes on Earth millions of years ago, and that those dead alien spirits now inhabit human bodies and cause all of our misery? And that the only way to rid ourselves of those alien ghosts is to pay lots of money to CoS so they can psychologically abuse us and hook us up to skin galvanometers?

I think the question is also the answer, don't you?

Answer 10

Um, it was a religion invented by a sci fi writer wanting to make money - which doesn't make it any nuttier than any other religion, just newer.