Scientologists should be deprogramed forcefully?

Question

Dont you agree? When a cult brainwashes someone they should be made able to think for themselves.

For the person who mentioned the cult awareness network, well $cientology sued them over and over until they went bankrupt. Then $cientology proceded to buy them and declare that $cientology is not a cult.

For the people who disagree, dont they know how many lives $cientology has destroyed, how many laws they have broken and how many people/Organizations has been harassed?

You need thousands of dollars to attend the church and be "saved" how can anybody argue in favor of the church?

They take advantage of vulnerable people and brainwash them.

Answer 1

I sometimes think the same way about other beliefs and religions as well.But, chances are you would only increase their belief if you tried to force them not to believe.It is a better thing to simply show them why you think they are delusional and let them make up their own mind on whether they want to remain in a self imposed delusion.

Answer 2

First let me answer NO.
This is the only thing you have said so far that I agree with.
"Dont you agree? When a cult brainwashes someone they should be made able to think for themselves."

The rest of it is SOOOoooo full of ****.
How many lives destroyed? All I ever see are the same one or two people named. That's a pretty good score when compared to any other religion. Even if you limited them to the last decade Scientology still comes out lower than almost any others.

Thousands of dollars to attend is also ****. Most people take a couple of very cheap courses then leave.

And brainwash is a fairly worthless word to use. One persons brainwashed is another persons strong belief. I see no difference between scientologists I have met or seen on tv than any other group (religion, anti-religion, athiest, whoever). In fact, the most brainwashed example I have seen lately would be your rant.

Which by the way, your "question" seems to not be looking for an "answer" and your added edits take you well into a "rant" which is a reportable offense.

Answer 3

Hahahaha. Interesting choice. A religion which preaches thinking for themselves. Isnt that the one where their "god" is locked up and they have to learn to fix their own lives instead of praying for help from their god? Of course that info comes from anti-scientology sites. I took a couple of their courses and never heard any of that. (good stuff, I still use it every day)

You are recommending The Cult Awareness Network (CAN)? They used to be the experts at deprogramming. They got in the news alot. Have you ever seen their hit-list?
According to ReligiousTolerance.org :
"By 1995, they maintained files "on a total of 1505 groups." A sampling includes the following organizations: "...Amway, the Amish, Anti-Reformation League; chiropractic, Roman Catholics, Campus Crusade for Christ, the board game Dungeons and Dragons, the Democratic Workers Party, the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana (America’s largest Protestant congregation), the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, The Grateful Dead, the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, the International Workers Party; Klanwatch, the Ku Klux Klan, Lutherans, Mormons, Shirley MacLaine, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Oklahoma City bombings, Opus Dei, the Order of the Solar Temple, Protestants, Peoples Temple, Promise Keepers, PTL Club, the Rockford Institute, the Rutherford Institute, the Rajneeshees, Soka Gakkai, Scientology, Santeria, Teen magazine, Transcendental Meditation, Toronto Blessing; Urantia, the United Pentecostal Church, the Worldwide Church of God, the Wycliffe Bible Society, Women Aglow and Youth for Christ." 1 Some of the religious organizations that they targeted are simply high intensity religious groups which expect a major commitment from their followers (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses and the Unification Church). Only the Order of the Solar Temple and Peoples Temple were destructive, doomsday religious cults."

Answer 4

Wouldn't any deprogramming just consist of reprogramming the person as an atheist? Or to whatever you believe to be politically correct? If so, who is to say that this will be any better?

Answer 5

I know a lot of Christians that are brainwashed - should they be forceably deprogrammed? We all have a right to screw up our own lives.

Answer 6

I thank God I live in a FREE country where I can worship as I wish..What are you going to do next..shoot them? or just do like the Chinese Communists, and Nazi's and send them to camps?

Answer 7

Do you mean sternly? Yes, you can be stern; but don't do anything that contravenes the Deprogrammers Guide.
And you can't tie them up.

Answer 8

I agree before their bank accounts are fully drained instead of after.

Answer 9

Ahhh, let them have their fun. Just leave me out of it.

Answer 10

Not if they're of legal age. If they're legal adults, they're presumed to be responsible for themselves.