I don't think it's fair to hate on Christianity alone, so I thought I would look deeper into the pseudo religion of Scientology (Islam, YOU'RE NEXT!). And what I found was shocking.
The year is 2005. Widely famous actor Tom Cruise is on the Oprah show, promoting War of The Worlds, when in a fit of passion, leaps on the couch exclaiming his love for his drone, Katie Holmes. I heard about this, thought nothing of it. Cruise who was normally composed in interviews in the past years, has been looking more and more crazy. He was on the Today show later that year, debating against psychiatry, as "there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a body". Of course, I thought this was hilarious. Research and science has proved that that the human body is riddled with chemicals and an odd mix due to genetics is bound to occur. Shaking my head again, I thought nothing of it.
Then later that year, I seen the now notorious Scientology episode of South Park. This is the first time I have heard of this and thought it was a joke. The way they described it, I thought it was a parody. Even the "THIS IS REALLY WHAT THEY BELIEVE" flashing on the screen, I STILL thought it was parody. Over the years, I have heard various things about them, but nothing substantial. Until I found out someone I knew was one. The language they spoke of it was very.... entrancing. It wasn't a personal way of telling, it was talking points (A talking point is a neologism for an idea which may or may not be factual, usually compiled in a short list with summaries of a speaker's agenda for public or private engagements. Public relations professionals, for example, sometimes prepare "talking points memos" for their clients to help them more effectively conform public presentations with this advice). I didn't even know Scientology talking points, but I knew political talking points and they sounded just the same. I recognized the arrogant delivery.
This is when I wanted to start on this, find out what it is. One need not look long before you see an indoctrination about a million times less subtle than the typical Christian's. And then after that you see the mafia-esque - tax fraud, bribing and intimidating the authorities, wiretapping members and dissenters, extortion, calling the works of those who defected aptly named "suppressive" (which is a term they use for anyone who is openly against the church, including ex-members), making false legal claims, etc. This isn't buried knowledge or hearsay. And it's definitely not isolated. It is ingrown into the society, itself.
Next, their ideology. Fuck it, I'll just copy from Wikipedia
Xenu, also Xemu was, according to the founder of Scientology and science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology dogma holds that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm. Members of the Church of Scientology widely deny or try to hide the Xenu story.That pretty much sums up that. Hubbard was a SCIENCE FICTION WRITER. I mean, once you hit this part of it, you should see that it's just tacked on to give it religious validity, even though it's complete nonsense. Like I said, it was his intent to create original material to entertain the public and that's what he did.
Now there is auditing, probably the biggest farce and scam and oddly enough, probably it's biggest draw. Okay, so a "thetan" is a spirit sort of creature that never dies, apparently, and goes in search of a baby in the womb after death. This spirit creature records all the experiences of it's "owners" and is sort of a tablet for memory. Thus, through this psycho hypnotic therapy session, known as auditing (which they themselves refuse from the IRS, go figure), you can recall past events of your life as a thetan. To the lamen, this is intriguing. It's identical to reincarnation, except they just gave the spirit of a scifi name and the ability to remember...... which you can through therapy sessions too. Basically, this where Hubbard got a bit lazy and just stole the entire reincarnation thing for himself.
To someone like myself, who is familiar with the human brain (or at least, the mental aspect of it), it's seen as trickery. People are creative. It's just in our very being, to create elaborate tales for entertainment. Look at religion. It has existed ever since man has and wonder why? Auditing only gives people the reason to think up elaborate stories. There is only one way to prove auditing and thetans. Get someone who lived a past life, with full details of that person's life which they could not know. Say a Californian businessman with the memories of 1920s hooker in Brooklyn, which we could go back and track exactly what he said. Do they do that? No. If they did, do you not think they would publish that in some medical journal in a heartbeat? Obviously they would, it would give them validity amongst the science community and the world. Why WOULDN'T they do that? Because it all is a farce.
They also attack psychiatry, as a means to discredit their competitors to their "You can make yourself feel better if you just think it". Didn't work when Peter Pan suggested it, it isn't going to work now. And they blame those among their members who are sick. They cloud people's minds who could be getting proper treatment, much like Christians and praying, except worse.
Finally, the things that Scientologists say to reference or read up on their "religion". They lure in the weak with simple questions, make them seem like they need the help of the church to fix them, then offer ways of trickery to coerce buying their material. And they, of course, tell you to read the books, look on the website, which completely over complicates things and is intended to show that the person is not adequately able to handle all the material and some get impressed by it. This is not an adequate way of representing your beliefs. Any atheist you talk to will instantly tell you of his beliefs, his thoughts, his "religious" stances. Hell, even a Christian would. But when even the most knowledgeable Scientologist, who are really into, would STILL reference you to the website, that tells you a lot right there.
There's more I can say. But I am already repulsed at this point. Had they had the history of the Christianity, I no doubt think more and worse atrocities would have been committed and WILL be committed. But I think this video sums up my opinion on Scientology, as well as the video producer in the clip.
Also, I read a 19 year old TIME article on it. Check it out as well, as well as anything I said. Just look into it and if there's anyone you know in it, get them out and get them help.
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