So I was flipping through the channels yesterday and started watching a cartoon. It was all about my religion, Scientology! Yes, a very long time ago an evil man named Lord Xenu ruled the universe and he thought his galaxy was overpopulated so he decided it was time to get rid of some of the aliens. First he rounded them up and froze them and dumped them into the volcanoes on earth, but their souls left their bodies. Lord Xenu anticipated this and decided he would suck them up and brainwash them. The brainwashed souls cling to people on Earth, even TODAY!!! Now we must protect ourselves as L. Ron Hubbard, the man who created Scientology, has allowed us to do with his science fiction grown religion.
Tom Cruise (not really ~ M.L.A)
South Park – the Scientology Theory
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Tom Cruise’s religion Scientology is intriguing to many Americans simple because we do not understand the ideas. What we do know comes from the media such as television shows like South Park. The media in most cases does not put a good spin on fairly unknown relgions. Although the audience of Tom Cruise sees scientology in a somewhat negative light the Church of Scientology describes scientology as, “the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The Scientology religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths,” which is a different idea then what people are given from the media(Church). If this is the main idea of Scientology why are we consumed by Tom Cruise being involved in this religion and why him mainly and not the other long list of celebrities that also practice Scientology? We listen to the other sources on how they descibe scientology. Tom Cruise is one of the few celebrities who talks about the forbidden: his personal life. People are consumed by his lifestyle which is unlike their everyday life.
~M.L.A.
Those of us who criticize the “church” do so for reasons as varied as those who join them. Wanna know mine? Probably not, but here they are anyway . . .
My first reason occurred back in 1978, when I was blackmailed at the tender young age of 18 by a Co$ leader in Southern California. Said leader freaked out when he found out his 19 year-old son and I were having a same-sex relationship. He had his SON call my parents saying that I was “sick” and that my parents were to blame and that only the “church” could save us. Very sad, abusive behavior on the father’s part. The hilarious, footbullet-y part of of the whole thing was that my parents knew and liked my boyfriend and he was a happy part of our homelife that summer. Result of applying Hubbard’s tech? Three new SPs were born.
My second inspiration to criticize the “church” was the great “Time” article and the Co$ insane response to it in USA today. Add the Lisa McPherson story and Operation Clambake to the mix and I was fascinated, and not just on $cientology, but also the organizations of Moon, LaRouche, and any other mind-control organizations.
I fully understand that my fascination with this subject says more about me than it does about the objects of my fascination. Can you say the same about your membership in Li’l Davy’s Navy? Have you ever wondered why you want to belong, beyond the usual “ruin” that crops up in the Oxford Capacity Test?
I believe that the majority of public Scientologists are good, caring people, just like the majority of Critics are. You want to help by “clearing the planet” we want to help by warning people about a paranoid, destructive cult that many of us have been burned by.
Artoo45. “Panorama: Scientology and Me.” Xenu TV. 14 May 2007. 14 November 2007. .
Artoo45,
That was very interesting to hear about your Scientology experiences. Out of curiosity, I’ve heard rumors that Scientologists have claimed to other members that they have “cured” celebrities in the past from homosexuality, such as John Travolta and Tom Cruise. When you were a Scientologist, did they ever tell you this (at least, Travolta back in the 70s) when they found out about your relationship?
I’m very curious as to which “tech” methods they used to “cure” you. Thanks for sharing
Krueger. “Panorama: Scientology and Me.” Xenu TV. 16 May 2007. 14 November 2007. .
But to the gay issue, Scientology believes we all have lived trillions of lifetimes, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman. When a person is gay in this lifetime that just means that they are stuck in a past valence and have to be brought up to present time. Once that’s done, people are cured…but don’t look at that picture of Travolta kissing a dude at his plane. That blows the theory.
Xenu TV. “Panorama: Scientology and Me.” Xenu TV. 16 May 2007. 14 November 2007. .
Krueger,
I was never a $cientologist, it was my boyfriend at the time, who started his little black PR against me and my family at his father’s insistence.
The church now claims that Hubbard refuted all his previous edicts about member’s sex lives at some point in one of his many policy bulletins. The problem is that all that crap is still in “Dianetics”, so which is it? The man contradicts known fact, myth and himself so many times that it must be hard to keep track of what is “tech”. How enturbulating
Artoo45. “Panorama: Scientology and Me.” Xenu TV. 16 May 2007. 14 November 2007. .