Scientology Scam :: essays research papers

So, apprize you say some(prenominal)thing good about Scientologists? Well, they are snazzy dressers. Oh and Tom Cruise is one And the person who instigateed scientology also wrote that sci-fi unadulterated "Battlefield Earth". What a great movie... - OK let me go on the offensive now...Scientology is rather young. Beginning in 1953, during a coincidently timed slump in Layfaette Ronald Hubbards book sales. Originally a a few(prenominal) "help centers" sprung up, taking the places of bookstores where for a nominal fee and the purchase of a copy of Dianetics, you could soon be feeling the effects of a peeled way to look at religion. Of course the timing is all co-occurrent right? BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Wrong-O-Laserbrain Take a look at this quote from a Sci-Fi convention in Newark, New Jersey"Writing for a centime a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to possess a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion."Guess who s aid that? OK that was an easy one... Guess when he said it? March 1949. Oddly enough he hasnt mentioned this directly to any of his cul-- I mean, his congregation.Scientology bases itself on a belief that we are simply the alive vessels for an alien soul. Thats right. The alien soul is called the thetan. A human being throw out get in touch with his inner E.T. by achieving a embrace of clear (Scientology plays like an RPG, you get XP, you raise levels) It takes a lot of gold to become clear, for reasons I have yet to discern, but Juliette Lewis apparently was open to do so, which leads me to believe it was indeed money that spurs the alien to the surface, and not intelligence.Now, lets take this further.... As many of you know, Im not a religious man, however I would be remiss to use one of the fundamental pillars of Christianity to lend toleration to a new religion I was trying to set up. Yep, thats right, savior was a Scientologist. According to L. Ron Hubbard, Jesus was a n ordinary man, who went a shade above clear. This allowed his mortal body to produce what looked like miracles, although according to L.R.H. any scientologist can do this with enough training in the way of the thetan. Im wondering wherefore Scientologists arent trying to bring more credibility to their religion if this is the case, hell, one or two of them could damn near end world hunger Oh right, the thetan require money to perform.