"Scientology hurts its own members"
- Scientology routinely pressures members into spending more money than they can afford on
expensive courses.
- Scientology's ‘disconnection’ policy destroys families.
-Scientology betrays the trust of well-intentioned people by falsely claiming to have a scientifically
proven technology to save the world.
-Scientology ruthlessly attacks its critics. One such critic was author Paulette Cooper.
Paulette was harrased for over 7 years, until the FBI exposed the Scientology plot to frame Paulette which resulted in her arrest and long battle in court to prove her innocence, the signs of the vicious struggle to retain her sanity were quite visible.
- Many Scientologists have died under suspicious circumstances. http://www.whyaretheydead.net
Scientology lies:
Lying to people to get their money isn't just unethical - it's illegal. It's called fraud.
-Scientology claims there is a scientific basis for all their processes. There isn't, and if there is, it’s never been revealed to anyone.
-Scientology claims it's compatible with other belief systems, like Christianity. It's not. The higher OT levels accuse Christ of being a “lover of young boys”. The OT3 Xenu doctrine “reveals” all other religions to be false data and an alien implant.
“There was no Christ.”
- L Ron Hubbard, confidential Class 8 course, taped on the ship Apollo in Corfu, Greece.
-Scientology claims to be the fastest-growing religion in the world, with 8 million members, utilizing infallible technology developed by a ‘physicist’ and ‘war hero’. They're lying. Actual ex-Scientologists exposed to the hard data place the actual number of Scientologists at around 50-80,000 members, worldwide. Hubbard flunked out of college and was removed from command in the Navy three times. Read “Bare-Faced Messiah” by Russell Miller, a true account of Ron’s life. It’s available free all over the internet.
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm
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“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
- L Ron Hubbard’s Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz.
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"My father has always used the confidential information extracted from people during [confessionals] to intimidate, threaten and coerce them to do what he wanted, which often meant getting them to give him money. My father routinely used false threats and [information from confessionals] particularly about crimes people had committed to extort money from them.
My father has always held out Scientology and auditing to be based purely on science and not on religious 'belief’ or faith. We regularly promised and distributed publications with 'scientific guarantees'. This was, and has always been, common practice. My father and I created a 'religious front' only for tax purposes and legal protection 'from fraud Claims'. We almost always told nearly everyone that Scientology was really science, not a religion, but that the religious front was created to deal with the government."
-- Ronald DeWolf a.k.a. L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. (son of L. Ron Hubbard), Affadavit in Schaick v. Church of Scientology, US District Court Mass., No. 79-2491
Disclaimer:
Where applicable, sources will be cited, but the reader is strongly encouraged to do his or her own research. Take a look at the official Church websites.
http://www.whatisscientology.org/
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/