The Truth About Scientology

I'm sure a lot of us never really knew about Scientology until it was all over the media when Tom Cruise converted. Well, that is how I heard of it. Just a little background on the Church of Scientology: It's teachings developed in 1952 by Hubbard, which is "applied religious philosophy" and the basis for a new religion. Scientology involves advanced teachings such as the story of Xenu, an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" wherein it states that 75 million years ago, Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls clustered together, and Hubbard calls these souls "Body Thetans", and advanced-level Scientologists emphasize on isolating these alien souls and neutralizing their ill effects.

I know it has been made a joke several times, but the real issues involved is that Scientology is not a religion. It is a dangerous cult that kills and ruins lives. In 1976, the Church of Scientology began harassing Paulette Cooper, author of "The Scandal of Scientology" to be incarcerated in a mental institution or jail or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks. In 1878, the creator of Scientology, Hubbard was convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison for four years because of stealing $200 million from the church. On 1977, Lisa Mcpherson became an active member of the church, and spent thousand of dollars per year on self-improvement courses. She spent over $100,000 on the church, and in 1995, when she got a minor car accident, she became mentally unstable and the Church of Scientology took her in for solitary confinement. After 17 days after being taken, 3 Scientologists drive Lisa back to the emergency room but was pronounced dead on arrival. She was underweight, dehydrated, and had bruises and bites from cockroaches. The Church of Scientology was convicted of felony.

Another case was on Josephus Havenith, a Dutchman from Germany who went on a retreat to Scientology's Fort Harrison hotel in Florida. One day, other hotel guests noticed water seeping into the carpet from under his door, and when they went to check him up, they found him dead on the bathtub. The water had been so hot that it burned his skin almost completely off. His death was described as "probably drowning" but the police noted that his head was not underwater.

There are several other "incidents" of suicide on members of the Church of Scientology. Majority of them ended up dead with no cash in their bank accounts, and those that survive get get harassed for more money.

If this is all true, let us hope it will end soon.

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