Scientology's®
Claims
From: Public Relations (publicrelations@scientology.org)
WHY HAS SCIENTOLOGY SOMETIMES BEEN CONSIDERED CONTROVERSIAL?
Like all new ideas, Scientology has come under attack by the uniformed
and those who feel their vested interests are threatened. As
Scientologists have openly and effectively advocated social reform causes,
they have become the target of attacks. For those vested interests who
cling to a status quo that is detrimental to society, Scientology's
technology of making the able more able and teaching people to think for
themselves poses a serious threat.
As the falsehoods are proven lies, the controversy quickly fades, and the
truth about Scientology, what the Church really is and what its members
do, replaces it. The source of these attacks and the controversy that
have generated are detailed in Chapter 31 of this book. [the What is
Scientology? book]
And now for the truth
There's nothing new to Scientology. Scam artists and tax evaders have
been with humanity ever since individuals started congregating for
mutual safety and protection. Scientology isn't perpetually
controversial because of any notion or ideal that their mad messiah L.
Ron Hubbard dreamed up, it's perpetually "controversial"
because Scientology is perpetually criminal. Scientology's on the front
page at the news stand for the very same reasons why the Mafia families
of the 1930's through the 1970's were perpetually on the front pages of
newspapers.
The claim that Scientology advocates social reforms and thus makes
them controversial is nonsense. Thousands of real religions and real
organizations advocate social programs and yet few ever become as
controversial as the Scientology crime syndicate. Scientology's
supposed social programs are never an issue; it's the criminal
basis for Scientology's existance that's always at issue. Indeed, the
criminal organization is constantly annowed that nobody takes them and
their advocacy seriously -- and indeed nobody should since they're all
based upon the drug induced hallucinations of
their mad messiah L. Ron Hubbard who also labored under
highly dysfunctional mental problems. Since
nobody takes Scientology and its bizarre social notions seriously,
their social advocacy isn't a matter of controversy.
Here you have the official spokesperson for the Scientology organization
trying to claim that all the criminal indictments, all the embarrassing
court documents, all the materials available in the public domain which
tells the truth about Scientology is all because there's opposition to
change in social thinking that Scientology advocate.
The fact is that Scientology has no new ideas. None. The most bizarre
idea is that humans are infested with the invisible fragments of
murdered space aliens which cause all of humanity's problems yet
even that notion isn't new... it's a common theme among science fiction
venues. Even the notion that people have previous lives, that they
can leave their bodies, that everything they hear is memorized, and all
the other claptrap real or delusional offered in "Dianetics"
have all been advocated routinely for centuries before Scientology's mad
messiah L. Ron Hubbard came down the pike and decided he'd try his hand
at cobbling together a pseudo-self-help book.
So no, few people care about Scientology's notions and ideals except
when they're criminal notions and ideals which motivate criminal
activities; the endless criminal activities of which Scientology is
well known for.
Subject: Controversial?
Date: 1999/01/06
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