Lies Debunked: Scientologists' Families

Scientology's doublecross

Scientology's® Claims

From: publicrelations@scientology.org
Subject: Scientologists' Families
Date: 2000/03/06

How does the Church view relationships between a Scientologist and family members who are not Scientologists?

The Church encourages and helps its members to have excellent family relationships, whether or not their relatives are Scientologists. In fact, relationships between a Scientologist and the rest of his family routinely improve after he begins practicing Scientology because he has acquired the means to increase communication and address and resolve any problems that might have existed.

The Church goes to great lengths to reconcile family differences should a problem arise. For example, Scientology Chaplains will assist family members to come together and work to discover the real cause of their disagreements. Friends and family of Scientologists are always welcome to visit the Church, to meet other Scientologists and to have any questions they may have about Scientology answered. Regardless of whether the other family members choose to become Scientologists or not, Scientologists take deep pride in their record of resolving family problems and conflicts.

Robert

And now for the truth

Everything the Scientology spokesperson just said is a lie. One looks at the history of Scientology and how it handles people who are not followers of their criminal enterprise to see just how much of a "whopper" Scientology's claims here are. Let's take a look one at a time:

The Church encourages and helps its members to have excellent family relationships, whether or not their relatives are Scientologists. -- No, Scientology views the family members of their victims as a potential revenue source. If family members try to explain Scientology's criminal history or complains about the large amounts of money their loved one is giving to the crooks, Scientology then starts viewing the family members of their victims as "Potential Trouble Sources" or "PTS" for short. If the family member persists in trying to help their loved one escape from the clutches of the criminal enterprise, blocks bank accounts to keep their loved one from continuing to be swindled, or otherwise continues to thwart Scientology's efforts to rook their loved one, Scientology will order their victim to "disconnect" from their family -- all for their follower's own good, of course. Broken families is what Scientology creates when one family member falls for the scam and other family members do not.

In fact, relationships between a Scientologist and the rest of his family routinely improve after he begins practicing Scientology because he has acquired the means to increase communication and address and resolve any problems that might have existed. -- No, what usually happens is that the family members of victims who fall in to Scientology are hurt, scared, and fearful to begin with. As the bank accounts drop and their loved one disappears more and more into the crime syndicate, the hurt turns into anger marked with desperation. Very often other family members will attempt to contact anti-cult organizations to try to get help getting their loved one out of Scientology. As time passes, attempts to talk devolve into heated arguments as family members attempt to reason with their brainwashed loved one. If any progress is made, the family member reports it back to Scientology either as a "Knowledge Report," as Scientologists call them, or as "confessions" during "Auditing," as Scientology calls it. At that point family members are called "PTS" and the criminal enterprise steps between their victim and the rest of their family.

The Church goes to great lengths to reconcile family differences should a problem arise. -- No, the lengths they go to are to try to get the family members to shut up and allow Scientology to rook and swindle every last dime out of the family without intervention.

For example, Scientology Chaplains will assist family members to come together and work to discover the real cause of their disagreements. -- And that's a profound lie. To begin with, there are no "chaplains" inside the Scientology criminal enterprise in any true sense of the word. "1. A member of the clergy attached to a chapel. 2.a. A member of the clergy who conducts religious services for an institution, such as a prison or hospital. b. A member of the clergy who is connected with a royal court or an aristocratic household. 3. A member of the clergy attached to a branch of the armed forces." Most importantly, however, Scientologists lack any psychology training in helping people overcome differences or disagreements yet that's not really the point: Most often the only disagreement that family members have when a loved one falls into the criminal enterprise is the very fact that they've fallen for the fraud in the first place and are being swindled. Obviously Scientology won't help family members solve the core problem since the problem is Scientology.

Friends and family of Scientologists are always welcome to visit the Church, to meet other Scientologists and to have any questions they may have about Scientology answered. -- And that's complete nonsense as well. Walk in to any Scientology business and ask them about the Galactic ruler named Xenu and the invisible murdered space aliens they call "Body Thetans" that infest humans and they'll either profess to not know what you're talking about else they'll likely give you some lie about how such notions were created by people who hate their "religion." You can ask about Scientology's criminal "Guardian Office" and be told lies. You can ask about the massively criminal "Operation Snow White" indictments many Scientologists were imprisoned for and be told lies. Ask about any core Scientology belief and you'll be lied to. Ask about L. Ron Hubbard's Navy records and Scientology will not only lie to you, they may even give you written booklets that are complete fabrications.
Regardless of whether the other family members choose to become Scientologists or not, Scientologists take deep pride in their record of resolving family problems and conflicts. -- And in fact no, they don't. Scientologists recognize their complete lack of credibility ot in the real world to the point that they are forced to create endless fake fronts such as their latest scam they call their "Volunteer Ministers." Scientology's leaders and their followers know that the real world treats Scientology as either a sinister, demonic cult, a circus joke, an object of ridicule, and a criminal scam. There's nothing to take pride in within the Scientology organization.

We've taken time looking at Scientology's claims about family since the organization desperately wants to gain some kind of acceptance out in the real world and nobody can disagree that family is one of the most important aspects of society which works to hold society together. The basis of Scientology's involvement with the families of followers of the organization, however, is solely a financial one with the hope of getting as much money out of their victims as possible for as long as possible.

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