Lies Debunked: How does Scientology view marriage and the family?

These lies from the Scientology organization are simply a continuation of the previous claims with some more outrageous additions. Let's take a look at these latest claims in detail:

• Scientology regards the family as the building block of any society and marriage as an essential component of a stable family life. -- That's a lie. Within the Scientology crime syndicate the family comes after the group as part of what Scientology's mad messiah L. Ron Hubbard called "Dynamics." The good of the group -- in this case Scientology -- is more important than the good of the family which Hubbard called a "lessor dynamic." Obviously money is what's best for Scientology and when family members try to keep their loved ones from being rooked and swindled by the Scientology organization, followers are told to "disconnect" from their family for what the organization calls "the greatest good for the greater dynamic."

• People often find that after they begin practicing Scientology, their relationships with their spouses and other family members strengthen dramatically. -- Well, doubtlessly Scientologists that fall in to the criminal organization may very well hold that opinion yet family members who watch their loved ones' personality change and their bank accounts empty doubtlessly hold different opinions.

• That is because Scientology teaches an individual to communicate more freely with others, raises his capacity to love other people and puts him in better communication with family and friends. -- No, Scientology engages in mind altering procedures which are designed to make followers pliable and open to suggestion and neither love nor the ability to communicate freely factor into the equation. Indeed, open and free discussions about what Scientology's history is and what it actually sells to its followers are forbidden within the Scientology organization. Followers who discuss such things are written up in what Scientology calls "Knowledge Reports" and followers who persist in "nattering" about the truth about Scientology are often "assigned ethics conditions," as the organization calls it -- punishments which followers are subjected to to make them stop. If they persist, followers may find themselves shipped off to re-education camps called the RPF or "Rehabilitation Project Force."

• Surveys have found that after participating in Scientology services, individuals are more likely to marry or stay married and to have children than before they became Scientologists. -- Well while such a claim is doubtlessly amusing, they're also unverifiable. Scientology likes to make such claims after they pretend to conduct such "studies" themselves, often using a fake front to conduct such "studies." If in fact Scientology's magical "services" actually worked, they would be recognized and applied world-wide. And for that matter, if they actually worked, Scientology wouldn't be selling their "services" at extortionist prices; they wold be widely available for free all over the world.

As I mentioned previously, the basis of Scientology's involvement with the families of followers of the organization is solely a financial one with the hope of getting as much money out of their victims as possible for as long as possible. The organization's "Volunteer Minister" fake front is simply the criminal organization's latest public relations scam designed to keep the money flowing in to Scientology's pockets.

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