Scientology's®
Claims
From: publicrelations@scientology.org
Is Scientology open to anyone?
Scientology is open to anyone who seeks spiritual betterment. The
materials that make up Scientology scripture are readily available
at churches of Scientology and public libraries throughout the world.
Churches and missions are always open to the public and anyone can
come in for a tour and personally see what the Church is all about.
Scientologists come from all walks of life, and range from teachers
to businessmen and women, doctors, housewives, attorneys, engineers,
nurses, construction workers, celebrities, marketing and administrative
personnel, secretaries, athletes, civil servants and others.
Robert
And now for the truth
There's a little bit of wishful thinking here, it looks like, yet in
reality there's nothing "spiritual" about the bait-and-switch
Bunko frauds Scientology sells to its victims. Real
religions that actually do offer spiritual enlightenment don't
charge their followers extortionist amounts of money for the privelage
of finding out what their own religion is actually about. Scientology
not only doesn't tell its victims what they're buying upfront but they
also change what Scientology internally calls their "Shore Story"
about what Scientology is after victims pay more and more money to obtain
"higher levels" of the bait-and-switch scam.
While Scientology also doesn't have "scriptures," what it does
have are once-secret documents, a great many of which have been made
part of the public record thanks to lawsuits filed against the crime
syndicate by victims who presented the bait-and-switch documentary
evidence into the court record. And no, contrary to what the official
spokesperson claims above, these once-secret documents aren't available
at your local library and no, while you can walk into an office of the
crime syndicate and ask to read these documents, they'll not allow you
to read them unless you pay them tens of thousands of dollars for the
dubious privelage.
Why is Scientology lying to us?
Well, the short answer is that they're lying to us because if people find
out that Scientology is actually all about aliens from outer space that
attach themselves to humans and cause them mental, emotional, and physical
problems, nobody in their right mind would purchase such nonsense. When
followers pay a massive enough amount of money to purchase the right to
look at a copy of what's known as "OT3" -- or
"Operating Thetan Level 3" -- they find out that Scientology
has been lying to them up until now and that now the new "Shore
Story" is all about the Galactic ruler named Xenu, invisible murdered
space alien fragments that attach themselves to people called "Body
Thetans" and all the other flying-sauce science fiction nonsense
that forms the basis of Scientology.
Scientology isn't "open" by any sense of the word when it comes
to people being allowed to know what Scientology is upfront, and when it
comes to people being allowed to read Scientology's core beliefs without
being rooked out of tens of thousands of dollars.
Scientology isn't compatable with other religions, incidentally, and
Christians would find the fake "theology" Hbbard adopted for
tax exemption fraud to be telling. Check out What
Christians Should Know about the "Church" of Scientology
for coverage of just how closed Scientology is to followers of
real religion.
About the only thing that one might consider to be "open" about
Scientology is the fact that they'll take anybody's money if they can
work a scam to sucker it out of them. One horrible example of this level
of swindle is Raul Lopez who was
swindled out of damn near every last dime in what the prosecution called
the equal to a motorcycle gang passing around a virgin.
Subject: Is Scientology open to anyone?
Date: 2000/03/07
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