Is the Church of Scientology compatible with Christianity?

Currently the leaders of the Scientology cult claim that it is. The writings of the mad messiah, L. Ron Hubbard, and the ideals and policies that he developed and wrote for the Church of Scientology to blindly follow, seem to paint a totally different answer.

You decide:

o "There are gods above all other gods, and gods beyond the gods of the universes." (Scientology 8-8008, pp.

72-3).

o "The whole Christian movement is based on the victim.... A Scientologist is not a victim.... We can win by converting victims. Christianity succeeded in making people into victims. We can succeed by making victims into people" (HCO Bulletin, 18 July 1959).

o "Neither Lord Buddha, nor Jesus Christ were OT's according to the evidence. They were just a shade above clear" (Ability, No. 81, 1959).

o Scientology claims that it alone "brings man to total freedom and truth" (A Description of the Scientology Religion, p. 57). Isn't this what Jesus died for?

o "It is despicable and utterly beneath contempt to tell a man he must repent, that he is evil" (Professional Auditor Bulletin [PAB] #31, 23 July 1954). "For all have sinned" is a Christian ideal.

o "Nobody but the individual can die for his sins" (HCO Bulletin, 2 January 1960). Isn't this what Jesus died for?

o "It is a basic tenet of Scientology that man is basically good.... Sin is composed... of lies and hidden actions and is therefore untruth" (What is Scientology? p. 546).

o "Hell is a total myth, an invention just to make people unhappy and is a vicious lie" (PAB #130, 15 Feb. 1958). Is L. Ron Hubbard being punished for his sins against God even now?

o "Religion...being basically a control mechanism used by those who have sent the preclear into a body. You will find the cross as a symbol all over the universe, and the Christ legend as an implant in preclears millions of years ago" (PAB #31, 23 July 1954).

o In Scientology's Class 8 course, lecture 10, (3 October 1968) Hubbard taught, "Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ" (Corydon and Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman? p. 362). [Note 1] o "Also the Christian church used (and uses) implanting....

They took over the Nicene Creed before the year zero, invented Christ (who comes from the crucifixion in R6 75M years ago, and implanted their way to power" (HCO Bulletin, 23 September 1968, Class VIII). [Note 1] o Hubbard claimed that through "scientific research,"

not opinion, he went to heaven. He wrote, "For a long while some people have been cross with me for my lack of cooperation in believing in a Christian Heaven, God, and Christ. I have never said that I didn't disbelieve in a Big Thetan, but there was something very corny about heaven, et. al.... There was a heaven.... Yes, I've been to Heaven. And so have you. You have the pattern of its implants.... The Symbol of the crucified Christ is very apt indeed. It's the symbol of a thetan betrayed.... The place is so full of lies by implant that the preclear becomes quite confused.... somebody discovered ...and utilized them to install religious mania and pin thetans down to 'one life' and planets"

("Routine 3", HCO Bulletin, 11 May, A.D. 13 [pub. 1963] pp. 1-3).

o "But I imagine when we finally manage to communicate with beetles under rocks and free them, we'll no doubt find the Creator of Heaven who 43+ trillion years ago designed the Pearly Gates and entrapped us all. Good Lord, I'd hate to be guilty of that overt" (Ibid., p.4) o August Murphy, president of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco wrote, "Another basic concept Scientology shares with universal religious thought is reincarnation. Like Buddhism, Hinduism, and early Christianity, Scientology believes that the individual as an immortal being has assumed many bodies in his evolution in the physical universe toward an ultimate realization and freedom from material bondage" (The News-Herald, 27 July 1992 p. 5).

o Hubbard claims that reincarnation was a belief held by the early Christian church and was removed by "four monks" at the "synod of Constantinople" in 553 A.D.

(Have You Ever Lived Before This Life? p. 2).

o L. Ron Hubbard created an entire universal cosmology that includes an evil Galactic Ruler named Xenu. He places humans on other planets in the Solar System, including Mars and Venus. He populates billions of planets in the universe with people. Do they all have Jesus for their redemption? The Bible doesn't mention any of them. (OT III, see http://www.xenu.net/) o L. Ron Hubbard claims that Scientology can give people supernatural powers including the power to heal the sick, both body and mind. Hubbard also created a ritual he called "touch assist" which is a Demonic version of the laying on of hands which does not call upon God's power. (See The Road to Xenu, by Margery Wakefield, for example.)

So what do you think about the Church of Scientology's claim that their religion is some how compatible with Christianity?

-=- [Note 1] The Church of Scientology claims that the documents which comprise "Operating Thetan Level 8" are forgeries. It is therefore surprising to note that when the Church of Scientology raided the home of Arnie Lerma for alleged copyright violations, the Church of Scientology identified copies of the OT8 documents as copyrighted materials belonging to their Church. Was that an error or does the Church of Scientology disavow L. Ron Hubbard's ideals and policies out of both embarrassment and the fact that his goal is to covertly lead as many people away from Jesus and redemption as possible?

-=- These ideals and policies of L. Ron Hubbard were collected and published on the Internet and out in the real world by the Watchman Fellowship. http://www.watchman.org/hubrel03.htm This list was modified by Fredric Rice to the extent that some clean-up and further commentary was added. Fredric Rice also added some additional items to the list which contradict totally Scientology's claim that they're some how compatible with Christianity.

Additions and corrections to this list should be sent to Fredric Rice at frice@skeptictank.org -- We're the ARSCC (wdne.) Our motto is: "We don't go away!"

Sorry Fred, but the object of the game is to destroy evil. ;-) - T. T.

Wow. Next the Mafia will want to start performing weddings. - Shydavid http://www.skeptictank.org/ http://www.xenu.net/ http://holysmoke.org/

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