Confirmed: Scientology Is Rubbish
Thursday 01 September 2005
by Tashi Tagg

"If You Want To Get Rich, Start A Religion."

Ive just read an article entitled Mendacious Messiah, in the August edition of The Big Issue, and it was excellent because it confirmed that Scientology is the biggest load of rubbish ever.

The thing thats interesting about it is that the reasons its such rubbish are hysterical and include the fact that L. Ron Hubbard totally invented Scientology and is a liar of the most humungous proportions.

The storys by Guy Whyckham and says that Hubbard claimed to have fought in wars and didnt, he claims to have a PhD but its from a university that doesnt exist, and that essentially Scientology is an extension of his stupid Science Fiction books that didnt sell well.

Ha! This is how it all started - in the 1940s, when he discovered he was very prolific and wrote books that were totally fiction because he had no clue about anything that had to with science.

The groupies he got were amongst young people who were into Sci-Fi and the article gives this brilliant quote of his from the time: "If you want to get rich, start a religion."

All this shows that Scientologys not actually a scary cult at all, because its so totally ridiculous. I mean, how could you possibly make up who you are so completely and then not get stressed that someones going to find out that its all based on lies?

Also, not only is Hubbard a crazed liar but hes also a plagiarist. The article gives examples of how he took ideas from sources that were very legitimate then changed them and simplified them and turned them into his own mumbo jumbo.

And! - this worries me - what does all this say about Steven Spielberg? He cast Tom Cruise in War of The Worlds, which suggests hes supportive of the religion - which I just dont understand. I just dont see how someone who could make a movie as awesome as E.T. could possibly accept this.

Unless of course theyre in cahoots and the Scientology bigwig types know Spielberg knows and neither of them are telling Tom Cruise because hes their biggest marketing stool.

After Hubbard decided that he wasnt selling enough of his science fiction in the 1940s, he realised the thing about religion and money and wrote Dianetics, which is obviously made-up - sort of like Propolis and Boswolox in that skin cream stuff.

Then he set about finding the right groups to target that had a lot of money. A quote from the article:

"People of low self-esteem and low ego-strength get drawn into such cults because membership affords them instant (if spurious) status. They are given to believe they are now part of a spiritual elite, and any antagonism they or the cult attracts is perceived as persecution and feeds the delusion."

Is that Tom Cruise having a freak-out hissy on Parkinson or what? When asked about Scientology on the show, thats exactly how he responded - as if he were being persecuted for just having been asked the question.

Surely this has to mean that somewhere, deep down, he knows what rubbish it is? Does he perhaps really need it as much as it needs him? How can you be so successful and throw it away like that?

The other interesting thing about the article is that it discusses Scientology in a South African context and says that because the religions always gone with what the fashions are, during apartheid Hubbard was very supportive of the apartheid governments crimes, because of course they were the ones with the moolah.

It even has a quote from a letter Hubbard wrote to Verwoerd, congratulating him on his Hitlerian policies, and in 2003 the religion claimed it was responsible for showing the world hidden psychiatric camps that enslaved thousands of black people.

I absolutely believe everything the article says about every aspect of Hubbard being a liar, which is reinforced over and over again by how complicated Scientology is, how secretive it is and by how many volumes of Dianetics there are to get through.

And hidden in one of them is a quote the article references from a 1988 volume of Dianetics: "The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe."

Can you believe that? I mean, it doesnt even vaguely make sense and is nothing more than a group of words randomly put together to get across racist sentiment. But Tom Cruise doesnt talk about that in his interviews does he? Oh nooo. Unless of course hes never actually read Dianetics because of his dyslexia.

Thats the other interesting tidbit - the article says that one of the ways it works is by using different groups as a front to get through its message - it lists an organisation called Narconon for drug and alcohol rehab, which is obviously similar to the whole dyslexia thing Tom Cruises got going on.

I actually dont understand how any of this can be legal. I mean, how can it be okay to set up an organisation and then trick people into believe something thats based on such principles?

I see theres a Church of Scientology in downtown Cape Town on Bree Street - how can that be allowed to be there? Whenever Ive driven past Ive gotten the rigor because I want to go in to find out more but at the same time my minds made up and I just dont see anything changing it.

I had a message from a Scientologist once after I wrote something about it, asking what I wanted to know. I never thought of anything because I just dont see anything changing my mind about it.

Especially not now that Ive read this article. I mean, I thought maybe Hubbard was some kind of genius who really did have breakthrough ways of culting, and possibly helped people in some sort of weirdo way. But Scientology isnt even that. Instead its based on fashionably elitist and prejudiced ideology, while claiming to be otherwise, and is all based on lies.

I was going to end by screaming out: "It should be banned - pull down the building in Bree Street!" But of course thats impossible because its a religion. That sacrosanct place where no matter what it preaches it doesnt matter because its protected from the laws of blasphemy and everyones right to practice it.

If theres anything Hubbard was cunning about it was that. The way he somehow managed to avoid the word "cult" being the only word used with Scientology.

Also the way its infiltrated Hollywood. He may have known it could attract the movie stars, being so interested in Sci-Fi etc and John Travolta.

OMG, I just remembered - Johns one too - he made that whole ridiculous Battlefield Earth which was supposed to be about Scientology.

Im actually not coping - whats real and whats not? Its like the movies have become the world and the world has become the movies and theres a branch of Scientology up the road from me where Iafrica.com used to be.

You know, this is the thing that disappoints me about Hollywood - theyll make movies and stories that are so much about breaking through and being free of the brainwashing, yet it perpetuates this sort of rubbish.

Did you happen to see the article? What do you think about it all? Mos defs rubbish?

http://www.tashitagg.com/features/00935.asp

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