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WHAT ETERNAL GOOD DOES TOM CRUISE DO BY MARKETING SCIENTOLOGY?
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

MichNews.com

Jun 29, 2005

What Scientology fails at is truth.

Scientology is all about Me. It's my happiness and money success.

Scientology is not about my sins, my need for repentance, my total inability to redeem my soul, my need for a Savior who provides His holy sacrifice by which to rescue my hell-bent soul.

Scientology is amoral. But there is no such entity as "amoral." It is moral or immoral. When something is referred to as amoral it is immoral. There is no middle ground between righteousness and unrighteousness. All is either smiled upon by heaven or urged on by hell. The only entities that may be regarded as "amoral" are inanimate objects such tables and chairs.

Christianity presents the truth that the mortal is born in sin. Mortal is in need of a Redeemer who presents Himself as holy before heaven's courts, providing His own life as a ransom for repentant souls.

Christianity is based upon the New Testament records. There one reads that Christ died for our sins, in our place, providing justice in the heavenly courts for mortals not able to provide that justice themselves due to their sinful natures.

Scientology has no place for heaven or hell. There is no Judgment Seat of Christ. There is no accountability at death.

It is all about now and one's earthly successful future. There are symbols and terms and definitions in Scientology that waylay the inquirer from the Bible into the writings of Ronald Hubbard, an esoteric visionary given to wild imaginative spinning.

In other words, Satan has manufactured still another cult based on man's ability to redeem himself. However, such redemption totally focuses on this earthly sojourn. In that self-redemption, ethics are defined as working for Scientology, growing in mind through Scientology, applying the techniques for self-expansion via Scientology, mastering founder Hubbard's tools for self-happiness.

Satan takes all praise and glory from Redeemer Christ for all honor and esteem granted Hubbard and his wild spheres of inner ascendancy. Hubbard, in other words, espouses the teachings of Satan as Lucifer - the Angel of Light. Hubbard presents the evil one as the gospel of the inner understanding.

Satan appears in gross state in order to lead mortals astray, away from Savior Christ. For instance, Satan appears in drug trips and drunken stupors, in murder lust and sexual perversions. In other words, Satan appears in all the obviously immoral venues of this spiritually fallen planet.

But Satan also appears dressed in fine clothing, espousing ethics and wisdom, gathering for fellowship and sharing, delving into the meaning of life, investigating the definition of the soul, and testifying to having discovered higher levels of personal accomplishment.

Scientology is Satan dressed in fine grab. However, many have found Scientology's dark side to be clothed in murder and intrigue, kidnapping and lies, deceit and fear. One of the most insightful sites for exposing the dark side of Scientology is "ABC News 20/20 Exposure of Scientology Cult: Transcript" at http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/2020.htm .

So now we have Tom Cruise once again in the news. In this recent limelight given the actor, Scientology repeatedly comes to the fore.

The AP reports: "Tom Cruise says girlfriend Katie Holmes 'digs' the Church of Scientology. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cruise says the 26-year-old 'Batman Begins' actress is curious about Scientology, founded by L. Ron Hubbard.

"'Yes, absolutely. She digs it,' the 42-year-old actor tells the magazine.

"When asked if he's become more passionate about Scientology, Cruise says: 'I've always been passionate about it. I've always talked about it when people asked about it.'

"He also confirmed there was a Scientology massage tent on the set of his upcoming film, 'War of the Worlds.'

"'I also had a cappuccino tent on that set. And I made sure the crews were fed well, too. And if someone wanted an assist from a (Scientology) volunteer, it was there for them,' he says. 'People are curious about it - they're always asking me about it, they want to know what Scientology is.'"

"In an EW.com poll, 61 percent of respondents said they liked Cruise less now after the recent exhaustive attention to his personal life, 3 percent said they liked him more, and 36 percent said their viewpoint of the 'Top Gun' star hadn't changed."

Cruise, like many other famous individuals, particularly actors, furthers the cult of Scientology as Satan uses this means by which to direct eternal souls away from Christ to Hubbard.

Email: joseph_swank@yahoo.com

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