Church of Scientology: Mad, Bad, But Not Nearly As Dangerous As The Big Faiths - Sabotage Times22 March 2011, 6:50 am
If you were to bullet-point Scientology’s main tenets on a sheet of A4 paper, secrete it about your person and leap off the nearest multi-storey car park with a space hopper gaffer-taped to your arse, firstly, no one would be surprised – you’ve always been an attention-seeking twat. And secondly, the note police would duly find in amongst the bits of burst thorax and vulcanised rubber would all but confirm their initial suspicions: that you were a mentally defective peyote-fiend who, in the midst of a fatal psychotic episode, had unwittingly mistaken a child’s inflatable conveyance for the Mothership. Nanu-nanu, and case closed.
Yep, there’s no getting away from it, Scientology’s premise is fucking nuts: intergalactic tyrants, sticky Thetans, exploding volcanoes. But after a good, hard look at the bigger picture, I feel obliged to ask you this: are L. Ron Hubbard’s goofball precepts really any more preposterous than virgin births, magic hippies or transubstantiation? If you’re struggling to find it, the answer is no.
A lot’s been said of California’s third favourite cult bona fide religion. And not much of it has been that flattering. Words like “sinister”, “controlling”, “money-grabbing” and “fartclouds” get bandied about with alarming frequency (accusations that could easily have been cut and pasted from Catholicism’s charge sheet, by the way). A situation certainly not helped by their reaction to criticism. Say a bad word about them and, before you know it, a round-the-clock suits-and-sunglasses surveillance team has pulled up outside your house heralding a relentless campaign of slander and intimidation that invariably culminates in a bit of shouting and the revelation of a few sex crimes you don’t recall committing.
Say a bad word about them and, before you know it, a round-the-clock suits-and-sunglasses surveillance team has pulled up outside your house heralding a relentless campaign of slander and intimidation
Now before we continue, I’d just like to say I’m in no way condoning their actions. A David Miscavige apologist I am not. Nor am I willing to excuse his/their more obnoxious views, not least that Psychiatrists are responsible for the holocaust [having seen the hourly rate they charge, I’ve since re-evaluated my standpoint and am now more than happy to pin that one on the shrinks]. But what I will say in Scientology’s defence is unlike Christianity, Islam, Judaism, the one with the cool headgear, and the one where they worship a pantheon of deities that look like the first draft of a particularly poor Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, you can count the amount of people Scientology has slaughtered in the name of its god with the fingers on Rick Allen’s left hand.
more at
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