See http://www.clambake.org/archive/media.html

Some scientologists: Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

An exec at Cisco backs Hubbardist training: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/cisco_exec_backs_hubbardist_courses/

Sky Dayton and Reed Slatkin, were two scientologist founders of Earthlink. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlink

Started by Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1950

Claimed to be a wounded war hero.

Reader's Digest investigation found a war record with no battlefield experience or wounds

Died with at least $500 million

How should Christians deal with scientology?

"That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. Ephesians 4:14 (NKJV)

"Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known." Matthew 10:26 (KJV, NKJV)

Ephesians 5:11-13 (KJV,NKJV) "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them." For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light."

What They Believe

Why they are not compatible with Christianity

Understanding Them

How to Talk with Them

76 trillion years ago thetans (spirits) existed (Scientology: 8-8008 p.76)

They created their own universes, and they jointly created the physical universe. (Scientology: 8-8008 p.6)

Thetans inhabited robots and organic bodies (Have You Lived Before This Life p.132)

Xemu/xenu, evil ruler of 9 planets spread his evil with thermonuclear bombs. He put thetans in 10 or more volcanoes on earth. He then put aberrations in the thetans. (Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality p.432)

Humans go back 74 billion years, possibly on the planet Venus. A long-lost civilization destroyed by evil forces on the planet Helatrobus 40 trillion years ago. The defeated thetans were exiled to earth, where they were in ignorance until Hubbard enlightened them of their place in the Galactic Federation. Scientology : What Do They Believe? p.17 Reader's Digest Sept.1981.

A thetan trap can knock a thetan into forgetting. Have You Lived Before This Life p.134

During one session the auditee had images of "a green humanoid with a trunk-like proboscis", the planet Venus, and a web-footed female. Have You Lived Before This Life p.128

What would a typical doctor say if a patient told him his tuberculosis and other problems were due to what that happened to him 2 trillion years ago in a physical universe many galaxies away? (Have You Lived Before This Life p.249) He got deceived into a love affair with a lovely red-haired robot for 50 years. [Watch out for those red-haired robots!] Later he moved away to another planet 48 galaxies away. (Have You Lived Before This Life p.250-251)

Psychiatry/Psychology

Education and Laws

Science : Humans do not go back 74 billion years

History: Early Christians did not believe reincarnation, but rather wrote against it.

They have lost lawsuits with the IRS, and the government in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, and France.

They are filed many lawsuits against those that left or criticized them.

People have problems because of "engrams" stored in their reactive mind at the cellular level

These come from painful experiences, being under nitrous oxide or hypnosis, and most severe are things that happened to their mother while they were in the womb.

Example: A large portion of feeble-minded children are attempted abortion cases. (Dianetics p.191)

You can be "clear" by paying for auditing sessions.

Reality is not just what is perceived

Reincarnation is wrong (Heb 9:27-28; 2 Sam 12:23)

Xenu did not put evil aberrations in us

We, not engrams, are responsible for evil

Ethics includes honesty, integrity, and truth

Love our enemies, don't be out to get them

Scientology is not involved in evolving us from homo sapiens to homo novis

God, not man, holds the key to the future

Initial motivation: want to solve real or imagined problems, or raise IQ

Often very gullible

Defensive mentality against the non-scientologists ("The Enemy")

A scientologist gets 10-15 % commission on counseling and training he or she sells.

One of the crimes (a misdemeanor) in scientology is decline in income or traffic (Introduction to Scientology Ethics p.41)

They lose their training certificates and money when they are declared a "suppressive".

Introduction to Scientology Ethics gives a number of high crimes.

First degree murder, arson, etc. (p.51)

"Public statements against Scientology or Scientologists but not to Committees of Evidence duly convened" (p.50)

"public resigning staff or executive position in protest or with intent to suppress." (p.50)

"Announcing departure from Scientology (p.52), "Seeking to resign or leave courses or sessions and refusing to return despite normal efforts." (p.52)

Some join similar New Age groups or become disillusioned with all religion

Many who leave will become bitter

They have to know they are lost in a lie, before they want to seek the truth

Nine Points to Share

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by Steven M. Morrison, PhD.