Catholic Church vs. Modern Religion Scientology
Filed under: News | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: April 2, 2008 | 203 Comments
I am not a religious man; however I do not go a day without someone talking about The Church of Scientology or the Catholic Church. The funny thing is most people also dismiss something or criticize something before they have learned anything about it, and I am guilty of that like a number of you are.
I have always made fun of the Church of Scientology assuming it to be some sort of cult, but naive people do that. Trust me I am never going to become religious, but when you look deeper into the workings of this new modern religion it gets you thinking that it is not that bad after all.
The thing is when you join the Catholic Church you are joining a huge organization, one of the richest in fast. But are you just a number to them, I don’t know, however when you want to join the Church of Scientology you work with people one-on-one to help to give you a better life. Well that is what is says in L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics.
As with any religion there are always good and bad points, if you was going to choose a new faith would it be the old Catholic Church or the new modern religion The Church of Scientology.
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The source article at Livenews given at the bottom of this ‘review# is an April Fools Day pisstake, written by a longtime critic of Scientology.
Guess the Scientologist who wrote this just didn’t get the joke… sad.
The beliefs aren’t the problem. The practices are. When Catholic Bishops were molesting kids they were protested, and the church absolutely did NOT attack the people who were outraged over it.
Scientology repeatedly abuses it’s members, especially the kids who grow up in Scientology. Sexual and Physical abuse is not uncommon. They split families apart if they feel family members have more control over their members than the Church has over them.
The families need to be Reconnected,
Read some of their stories at http://www.exscientologykids.org
I did choose the Catholic Church when I turned 30, after three decades of involvement in various Christian denominations. Initially was impressed with the historicity and tradition … but I stayed for the sacraments. First as a single woman, and ultimately a married mother of two, I came to realize how much I needed those graces in my life. It’s a decision I’ve never regretted.
I don’t know much about Scientology, and so won’t spread my ignorance here. I will say that I found my place in the Church in much the same way you describe here … by becoming a part of a local community, and investing myself there. If all you do is slip in and out of Mass, it is easy to get lost. Life is about relationships.
You can read more about my conversion story here.
As an adoptive mother of two, I’ve experienced a renewed appreciation for the spiritual motherhood of the Blessed Mother as well. I write about that in my book “Behold Your Mother” and related blog here.
Scientology is most assuredly a dangerous cult and a vicious multinational corporation. Don’t be fooled by their smooth talk and slick presentation. For true and accurate info about Scientology, please visit this site: http://www.youfoundthecard.com
Scientology is easy to figure out. Look at the guy who made it up. He was a dirt-bag who couldn’t hold his own families together. One kid killed himself. One wife went to jail. Another kid hated him. The dirt-bag died crazy, scared of germs, all drugged up. That’s L Ron Hubbard.
I wouldn’t touch his “modern religion”
Scientology (scientology.org) is all denominational. It does not dictate how to view / pray / have a personal relationship with God.
It focuses on the fact that a person is an immortal spiritual being. With this heightened sense of spiritual awareness, a person’s personal religion or spiritual path (whatever it is) is enhanced.
All religions have one truth in common: A person is an immortal spiritual being and the body is only a vessel.
Scientology does not teach a person how to pray because Scientology’s God is MONEY. The Scientologist instead shows his devotion to God by giving all of his or her money to Scientology. That is how worship happens in Scientology: Paying fixed donations to go up the Bridge. BTW, Mr. Lightfield, why is all of the mass of agreement with the critics?
How can Scientology really be a religion if it doesn’t have an icon? This is something that really confuses me…
Also, this article is rather poorly written. You could at least substantiate your claims, and cite more sources, and so on.
Mr. Lightfield: Your assessment of the commonalities of all religion is not entirely correct. While the first part is true — man is an intrinsically spiritual being — the second is not. According to classic Christian theology, human beings are a body-soul composite. This is how we differ substantively from the angels on one hand, and animals on the other. (While animals have a sensible soul, only humans have a rational soul.)
This principle is at the heart of Catholic teaching in particular. Man is made in the image of God — and God reveals Himself to man through the sensory world. That is why the Incarnation was a necessary part of redemption.
I was a Scientology staff training supervisor, and other positions, on staff myself, in the Scienotlogy movement, from 1975 until 2003, when I quit. I think the people who are on staff in Scientology trying to make the Scientology/Hubbard system work, provide the main goodness that one gets from Scientology. I found, after years of working and contemplating all the “results” (which frankly are NOT forthcoming, in the end) disappointing. Scientology/Hubbard profess to make super-people out of people, releasing people of all the mental and spiritual restraints allowing one to suppsosedly rise to pure spirit status, so one as a pure spirit can operate free of one’s body, etc. It doesn’t happen. People do NOT become pure spirits able to operate freely, move about, “soul travel” (Scientology/Hubbard call it “exteriorization”). Instead one finds layers and layers of built up rules and penalties, quite cult like, in the final analysis, in my opinion.
There is much leading through the nose with the high sounding platitudes and “wisdom” of Hubbard/Scientology, but there is NO spiritual pot of gold for MOST Scientologists, but a rather disappointing mindset, top members are heavily penalized for speaking freely publicly even about Scientology’s “body thetans” (detached souls of dead humanoids/aliens, the “body thetans” attach to every one of us on earth today, to the tune of tens of thousands of “body thetans” affixed unknowingly to ALL of us until we complete Scientology/s/Hubbard’s highest spiritual procedures called “OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7″ which are detailed spiritual procedures that take years to rise to qualify to engage in, and thousands of dollars of “fixed donations” in the church’s remunerative donation system, known commonly as “pay as you go” donation system). No, in my opinion follow Hubbard’s advice, and if you plan to quit, to “….quit fast….”, this is what Hubbard said as a challenge to people who might not be really serious about getting on board and sticking with Scientology. Get into Scientology and you will see for yourself, probably too late, that Scientology does NOT deliver the goods. It delivers on a sociological/psychological level some satisfaction, based on whichever good group of people you encounter in whichever Scientology church you flounder about in for a while. Good people stuck in L. Ron Hubbard’s galactic level science fictionesque quasi-therapeutic new religious movement cult, selling the similar spiritual “nirvana” “exteriorization” “soul travel” stuff that other spiritual/mystical/religious groups have sold all throughout human history. Quit fast, is one Hubbard statement I agree with! - Chuck Beatty
ex Scientology staffer (1975-2003)
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