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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I really like your point of view. When i started researching the scientology organisation, it was important for me to know something is true before I believe it. I then listened to a bunch of anti-scientology videoes and so on, and I needed to find out myself. I went to the a scientology organisation and got their side, and one of the most blowing things I heard was: “you should never believe in something someone says before you actually experience it to be true”. This is very important because if you actually listen to what they say to you, you will hear certain things over and over again: “Read a book and tell me what you think”. And thats what I did, and it was amazing how much I actually agreed with.
Okey so another thing I wanted to mention was that some people say that they have been haunted by scientologists and been disconnected from their families and so on. I took the PTS/SP course they have, and it tells you to either HANDLE or DISCONNECT from people that supresses you. For me it absolutely makes perfect sense; just because you have a parent, doesnt mean you have to put up with supression and/or even psysical abuse. Think about it, did you ever have a friend that just made you feel like crap? This after you tried to tell him that he’s treating you badly, and he still continues to treat you like crap? You most obviously disconnected from him and realized you were off much better than keeping up with his crap. This is a good solution, some people are supressive and you do not need them in your life, thats my personal opinion and it has definatly worked for me.
After studying scientology I realize that I am more focused and have a lot more energy that I had before. People communicate better with me, because they understand me better after learning how to improve communication etc. The scientologists have helped me a lot, and I’ve approved every change that it has done to me as a person.
Now, whats important to say is that not every scientologist is following what hubbard wanted. Some scientologists just worship Mr Hubbard for everything he says and doesnt know the other side. I was very critical at the beginning and I had to search around to other scientologists before I found someone who actually had some insight on critical point of views. Some scientologists are totally uncritical to what comes from hubbard and totally critical to everything that disagrees with him. I found that to be wrong, and I still do, but I can’t spesify clearly enough how important for me it was so find people who could give me the objective perspective on things.
It really made things feel right, and I do have a lot of positive outcomes from studying scientology, and certain things I know: Scientologists DO want me to find out for my self what is real to me, they give me what Hubbard said and its up to me to find out if its true or not, so I just wanted to say: Find out for yourself, it’s a lot of good research done by Hubbard that helped me and is still helping me in my life, and don’t believe someone just because they’ve been in scientology for 20 years, it’s does NOT mean they have a full perspective on what scientology is, it can mean that they have misunderstood words or essensial content.
To go back on topic… if you read books from the major religions you will find a lot of strange data. Please don’t belive me just open a book and ask yourself: “does this make any sense?”.
Try to read a Scientology book like “The Scientology handbook” and then decide for yourself if the data are valid or not.
If you like the knowledge Scientology offers, study it. If it doesn’t answer the questions you have follow something else… and leave Scientology alone.
To understandy why Scientology is using the legal system follow my example by comparing Scientology to a teacher that delivers courses on a subject “X”.
He delivers this course, the majority of the people like it and they let other people know about this course.
Now some people, lets say 2 out of 100 don’t like this teacher and they attack him legally to grab the money that he gained with all his teachings.
He continues teaching and expanding and he handles these 2 guys with the legal system.
Now these two guys object him using the legal system and spread around the information that this teacher is not a teacher and that they are poor victims of him… while they started to attack him and while the number of students of that teacher grew and grew.
These two suppressive guys changed the way of attacking this teacher, they wrote to the media, they lied left and right, they put masks on, they say that they “were Scientologists”, they said a lot of things but the real story is that they were just suppressive persons and they just attack groups that are positive and try to help, and they ally themselves with antisocial groups.
That is the story.
….. what’s the end of it?… the good always wins!
A wonderful article…. In my life, I have never seen a man be so selfless in helping others around him to get along and get working. I feel good that there are people like you too. Thanks for this great weblog of yours. Its surely going to get me to go to higher places!