Scientology leader's niece reveals Church secrets

Agence-France Presse ^ | March 16, 2013

[dfwgator]

I thought it was the Divine Profit Church.

[Colofornian]

(’preciate you postin’ this)

[JoeDetweiler]

“What about the movie Battlefield Earth?”

Never saw it, or read the book. Was it really as bad as folks say it was?

[EEGator]

It made Ishtar seem decent.

[Cyman]

Oh my God they made children work? And take baths and probably brush their teeth , those animals.

I just now realized my parents were Scientologists.

[jonrick46]

I think they knew their treatment of their children was wrong. The treatment was hidden from notice to avoid the consequences. Hubbard believed that the first function of all of existence was to survive. He was using the children as guinea pigs to prove his theory.

[rrrod]

and body guards

[ravenwolf]

also claims she was forced to work as a child.

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Oh my God, unbelievable.

But the book could just make her a rich woman.

Follow the money.

[RikaStrom]

Well, at the risk of being controversial, I’ll just say that I think “Mission Earth” is NOT the worst book ever written.

At least the Edgar Winter music for it was pretty good.

I certainly hope this young lady has a body guard and a host of excellent lawyers.

[ravenwolf]

Oh my God they made children work? And take baths and probably brush their teeth , those animals.

I just now realized my parents were Scientologists.

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Yeah, ain,t it strange the way these wanta be famous people will come up with that kind of stuff, their cruel over seers give them work to do as if that was an un Godly act.

People need to wake up to the fact that there is nothing wrong with kids working, if there is then kids have been mistreated for thousands of years.

[PLMerite]

“Never saw it, or read the book. Was it really as bad as folks say it was?”

Yes. It’s 90 lost minutes of my life I mourn to this day. And the sad part of it was that I was watching it at home and could have turned the VCR off at any time...

[Calvin Locke]

4. By what definition do they claim themselves as religious?

One story that I heard about them finally getting the IRS label, is that John Travolta told Bill Clinton that he'd go easy on the BC character in some movie if he'd convince the IRS to give them the religion tax id...

Around the same time, give or take, Germany bestowed the "Cult" classification on the organization.

[Starstruck]

Never saw it, or read the book. Was it really as bad as folks say it was?

Thought the book was decent but the movie really sucked.

[null and void]

I think they knew their treatment of their children was wrong.

No. Never. Scientology is incapable of doing anything wrong!

[null and void]

Yes. It’s 90 lost minutes of my life I mourn to this day. And the sad part of it was that I was watching it at home and could have turned the VCR off at any time...

Like a train wreck, one just can't turn away.

[null and void]

People need to wake up to the fact that there is nothing wrong with kids working, if there is then kids have been mistreated for thousands of years.

Indeed, what has a few generations of preventing kids from doing any meaningful work brought us?

[null and void]

By what definition do they claim themselves as religious?

Scientology attempts to deal with man's fundamental spiritual nature. As such it is no less a religion than Buddhism.

The more interesting question is why does the US government decide what is and what isn't a religion?

[ravenwolf]

Indeed, what has a few generations of preventing kids from doing any meaningful work brought us?

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Right, i think most Christians used to teach the work ethic, now it seems to be anti God to even mention work.

[ravenwolf]

Scientology attempts to deal with man’s fundamental spiritual nature. As such it is no less a religion than Buddhism.

The more interesting question is why does the US government decide what is and what isn’t a religion?

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I think i see your point and have no argument with that in the context you put it.

But i believe the word religion comes from the word ritual, which was here long before Christianity, so i believe religion is the correct definition for any false Christian Church.

[null and void]

But i believe the word religion comes from the word ritual, which was here long before Christianity, so i believe religion is the correct definition for any false Christian Church.

Makes sense, since what distinguishes Christianity is the total absence of ritual from its practice...