Defectors, including the actor Leah Remini, have accused the church of fostering a culture of abuse.
Last week, Remini weighed in on the social media trend, calling it “unhelpful”.
“If someone is brainwashed for years into believing the outside world is filled with dangerous lunatics who wish to impede Scientology, a group of people running through a Scientology building is only going to confirm that belief and lead them to dedicate themselves even more to the cause they believe in,” Remini wrote on X.
“Please focus on exposing the dangers of Scientology, not making a spectacle out of it.”
Yep. This is the kind of stuff a cult would use as ammunition to prove to its members that the outside world is unsafe.
They don’t strike me as being particularly bothered by things like the truth.
“According to the OT III account, Xenu was an extraterrestrial ruler of a galactic confederacy who, tens of millions of years ago, transported billions of beings to Earth (then called Teegeeack), placed them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs. The disembodied spirits of the victims, called thetans, are said to have become attached to surviving bodies as “body thetans”, contributing to spiritual and psychological difficulties in the present day. Scientology teaches that these entities can be identified and released through specialized procedures at the upper Operating Thetan levels.”
Forgot who we were talking about tbh lol. I do think real life examples might help, but you’re certainly not wrong that plenty of other things kinda gotta be glossed over to get to that point anyway.
Yep. This is the kind of stuff a cult would use as ammunition to prove to its members that the outside world is unsafe.
Lacking any actual ammunition they will just go back to inventing stuff anyway so I’m not sure it really makes a difference.
While I agree with you, I will just add that maybe it does; If only because the best lies are those hidden with a grain of truth.
They don’t strike me as being particularly bothered by things like the truth.
“According to the OT III account, Xenu was an extraterrestrial ruler of a galactic confederacy who, tens of millions of years ago, transported billions of beings to Earth (then called Teegeeack), placed them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs. The disembodied spirits of the victims, called thetans, are said to have become attached to surviving bodies as “body thetans”, contributing to spiritual and psychological difficulties in the present day. Scientology teaches that these entities can be identified and released through specialized procedures at the upper Operating Thetan levels.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Forgot who we were talking about tbh lol. I do think real life examples might help, but you’re certainly not wrong that plenty of other things kinda gotta be glossed over to get to that point anyway.