Cult of Scientology launches video site

Someone should upload an educational video supplying the basic steps one can take to find ones way out of the closet. I hear Tom Cruise has often struggled with this.

The second link at the bottom needs fixing. 

It's funny how only america is stupid enough to officially recognise scientology as a religion. Where as civilized countries just laugh at it.

All three L'inqs are the same.

AT adds: I blame Xenu.

Innocuous suppression instead of blatant censorship?

http://crypticclarity.com/evidence-lots-of-screenshots-that-google-is-suppressing-contents-exposing-scientology/

Those evil cults have messed with your URLs :)

Mind you, Christianity has a much longer track record of duping its cultist membership. All religion is cult and therefore dangerous. What we need today is a Jihad against religion.
I had a look at the birthday video, I didn't know Scientology owns a cruise boat. They're still small potatoes tho.
I love how they hound their ex-members, it is delicious. I guess the majority of Scientologists don't *really* buy into that Xeno crap, but they dare not step out of the organization because of the wrath they will face. Fabulous mind control!
Buncha sheep (like Christians :GRIN!:)
I think the best religion is Zen Buddhism with all its bull-dada boggles. Fantastic!

Why would these deluded nuts want to air their drug induced insanity to the rest of the world? The best they can hope for is to steal some of Springers people...

I was outside the Scientology "Church" in Plymouth protesting in February - we also saw that press release - they didn't give it to us though, just stuck it to the inside of the window of their little building. :(

If you accept ANY religion as being valid, then you must also accept the Church of Scientology ... no matter how stupid you think they are. 

The only difference between a 'cult' and a 'religion' is whether or not the general population accepts the cult's existence.

There is fundamentally no difference between Scientology and Christianity. They both arose from lies and works of fiction. They both have been used to manipulate, steal, and victimize their followers, and neither will ever have the existence of their dieties proven. 

You may as well accept that you've been touched by His Noodly Appendage and carry on with your life, it's just as valid.

But I'm hoping that Thetan Sylvie's writing will sort me out.
From www.reference.com Thetan (soul):
When a person dies – or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons their physical body – they go to a "landing station" on the planet Venus, where the thetan is re-implanted and told lies about its past life and its next life. The Venusians take the thetan, "capsule" it, and send it back to Earth to be dumped into the ocean off the coast of California. Says Hubbard, "If you can get out of that, and through that, and wander around through the cities and find some girl who looks like she is going to get married or have a baby or something like that, you're all set. And if you can find the maternity ward to a hospital or something, you're OK. And you just eventually just pick up a baby." To avoid these inconveniences, Hubbard advised Scientologists to refuse to go to Venus after their death. 

Isn't this just ridic? Hubbard had mother issues. Ever'body kwik! Follow amanfromMars!

Cult of Skaro? or Cult of Hubbard?

Could someone please provide an objective definition of the difference between a Cult and a Religion? In both cases their members believe in things that can't be scientifically proven; how do we decide what crazy beliefs we are supposed to respect and which we are supposed to ridicule?

Unfortunately it's not only america which at least can be forgiven due to freedom of speech protecting blatant ignorance and stupidity.
No, that's right australia does too all hail the mighty xenu with his waxing of political hands and nuclear arms.
Remember ;) you can't hug children with nuclear arms! :P

When you not conscious or even aware of how you are constructed, you are merely paving the way for your own destruction. Being ignorant and blind of your complete infrastructure, you won’t know what or why you are born for. Much like those who are born-blind grappling with the concept of colour, those who have matured through copulating, corrupting & rationalising are susceptible to the tricks of their sub-conscious and supra-conscious.

At one moment, the desire for protein is unresistable whilst during lulls of activities, carbohydrates become the focus for irrational consumption. Those who cannot resist the desire for the comfort of an omnipresent “force” are “serviced” by those who cannot resist the desire to cure, educate, cleanse, modify, save, expose, and mould others. Attraction of the opposites is meant to realise balance but when those drunk with power are as blind as those ready for the oncoming flood of truth, the tango becomes the perpetuation of myths. A case of the blind idiot leading the blinded lunatic.

There is no such a thing as trust for trust merely means relinquishing control just like justice is merely establishing vengeance. One reason why prisons will always be overflowing. In the absence of trust/absoluteness, there is fairness though. So lunatics trust the idiots’ idea of aliens, gods, “the economy”, “justice”, gambling tips, and the current Old Blighty favourite, winning a pile of cash from “household goods” peddlars. Not to mention blue pills and curative pills. Idiocy & lunacy still do not realise that you cannot have a static solution to a dynamic problem and prefer to “trust” their masters at quackery who, in turn, connivingly trust their “handlers”. Trust, the favourite comforter for those who dare not face themselves first, preferring the spectacle of the excretory prowess of their minds. The difference bwteeen naivety and innocence is Wisdom.

I urge anyone interested in the truth to vist the site http://www.exscientologykids.com one of it's founders Jenna Miscavige Hill is the niece of scientology's current leader.

The "Church" of Scientology won't be able to continue to hide the abuses of it's members and critics for long. "Disconnecting" members from their non-member family and friends, pressuring Sea Org members to get abortions, forced labor "RPF", degrading treatment, and financially swindling members.

http://gawker.com/5003867/the-scientologists-glitzy-birthday-party-for-tom-cruise

Hello, Scientology. We are Anonymous.

Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who trust you, who call you leader, has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind--for the laughs--we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form. We acknowledge you as a serious opponent, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.

You cannot hide; we are everywhere.

We cannot die; we are forever. We're getting bigger every day--and solely by the force of our ideas, malicious and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many.

Yet for all that we are not as monstrous as you are; still our methods are a parallel to your own. Doubtless you will use the Anon's actions as an example of the persecution you have so long warned your followers would come; this is acceptable. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs.

Gradually as we merge our pulse with that of your "Church", the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will wake, and see that salvation has no price. They will know that the stress, the frustration that they feel is not something that may be blamed upon Anonymous. No--they will see that it stems from a source far closer to each. Yes, we are SPs. But the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of the RTC.

Knowledge is free.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

@Link
I suspect its because the US takes religious freedom a little more seriously than most countries. Incidently, Wicca and Voodoo are also officialy recognised in the US.
Though why any religion needs to be officialy recognised by a state is beyond me, surely recognition from lots of followers and (presumably) dieties (or aliens) is more than enough. 

AT adds: Dieties? They're thin gods, right?

These wackos have on numerous occasions tried to infiltrate the US Government at the highest level, and I imagine others as well.

They are dangerous, and have no interest in actually helping people ... unless there is money involved.

I cannot believe this cult of money is allowed to practice and enjoy the same tax exemptions as other religions who ... by their very nature tend to be peaceful and inclusive, and focus on promoting community, diversity, and equity.

These scum should be sued for the damage they have inflicted on countless millions of people over the years and their assets seized.

Cruise and any of the ther hollywood clique are simply wrecking their own reputations by association.

I will never watch a movie made with the following actors in it:

The list of celebrity Scientologists now includes Cruise, Kidman, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Anne Archer, Juliette Lewis, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Mimi Rogers, Karen Black, and Kirstie Alley. There are dozens of lesser-known Scientologists in show biz as well: Lee Purcell (Big Wednesday), Jeff Pomerantz (General Hospital), Geoffrey Lewis (Juliette's dad, who was in Every Which Way but Loose, among other movies), Judy Norton-Taylor (The Waltons), Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson), child TV actor Vonni Ribisi (My Two Dads), Michael Wiseman (Predator 2), Kimberley Kates (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure), Michael D. Roberts (Rain Man), and Gary Imhoff (the forthcoming Thumbelina). 

I agree that their beliefs are ridiculous and sloppily fabricated, but if you compare it to the old religions it's just as idiotic surely, I mean seriously just because you are used to christianity and such doesn't make it any less ridiculous, and when I see those priest swing metal things which emanate smoke at people my mind cringes at the stupidity of humans, or how about that god and rapture 80% of americans apparently believe in? to name but a random few examples of the many many thousands.

People are always citing the Xenu and alien stuff - I've yet to see even one webpage or book with that stuff in it, that's from Scientology.

Anyone got an official link (not a video, just some text outlining of the stuff about souls from ages ago inhabiting current people's bodies and that kind of thing) or a definite official book title that actually proves those claims?

I looked through Dianetics and found nothing like that....maybe I just missed those pages?! Most other info about Hubbard, pre-Scientology, is in connection with the Babalon Working, or his sci-fi novels from later on.

Is it possible some people joined a cult that claimed to be Scientology or something like that - otherwise where do they get that info. from? It sounds like it's info from having left a cult and that's why there's no evidence for it - which means it's suspect on other levels.
Usually it's the other way around with cults and 'fringe beliefs' - the "wacky" stuff is available right away and that gets people to join, and then after they join they get told what the actual beliefs are.

Does Scientology hold the cure for Substance D addiction?