Let's Be "Clear:" Scientology is a FAKE Religion.

Yahoo! News reports that France has fined the 'church' of scientology $900,000 for being fake, and a handful of very high-level members of the organization have defected and become the newest critics of scientology.

Then the article tries an even-handed approach to pretending this is a regular thing that happens to all religions. They mention that the Internet is now a source of information about the 'church' that members have to pay for. They even mention that Italy and Russia did not ban the 'church' from operating in those countries, and equate scientology with the Roman Catholic Church.

Not mentioned were things like, some of that information is: the source of the residual stress on your soul. L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the cult) said that the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs.

No, seriously. Borrowing from the wikipedia entry on Xenu:

"Official Scientology dogma holds that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm. Members of the Church of Scientology widely deny or try to hide the Xenu story." This is what they mean, if you have ever heard a scientologist talk about The Wall of Fire or the "R6 implant".

This is what they teach. That is what your soul needs to be made "clear" from. Being blown up by a hydrogen bomb by a space alien. You would have to be a scientologist for a good long time and pay a bunch of cash, or spend 2 minutes searching on the Internet, to find out stuff like that. By the way, the 'church' of scientology has sued people to keep tidbits like that under wraps. Go clicking around the web some more and you'll find more "confidential material" (quoting the Yahoo! article) about the Cult of Scientology.

Also not mentioned in the Yahoo! article: Scientology's somewhat more limited successes in Germany. Also not mentioned is that Anonymous declared war on Scientology, and Scientology is fighting back (good luck with that!). Also not mentioned is the way scientology tends to send in the lawyers whenever somebody calls them a cult (which they are), or that scientology is both a cult and a profitable 'non-profit'business.

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Let me be quite clear about this: The Church of Scientology is a cult as well as a for-profit business enterprise. Anyone seeking spiritual enlightenment would do much better cracking open a Bible than a copy of Dianetics. If you want to know the way to Heaven, you can find it free at any genuine Christian's house.