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For starters, you might want to read the official Web pages of the "Church" of Scientology.
For an opposing view, you can check what little I have or look at the wealth of critical info on Ron Newman's Scientology page, or both.
If you did what I suggested, you might've noticed the Scientologists don't link to any critical pages, whereas the critics seem to always link to theirs. Apparently the Scientologists can't deal with any challenges to their beliefs and practices. In fact, they tried to remove the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology claiming that the name of the group infringes on their trademark "Scientology".
In 1998, the Scientologists lost two legal rounds in Finland: the Ministry of Education refused to register the Finnish Church of Scientology as a religious body, and two Scientologists in visible positions were found guilty of libelling a psychologist. Here is a short account of both cases. Undoubtedly, they will be appealed.
On May 19, 1996, an incredible deluge of pro-Scientology postings started in the newsgroup. Jon Noring wrote this account of the spam attack. It also contains a petition, which you can sign by e-mail if you agree with it.
They have also sued their former member Dennis Erlich, among others, for alleged copyright and trade secret (!) violations; this was because he exposed some creeds you're supposed to accept at late stages of the brainwashing process. Ex-scientologists and outsiders, like myself, tend to regard those claims as simply ridiculous. For instance, one is taught that we're all possessed by thousands of ghosts of space aliens mass murdered 75 million years ago.
Dennis' attorneys work for him pro bono. That is, their work is free, but he must cover the hard expenses, such as copying, phone bills, etc. Those costs are substantial, too. You can help by contributing to Dennis Erlich Defense Fund. Checks drawn in foreign currency on foreign banks are accepted as well. Send checks to
MORRISON & FOERSTER
345 California Street
San Francisco, California 94104-2675
Telephone: (415) 677-7000
Facsimile: (415) 677-7522
Contact People: Carla Oakley and Katie Walsh
Checks should be made out to Morrison & Foerster and labelled "DENNIS ERLICH DEFENSE FUND". To verify this info, email ssteele@eff.org (Shari Steele).
Scientology made it to the CNN Headline News by raiding other ex-members homes, too, under the pretext of copyright and trade secret violations. You can send donations to the FACTNet Defense Fund to help these people. Make the check payable to F.A.C.T. Net, Inc. and label it "Defense Fund". Send it to
F.A.C.T. Net, Inc.
601 Sixteenth Street #C-217
Golden, CO 80401
USA
The "trade secrets" that Dennis Erlich and others are accused of revealing aren't exactly secret any more, as they've been entered into public court records. The documents have been posted on the Usenet as well, but they tend to get cancelled by someone who doesn't like the truth to get out.
There may be some truth to the Scientologists' allegations concerning the copyrights of these materials, but there's something called "fair use" of copyrighted documents. Here's an example by Dave Touretzky. I also made a Finnish summary of the OT levels I-III, according to the Fishman document. And Michael Robinson from Beijing, China, summarized the Fishman OT levels in English. Recently, I made a summary of a document called NOTs 1. The original version contained fair use quotes and paraphrases, the current one had all the direct quotations removed.
You can read public letters I've written about Scientology concerning, for instance, a glaring contradiction in their allegations against Erlich.
You might want to know about some underhanded tactics that representatives of the Co$ use in debate. Some of them are quite frequently used by people having nothing to do with the Co$, too, according to my observations.
Can you imagine a real religious organization would have you sign a legal contract concerning their services? Maybe they expect some complaining customers?
In the 1970's the Scientologists got a new enemy, Paulette Cooper, who wrote a critical book about them and continued to fight their evil organization in a courageous way, despite the extreme harassment she had to endure. Here are some things she has to say today.
Here's a medium-sized package (about 70Kb) of solid information by Jon Atack, an ex-member of the "church".
Overview:
The Scientology religion is an expanding new religion, founded by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. The word Scientology means the "study of knowledge or truth" and addresses the rehabilitation and salvation of the human spirit.
According to a Scientology website:
"Today its more than 6,000 churches, missions, related organizations, groups and activities span the globe and minister the religion to more than eight million people in 159 countries in over 66 languages." 1
Additionally, Churches of Scientology support more than a thousand social betterment groups, which utilize L. Ron Hubbard's methods in the fields of education, drug and criminal rehabilitation, and moral rejuvenation.
The total number of Scientologists in the world is extremely difficult to estimate, for a variety of reasons. Estimates range from 100 thousand to 10 million.
The Church has expanded more in the last five years than in the preceding fifty. In the last year alone, new Scientology groups, missions and churches have opened at the rate of three per day.
Topics covered in this section:
bullet Basic information about Scientology:® Its symbols, history, beliefs and practices
bullet How many Scientologists are there?
bullet Additional information: Programs, important dates, books & magazines
bullet Resolution of religious intolerance
bullet Internet/copyright conflicts
bullet Human rights programs
bullet News from the media between 2007-OCT and now
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Reference used:
1. "Scientology®: A reference work presented by the Church of Scientology International," at: http://www.bonafidescientology.org/
Recommended book:
James R. Lewis, "Scientology," Oxford University Press, 2009-MAR, 464 pages. Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store. List price is $35.00. Amazon.com sells it for $25.20 as of 2009-APR-13..
Product description (shared by Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble):
Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. The Church of Scientology has been involved in battles over tax issues, a ten-year conflict with the Food and Drug Administration, extended turmoil with a number of European governments, and has even been subjected to FBI raids in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
Negative publicity, however, has not prevented the Church from experiencing remarkably steady growth. Official national census figures indicate that the number of Scientologists grew significantly in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia throughout the 1990s, and studies show that the Church gained 10,000 members in the United States during that decade. This has led Scientology to begin referring to itself as "The World's Fastest Growing Religion." But despite its highly public profile, recently enhanced by celebrity spokespersons like Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes, little has been published about the Church, its history, theology, and mission.
The present volume brings together an international group of top scholars on New Religious Movements to offer an extensive and even-handed overview and analysis of all of these aspects of Scientology, including the controversies to which it continues to give rise. The book's six parts take a detailed look at the Church through its similarities to and differences from other religions, conflicts with various groups, overseas missions, and its theology, history, and sociology.
James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. This volume is a welcome and long-overdue resource for scholars, students, and others interested in this controversial and little-understood religious movement.
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The aims of Scientology are: "A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights."
The application of Scientology technology, developed by L. Ron Hubbard, can resolve the major social issues we face in the 21st Century, including drugs, illiteracy, the breakdown of moral standards and consequent soaring crime rates.
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