Elayne Riggs (3:57 PM on Sun Feb 3, 2008)

It always seemed to me that the more attention you give trolls the more they like it. If people truly believe Scientologists are the trolls of the religion world, why afford them all this attention? Yes, it may be criminal that they're so obscenely rich from their celebrity benefactors, but it's their money to tithe, not yours.

Marilee J. Layman (4:46 PM on Sun Feb 3, 2008)

Actually, Hubbard started with Dianetics, and John W. Campbell, one of the early SF editors, thought it was a wonderful idea. When Dianetics didn't pay so well, Hubbard invented Scientiology and ran it until 1986 when he died. The reason Scientology pays so well is that they don't tithe, they pay, in large amounts, for each new step of learning/progress. Germany classes it as a business because of this. Hubbard told Lloyd Eshbach "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is." It was always about the money.

Elayne, the reason people are so fervently against it is that Scientology requests their members to break from their family and friends. When Scientology thinks someone isn't progressing well, they take them prisoner and use brainwashing, which has resulted in one death so far. (That was never in Hubbard's writing, that's the current church.) This is clearly abusive.

Linda Gold (7:43 PM on Sun Feb 3, 2008)

Many years ago I attended at wedding at the NYC Church of Scientology. Two friends from acting school were members and were getting married. About a year later they left the Church and when we asked them about it they were obviously terrified and refused to say anything. I have never forgotten that and have always had a bad feeling about Scientology since.

jim wiz (5:16 PM on Sun Feb 3, 2008)

.....hmmm.....this 'secret' .anti-scientologist guerilla movement.......reminds me of a line from Alan Moore's "The Watchmen"....."Sometimes Justice Must Go Hooded"
I'm also reminded of the column in the New York Times "The Ethicist" by the great Randy Cohen......
A column that might read"Is it Ethical to fight a criminal organization, with counter criminal force?"
A good example could be America's involvement in the Second World War, 1941.
A clear cut enemy [ you know who] commiting collateral damage to the U.S. Government,and it's people, etc.
Not so with the Scientologists, and the the afore said' guerilla' movement opposing them.
If the scientologists have indeed committed crimes against our current legal system.......and
especially can be proven to have done real harm within that system, to citizenry, property,
or financial malfeasance, other than mere greed..........fine. Let the U.S. government take clear
cut legal actions, and hobble that organization like so many before it. And only then.
Until that time, any Hooded Crime Busters, or Vigilante Citizenry, are the greater wrong doers.
Are in fact creating a Civil War, by 'firing' upon their fellow citizens.
Let's not become a third class nation like most of Africa and the poorer Muslim nations.
All of todays religions/ cults began with some nutty guy with a P.T. Barnum ethic.....and with enough
accumulated capital, by same, become very establishment indeed.
If there was'nt a public that wanted to be suckered, and used the good sense that their various Gods supposedly gave them........there would'nt be any cult problems at all.
Still tho......without our laws, clear thinking, and objectivity.... we're just another lynch mob
repeating the mistakes of history, most blindly.

But with enough ill gained capital.........a very respected entity indeed.
Take the Cults to court. And nothing less.

Anonymous (11:19 AM on Sun Feb 3, 2008)

http://www.twth.org/video/player.html?videoId=respect_rel...

Anonymous (12:15 PM on Mon Feb 4, 2008)

Actually all the attention in the media recently has resulted in a huge increase in the number of new people walking into Scientology churches to check it out for themselves. See the Alexa traffic rankings for their site. As for Marilee's comments above - it's total tripe. And as for Linda Gold's comments -- crap also. There are no rules against leaving Scientology -- many people come in, do some Scientology services, and go on about their business (Jerry Seinfeld was one of them). It's people like Mrailee and Linda who are fomenting fear, not the Scientologists. I know, I've been one for more than 35 years.

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