I’ve been doing more reading about how they managed to get tax-exempt status — y’know, because they’re a “church” — and it’s an eye-opener.

Jim Treacher on January 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM

Snip:

“Hubbard wrote that church enemies may “be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”"

Gosh, that sounds a lot like another major belief system.

If he’s so dedicated to Scientology, then he should drop out of Hollywood altogether. He should stop his acting career and devote the rest of his life to Scientology.

Change his name from “Tom Cruise”, to “Space Cadet”.

The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman.

L. Ron Hubbard, The Class VIII, Oct. 3, 1968

1Jo 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

No offense meant whatsoever to any non-Christians commenting on this thread. Just a little reminder to my Christian friends that the term anti-Christ does not apply exclusively to any one person past, present or future.

not even a good science fiction writer.

spacekicker on January 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM

I hope you aren’t judging ‘Battlefield Earth’ by the movie.

I look at L. Ron Hubbard as the PT Barnum of his time…he made fools of a lot of people but he was still otherwise entertaining.

tom is bonkers and his “religion” is barking mad

Hey Tom! Have you had a “body thatan” cleansing session lately? Seen any good “volcanos” recently? Any “galactic overloads” running around a galaxy near us today?

Don’t worry, You may not know what the hell I’m talking about, but Tommy C. does and if you have enough money to move up to a high enough “level” in their cult, you can too…;-)

;)

If it wasn’t L. Ron Hubbard who created this, it would have been some other opportunistic nutball.

If you can’t find an existing religion to believe in, then you just CREATE one.

As cleansing to the palate as a fresh horse apple.

A SECOND LOOK AT LDS!

The CFR must be scared od scientology. The goverment is scared of anyone getting together. People can beleive what they want this is America.

Maybe I don’t believe it

but who knows maybe they are right.

RON PAUL 2008

This tells me that the Scientologists and the Ronulans are going to come to blows. There can be only one whack job named Ron running a religious cult.

It makes sense now, that’s what Cruise was talking about when he said, “Are you ready to clean this place up”.

Ah well. We Mormons have Battlestar Galactica to sci-fi up our doctrine. Guess it’s only fair.

sulla on January 17, 2008 at 9:33 PM

Trust me, you were already there. “If I Could Hie To Kolob” ring a bell?

As for palate cleansing, it’s like getting the taste of castor oil out of your mouth by drinking motor oil.

Let’s get history right, Gene Roddenberry is the true leader of Sciencefictionology. Sorry. L. Ron was the father of Dietronics.

Well “Tttaaaths Alll Folks” let’s worship at the church of “Pass the Plate”-and remember the plate is not a change machine.

Sheesh.

“I am there for YOU.”

Isn’t that what he said in Jerry Maquire? What, no “SHOW ME THE MONEY!”

Another video… The one they don’t want you to see…

darkpixel on January 18, 2008 at 1:19 AM

What’s the difference between Scientology and bovine spongiform encephalopathy?

In the larger buildings they build, they furnish an office for him and keep it locked up and undisturbed until the day he returns.

bnelson44 on January 17, 2008 at 9:03 PM

If they keep them locked and undisturbed, maybe he already returned several times, couldn’t get out because the door was locked, and had to ‘re-ascend’ each time.