Cult watch: Scientology

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke



I went to youtube because I hadn't been there in a while.


I was drawn to a video which featured BBC Panorama's John Sweeney losing his cool at one of the cult's leaders. He had gone to Clearwater, Florida - the base of the Church of Scientology - to find out more about the cult because it recently opened a big centre in London.


I proceeded to watch a few more videos on the cult. The footage is extremely disturbing and shocking. Make no doubt about it: Scientology is one of the most dangerous cults in the world today.



I've highlighted a few videos below:


1. Inside Edition's shocking report on Scientology and the death of Lisa McPherson.
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
One key point: People between the age of 18 and 25 are the ones most vulnerable and, therefore, the most attractive targets for cults.


2. In Britain: The Big Story's inside story on the cult
A reporter goes undercover and infiltrates the cult. One can also understand how the cult grew so rich by exploiting its members.



3. In the United States: Scientology and the death of Lisa McPherson
The Lisa McPherson Trust showcased in the video how the cult engaged in the "fair game" policy.

According to Scientology's Fair Game policy , an enemy of Scientology "may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist, and may be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.



4. In the United States: 60 Minutes' report on how the church of Scientology took over the Cult Awareness Network in 1998. Before that, the network helped parents whose children had been entrapped by groups like Scientology.



5. Scientology vs BBC: How the Church of Scientology treated John Sweeney of Panorama before he lost his cool at one of the church's leaders

BBC filed a report shortly after.


And you know what was the saddest part for me? Scientology totally discredits psychiatry and believes the Holocaust was started by a group of psychiatrists. It does not believe in psychiatric treatment for its members, and that was how Lisa McPherson died.


I followed up on a comment in one of the videos, and found another similar tragedy that happened in Australia just recently. Here, a woman charged with murdering her father and sister was allegedly forced to stop taking psychiatric drugs by her family because they were Scientologists.


The key warning signs of a cult (source):

• Single charismatic leader.
• People always seeming constantly happy and enthusiastic. Especially if you discover that they have been told to act that way for the potential new recruits.
• Instant friends.
• If you are told who you can or cannot talk to or associate with.
• They hide what they teach.
• Say they are the only true group, or the best so why go anywhere else.
• Hyped meetings, get you to meetings rather than share with you.
• Experiential rather than logical.
• Asking for money for the next level.
• Some cults travel door to door during times when women are home alone. They, and this is rather sexist, think that women are easier to recruit and once they have the woman then it will be easier to snare the husband or partner.
• Saying that they have to make people pay for it because otherwise they will not appreciate it. This is of course a very silly reason, plenty of people are able to appreciate things which they did not pay for.

I hope that if you're reading this blog posting, please forward these videos on Scientology to your families, relatives, colleagues and friends so that more people are well-informed about this extremely dangerous cult.


God is about truth. Scientology is about lies.