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CoS & Other Faiths
Contents
• Introduction
• The Doctrine
• Christianity
Introduction
It's a fairly important part of our society's structure that the various major religions co-exist peacefully with one another. When two religions vehemently disagree and refuse to work together, the repercussions quickly become fairly serious. In fact, as history has shown us, often times such deep disagreements often lead to violence. While religious doctrines the world over teach us the values of peace, in the hands of manipulative men, religon can be warped into a tool of hatred, selfishness, and all that is inhumane.
In my mind, a religious organization cannot be fully understood until we understand how it deals with its neighbors. How does it treat the other religions of the world? How does it teach its followers to interact with those of differing opinions? How does it stand up to criticism?
These are all very important questions that should be asked of Scientology, and that is what I hope to address in this segment.
As explained in the Xenu & Creation segment, their doctrine has a great deal to say about their attitudes toward other faiths. In fact, in my opinion, their doctrine often says things that are completely contrary to the public facade put forth by the church's leaders. If you have not yet read the Xenu page, I would recommend that you read that before continuing here.
It's been repeated several times by the church's leaders, both L Ron Hubbard & David Miscavige, and their many celebrity "ambassadors" for the church - John Travolta & Tom Cruise - that Scientology is an 'applied religious philosophy.' They claim this means that it can be paired seamlessly with any other doctrine, i.e. you could be a Catholic and a Scientologist, a Buddhist and a Scientologist, et cetera. The Church of Scientology would have you believe that anything you learn in Scientology is nothing more than a means of looking at the world and the spirit and has no inherent doctrines of its own that might clash with that of another church.
In my opinion, that's not only an absolute falsehood, it's a calculated deception.
The Doctrine
Unfortunately, when you first enter Scientology, the doctrine as a whole is withheld for many years. Unlike most religions that will share as many of their beliefs as you're willing to listen to, Scientology only gives you a little bit of information at a time. Their doctrine is parcelled out throughout the myriad of training courses offered by Scientology, so the more you want to learn about the doctrine, the more you have to pay and the more time you have to spend in Scientology classrooms. By the time you hear the Scientology doctrines regarding other religions, their origins, and how Scientologists are supposed to treat outsiders, your entire life has already been transformed.
The bulk of Scientology's doctrines regarding other religions stem from the Operating Thetan Level 3 training course. When inside Scientology, it takes roughly ten years and several hundred thousands of dollars to reach this level. Outside Scientology, it's commonly known that OTIII is when Scientologists are taught the story of Xenu, which is known within Scientology as the "R6 Incident."
Suffice it to say, 75 million years ago, Prince Xenu had an overpopulation problem in this quadrant of the galaxy. He rounded up billions of aliens and executed them. Somehow the souls of these aliens survived. The souls became known as "thetans," and Xenu captured all these souls before they could escape. He transported all these souls to movie-theater-like brainwashing facilities, where he bombarded them with a variety of falsehoods intended to confuse and distress them. After the souls were thoroughly brainwashed, they were let loose on the world. They soon attached themselves to prehistoric humans, and to this day the brainwashed thetans are the source of all our confusion, depression, illnesses, and strife.
The important aspects and implications of this doctrine are often overlooked as we experience the inevitable surprise at this bizarre and unfamiliar religious concept. But in it we're given a glimpse into the true structure of Scientology and how individual Scientologists are taught to look at the world around them. In fact, many of the more vague concepts included in the Xenu story have been thoroughly explored, explained, and clarified in the further work of L. Ron Hubbard. Taking a peak behind the curtain, so to speak, gives a crystal clear picture of precisely what Hubbard thought of opposing theologies.
The essence of Scientology's attitudes towards other faiths can be seen when special attention is given to the tactics Lord Xenu supposedly used in brainwashing the thetans. In multiple essays, books, and internal Scientology mandates, Hubbard was especially clear in explaining what exactly Xenu brainwashed these thetans into believing. The most important and specific aspect of the brainwashing had to do with teaching these thetans the doctrines of every single religion outside of Scientology, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. All of them, every single doctrine that was brainwashed into the minds of these dead alien souls, it was all a complete and utter fabrication, created by Xenu specifically to confuse and distress the thetans. The purpose being that when these thetans latched onto human beings, this confusion and false faith would seep into our consciousness, carrying Xenu's evil plot into our own lives, confusing us, depressing us, and even going so far as to make us physically ill.
According to Scientology, our faith in any religion other than Scientology is the direct result of evil Lord Xenu's brainwashing of dead alien souls 75 million years ago. All of the doctrines we believe in, every tenent of every religion, was a complete fabrication.
Many religious leaders outside Scientology are aware of the insinuations inherent to the Xenu story, as well as Hubbard's many statements that elaborate and confirm the Scientology doctrines claiming all other religions were created by Lord Xenu. But unfortunately, the specific details and implications of the Xenu story are still not widely known. Because of that, already Scientology is trying to market their training courses specifically to the pastors, priests, bishops, and leaders who direct congregations of other faiths throughout the world.
Oftentimes Scientology doctrines are sold to other churches through a variety of front groups which are owned by the church, but are less than straightforward about their origins and affiliations. The most common of those front groups is The Way to Happiness - they distribute copies of Hubbard's 'Way to Happiness' books, lesson plans, and so forth to other religions without ever being clear about the book's use as doctrine in Scientology. For quotes from a variety of religious leaders, you can check 'The Way to Happiness' website.
Christianity
With regard to Christianity, Hubbard was especially verbose. In the Scientology training lecture, 'Assists', which was recorded by Hubbard himself on October 3, 1968, has a great deal to say about Christianity in general.
In one statement - part of which can be heard here - he claims, "The entirety of Roman Catholicism - the devil, all this sort of thing - that is all part of R6." Remember, R6 is the Scientology abbreviation for the whole of the Xenu story.
Perhaps the most telling statement from the Assists lecture is where Hubbard is quite clear in renouncing that Christ ever existed. "Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs [Pre-Clears] who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified." Click here to listen to full audio clip.
As if simply disavowing it existence wasn't enough, Hubbard also saw fit to tarnish any memory of the supposed Christ any Christian dares to believe in, proclaiming Christ to be both a raging maniac and a pedophile. Perhaps the most outlandish of these statements is as follows;
"For those of you whose Christian toes I may have stepped on, let me take the opportunity to disabuse you of some lovely myths. For instance, the historic Jesus was not nearly the sainted figure he has been made out to be. In addition to being a lover of young boys and men, he was given to uncontrollable bursts of temper and hatred that belied the general message of love, understanding, and other typical Marcab PR. You have only to look at the history his teachings inspired to see where it all inevitably leads. It is historic fact and yet man still clings to the ideal so deep and insidious is the biologic implanting."
While it is well within everyone's rights to agree or disagree with any religion, that is beside the point in this case. Scientology, its founder, its current leaders, its many ambassadors, as well as various recruiters, all of them have stated repeatedly that Scientology has no doctrines, that it is merely an 'applied religious philosophy', which can be applied to any other faith. Almost every time this idea is mentioned, it seems the Catholic church gets special mention - as Tom Cruise has said many times, "You can be a Catholic Scientologist."
I dare say, how could anyone be a Catholic Scientologist when Scientology doctrine vehemently renounces the existance of Christ, whom you feel to be your savior? The answer is, you can't. The fact that Scientology says otherwise, while hiding this particular doctrine from you, is - in my opinion - not only a blatant lie, it's absolutely spiritually disgusting.
There are several other audio clips that have been made available online that I would recommend you listen to. The first has to do with L Ron Hubbard openly mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed in a recording made on December 9, 1952, which you can listen to here. The second is a very telling comment regarding Hubbard's explanations of the less than divine origins of God, which can be heard here.
Personally, I find it offensive, given the presence of these attitudes in the most sacred of Scientologist doctrines, that the Church of Scientology lies to the public continually regarding the applications of their "religious philosophy" to other faiths. It's exceedingly clear that Hubbard was vehemently opposed to every other faith and it's obviously part of Scientology's doctrine that all other faiths were simply made up by Xenu for the purposes of confusing us and making us all unhappy. I find it deceitful in the worst possible way. If they want to believe that, of course they have every right, but they have no right to lie about it so maliciously.
Detailed Information & Additional Resources:
• Operation Clambake Audio Collection
• Comparison between Christianity and Scientology
• Christianity, Scientology, & L Ron Hubbard
• Tory Magoo: Does Scientology Believe in Jesus Christ?
• OT VIIIB Training Documents
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