enturbulation.org, go to the forums and look for anyone who has been a part of the church, ask them a few questions. This will not be hearsay for these people have found a way to leave the church and they will gladly teach you about the things they have witnessed.

I realize it’s a little late but, hopefully, someone will benefit from this.

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Hubbard claimed that he was made a blood brother of the Blackfeet Indians at the age of six. The Blackfeet Nation say that they have never practiced the “Hollywood idea” of blood brotherhood and have no record of any ceremony involving the young L. Ron Hubbard — or even of “Old Tom”, the “medicine man” Hubbard claimed had performed it.

Scientologists actually swallow this. They not only believe that Hubbard really was a “blood brother”, one Scientologist went so far as to create a document on Blackfeet Nation stationery (without any authorization to do so) claiming to “re-establish[] L. Ron Hubbard as a blood brother to the Blackfeet Tribe” — and this was after he, by his own admission, tried and failed to find any record indicating that Hubbard had ever been a blood brother in the first place.

Hubbard claimed to have spent a significant portion of his childhood in the mystic East and learning the ancient wisdom there. He claimed to have studied under a “thoroughly insightful Beijing magician who represented the last of the line of Chinese magicians from the court of Kublai Khan”, named “Old Mayo” (note the similarity to a previous wise mentor figure from another culture, “Old Tom”) and to have been made a lama priest by Old Mayo after a year of study. Hubbard claimed to have spent time with “the local Tartar tribes [and] with nomadic bandits originally from Mongolia”. Hilariously, the Church of Scientology parrots all this and says that he “record[ed] what he saw and learned in his ever-present diaries” — hilariously, because those diaries were later introduced as evidence in a trial, and they made no mention of Old Mayo, of Tartar tribes or nomad bandits, no mention of Eastern philosophy, certainly no mention of becoming a lama priest. Instead, they contained such shallow and judgmental observations as “If China turned [the Great Wall] into a rolly coaster it could make millions of dollars every year” and “As a Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down.” and “They smell of all the baths they didn[']t take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.”

Scientologists nevertheless still swallow the hokum that Hubbard learned ancient wisdom in the Eastern and that Dianetics and Scientology thus draw from the wisdom of Eastern philosophy.

Hubbard claimed to be a war hero. He claimed to have won 21 (or 24, or 27, or 29) medals and palms, including the Purple Heart with palm, and the British and Dutch Victory medals. The British and Dutch Victory medals do not exist. Records are kept of those who receive the Purple Heart; Hubbard is not among them. Hubbard claimed to have served as Commodore of Corvettes in the North Pacific during World War II. No corvettes served in the Pacific theater. Hubbard claimed that during combat, he was machine-gunned and injured by shrapnel fragments, and ended the war “crippled and blinded” until he healed himself with the breakthroughs which became Dianetics. There is no record of Hubbard ever being in combat. His medical records show that he was hospitalized, not for war wounds, but for a duodenal ulcer. Hubbard also claimed to be suffering from bursitis and arthritis and conjunctivitis. He was still complaining of such ailments in military medical examinations, and continuing to draw disability pay for them, years after he claimed to have discovered in Dianetics the infallible cure for such ailments.

Scientologists actually swallow this, and still refer to Hubbard as a war hero who served with distinction. Despite all wartime records clearly showing Hubbard as a braggart and a malingerer, Scientologists remain in denial, preferring to believe the preposterous fantasy that Hubbard was conducting secret activities as an intelligence officer and that, even six decades after the end of World War II, the secret records showing Hubbard’s actually meritorious service still cannot be released, or even acknowledged to exist. One can only wonder why the British and Dutch would go so far as to contradict the entire existence of the medals Hubbard claimed to have received from them — was any one intelligent agent that deeply undercover? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just not give him a medal that couldn’t be acknowledged?

Hubbard claimed great scientific prowess, and claimed that he was “one of America’s first nuclear physicists”, one of those “Buck Rogers Boys”. In fact, he failed to even finish college and flunked the only course in physics he ever took, and throughout his works, he makes blunders of the most elementary sort. The man who insisted on the importance of dictionaries talked about this “galaxy” and that one without learning the correct pronounciation of the word. He claimed that “one merely has to take a hose to a building surface or a road to wash the radiation off of it. This factor is well known to defense trained personnel.” He claimed that “Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two” — a description of the disproven theories of Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko, not those of Darwin. Even if you were to entertain the notion that L. Ron Hubbard’s bizarre ideas on science were correct and the viewpoint of the mainstream scientific community was wrong — Hubbard couldn’t even correctly describe or identify the mainstream scientific viewpoint.

And yet Scientologists swallow all this. To them, Hubbard is the greatest scientist that ever lived. Why? Because he created Dianetics and Scientology, and the Scientology actually believes that these are scientific accomplishments — despite the fact that no experiment testing any of the claims of Dianetics or Scientology has found any support for them.

I think it’s telling that Some_guy challenged us to “give [him] some hard proof” and didn’t even specify of what. That way, he can always “move the goalposts” and claim that we failed to meet his challenge.

Why do people protest Scientology?
Scientology locks people up.

There are over two dozen allegations that Scientology has held individuals against their will.These illegal acts were not committed by rogue Scientologists - they were in accordance with Scientology policy.

Scientology held Lisa McPherson against her will for 17 days, according to Scientology’s own logs. She died in their custody. The state of Florida decided not to prosecute the two felony charges filed against Scientology in her death after Scientology used relentless pressure to get the medical examiner to make a partial change in the cause of death. Her estate sued Scientology for wrongful death and false imprisonment; the suit was settled in May 2004, with all details kept confidential..

Scientology lies.

Lying to people to get their money isn’t just unethical -it’s illegal. It’s called fraud.

Scientology claims there is a scientific basis for all their processes. There isn’t. Scientology claims it’s compatible with other belief systems, like Christianity. It’s not. Scientology claims to be the fastest-growing religion in the world, with 8 million members, utilizing infallible technology developed by a physicist and war hero. They’re lying.

Scientology is breaking the law.

In addition to false imprisonment and fraud, Scientology engages in the illegal practice of medicine by prescribing auditing and vitamins to replace legally-prescribed medical treatment.

Scientology also extorts money from its members, telling them it’s scientifically proven that their lives will become worse if they don’t pay for expensive auditing.

Scientology has a long, well-documented history of criminal activities.

High-ranking Scientology executives were convicted of extremely serious crimes in the United States for breaking into government offices and stealing documents. Founder L. Ron Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case, and the defendants stated in their stipulation of evidence that, at all times, he acted as supervisor of the illegal activities.

Scientology itself was convicted of similar crimes in Canada. When Scientology then tried to destroy the reputation of the prosecutor in the case, they were hit with the biggest libel fine in Canadian history.

L. Ron Hubbard was convicted of fraud in France.

Scientology attacks free speech.

Scientology says that “public statements against Scientology or Scientologists,” “writing anti-Scientology letters to the press,” and “testifying as a hostile witness against Scientology in public” are all “Suppressive Acts” - high crimes, according to ” Introduction to Scientology Ethics.” The book goes on to say that people who do such things “cannot be granted the rights and beingness ordinarily accorded rational beings.”

In accordance with this policy (and others like it), Scientology has tried to silence all criticism:

Scientology framed journalist Paulette Cooper for sending bomb threats after she wrote The Scandal of Scientology.

Scientology sued book and magazine publishers - including Time magazine - in an attempt to prevent any future criticism by scaring publishers with the prospect of enormous court costs.

Scientology sued critics for copyright infringement, even though the copyrights to some of the documents in question may have been lost to the public domain years ago.

Scientology tried to unilaterally shut down the alt.religion.sciento
logy newsgroup - unintentionally bringing Scientology to the attention of hundreds of free-speech advocates.

Scientology imposes gag orders in settlement agreements, preventing those who have suffered most from telling the world what they know.

Scientology routinely threatens legal action against critics, alleging copyright infringement, trademark dilution, and dissemination of trade secrets - often in situations in which its allegations are baseless.

Scientology hurts people.

Scientology routinely pressures members into spending more money than they can afford on expensive courses.

Scientology’s disconnection policy destroys families.

Scientology betrays the trust of well-intentioned people by falsely claiming to have a scientifically-proven technology to save the world. Scientology ruthlessly attacks its critics with everything from frame-ups to unannounced visits to the homes of family members to libellous fliers distributed to their neighbors and business associates.

And sometimes, Scientologists die under suspicious circumstances. They even target their own kind.

Buddhism, Mormonism, Islamic, Judiasm, Christianity, etc., have not required bloodshed or money for Centuries. To have such draconian administration is simply morally not right today by any standard of good you want to pluck from.