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Andrew Morton is arguably the most well-known celeb biographer in the world. Having covered such high profile subjects as Princess Diana, Madonna, David and Victoria Beckham, and political consort Monica Lewinsky, tackling the world’s most famous Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise, was simply a matter of time for Morton.
Glosslip had a chance to sit down with Andrew while we were visiting in New York for the premiere of Ian Halperin’s new documentary, “His Highness Hollywood.” We will be revealing part of that video interview today.
From our perspective, the interview is explosive and Morton is amazingly astute, tuned in to his subject, and every bit as erudite on Scientology, the faith driving Tom Cruise, as he is on the man himself.
Please tune in for today’s much-anticipated interview, where Alan Levy, founder and CEO of BlogTalkRadio and Glosslip team up to go inside the life of Tom Cruise, the Church of Scientology and talk to the man who sparked the current firestorm of anti-Scientology protests around the globe.
Andrew’s book is where it began two months ago, and despite having his book banned in the UK and Morton himself threatened with lawsuits based on numerous claims in the book, he has some very specific ideas on what should happen going forward as groups like Anonymous, and those brave souls who’ve been fighting the Church for years team up to expose the abuses of the Church of Scientology.
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Comment by D — March 27, 2008 @ 10:03 am
God I wish you people would leave the Scientologists alone! How obsessive can you be?!
You don’t get it, fine, leave those of us who do in peace to enjoy it! This assertion that -every- Scientologist is either corrupt or a victim is absurd. I am neither.
I’ve read all the bad stuff about Scientology, I’ve read the good stuff, and I’ve come to my own conclusions. What you’re doing is creating an army out of people who are too narrow-minded to bother objectively reading everything on a given subject and forming their own conclusions.
It’s almost inconcievably shallow, and in all honesty I hope one day you recognise the shame in your behaviour.
Comment by Dave Stone — March 27, 2008 @ 10:28 am
To the commenter, Dave Stone.
If by some chance you know someone in the church named Stephanie Headley, could you deliver a message from her father Bernie Headley?
Here is the message:
Dear Stephanie,
I want you to know I miss you very much. I am sorry I couldn’t be totally honest with you when your brother blew from Gold. I was honoring his request to keep all information about him confidential. You should know he and his wife are doing very well and have two children now! Your aunts, uncles, cousins and brother also miss you. They all would like to see you again soon. It has been three years since we last spoke and I just can’t understand how you can put the church before your father and family. I hope it isn’t really your choice. If you would like to contact me be assured it would be most welcome!
Again, we all miss you and love you and hope your return is forthcoming.
Love,
Dad
Thanks
Comment by Messenger — March 27, 2008 @ 10:35 am
Dave, are you serious? Really, are you?
Just because you “claim” your experience is a positive one, does NOT mean every person within the CoS is having a positive experience.
Should Catholics who were abused by pedophile priests have shut up simply because other Catholics were having a positive experience?
Think about it? For every positive encounter you’ve had, I can find 20-30 Scientologists who would recall an entirely different, negative and harmful one.
I will not stop, not today, tomorrow, or ever, until certain members of the Church of Scientology are brought to justice and the entire top-down organization is dismantled, exposed and forced to reform itself. It’s called citizen activism and what Glosslip is doing is called investigative journalism.
The world will no longer turn a blind eye to Scientology, you need to accept this, as this is your new reality.
Comment by D — March 27, 2008 @ 10:39 am
Right on, D. I echo your words a million percent to those still-practicing Scientologists who are having a wonderful experience with their religion.
Dave Stone, you say you’ve read all the “bad stuff,” all the accounts of mental, sexual, physical, financial, and criminal abuse and you STILL think Scientology is terrific? You can shut all that out of your mind while you giggle your way through your auditing sessions?
Well, sir, that makes YOU the inconceivably shallow one here, not us. Frankly, you aren’t the one we’re trying to help anyway.
Comment by Benny's Friend — March 27, 2008 @ 11:04 am
I’m just looking forward to the day when Scientology can’t get away with murder, kidnapping, infiltrating governments and mistreating children.
Comment by Ben — March 27, 2008 @ 11:20 am
Oh the Lulz that you people make up, really. And most anonymous people are expressing personal opinion. Only a few intend real harm. Regarding disconnection. How many people do you personally know who have gone off to make a life for themselves and minimized contact with their parents, or selected with selected family members? Fortunately, only a few parents are actually hostile to their children.
Comment by Terryeo — March 27, 2008 @ 11:36 am
Hi Terryeo,
Would you be willing to try to deliver that message?
Comment by Messenger — March 27, 2008 @ 11:58 am
(You’re still using ‘lulz’ incorrectly, Terryeo - but you’ve got the spelling down now!!)
It’s funny - I never would have researched scientology as much as I have if it wasn’t for Terryeo… and I haven’t found much that’s good (on the scientology sites or not). I have to say Dawn that you are making a real difference. You too, Terryeo. I don’t want to insult you (honestly) but you’re a hero to the anonymous movement. They honestly seem to appreciate your efforts in proving their point.
By the way, Terryeo - is this your website?? http://myreligion.scientologist.net/terryolson/ Are you related to Kate Olson (Susan Lentsch’s daughter)?? Will Kate be seeing her mother soon???
T.
Comment by Thomas — March 27, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Humorously, if you want to find all the internet articles that are critical of Scientology all you have to do is google Terryeo and bgodley and follow where they commented.
Comment by Anonymous — March 27, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
The Morton book on Tom Cruise was NOT banned in the UK. The publishers chose not to publish it here because the libel laws are tougher and it would have been easier for Tom to sue.
Comment by Twisted Perspective — March 27, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Its really starting to freak me out that so many Scientologists keep saying that THEIR experience has been good so the abuses don’t matter.I’ve been watching this thing unfold and everywhere they comment it’s a variation of that same theme. I mean they have every right to feel that way but what kind of religion teaches people to ignore the plight of others? What kind of person can brush those things off so easily? It reminds me of how criminals don’t care who they hurt as long as they get what they want. It just seems cold hearted and selfish to me and it makes me sad.
Comment by DT100 — March 27, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
DT100 — to respond to your comment, you only need to see Hubbard’s “Tone Scale” to realize why that is.
The higher positive number you are, the better you are.
“No Sympathy” — lacking sympathy for others — is rated higher on it than “Sympathy,” which is considered a negative personality trait.
Yep, scientology encourages its members to not give a damn. And if they do appear to give a damn, its to advance an agenda.
Comment by Rick A — March 27, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Don’t believe any Scientologist, they never give you straight answers.
The bad OUTWEIGHS the good.
Comment by bgodley — March 27, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
Reply to Dave Stone.
I’m sorry, I do not believe you. You can’t have read all the bad stuff, simply because scientologists aren’t allowed to. Beside that, what we ex-scientologists fight for are simple plain human rights. Many of us got disconnected by our family members for the simple reason we left the church. This is the abuse I’m fighting for, the Church told my children that they ether cease and refuse any communication from me or they too will be expelled from staff and from the Church loosing their promised “Total freedom”. Enforced abortions and other church crimes in the Sea Org are other things you can’t agree with, and probably as most of scientologists are unaware of.
Mark
Comment by Mark — March 28, 2008 @ 5:18 am
Ok, lots of answers!
Messenger, you surely understand that I would be suspicious of your entire post, since it is exactly what one would post if trying to make the point that Scientology forces people to disconnect.
On the other, if your ’story’ is real, then I have the utmost sympathy for you, and can relate incredibly well because I had a similar situation with my ex-wife, who was everything you claim Scientology to be, including the disconnection policy, but was nothing to do with the church.
My family were patient, and in the end I extricated myself. If your story is real, if your daughter is genuinely suffering, have faith; she’ll come back to you in time.
Which church is she in?
D, your argument is honestly shocking! You’ve basically reversed a quite reasonable argument generally used by people -defending- religion, such as Catholics asserting that one can’t ascribe peadophilia to the entire Catholic church when it’s just a few priests.
My point is that it would be wrong to go on the offensive towards Catholicism for peadophilia, because despite the sexually restrictive lives the priests lead, the church itself is not responsible for the actions of it’s priests.
The exception would be when they try to cover it up, which puts the blood on their hands just as much. And I’m honest enough to admit that many Scientologists in the past have done many wrongs, and that the church have covered those wrongs up.
In both cases the churches have their own disciplinary measures, and I have to say I don’t think it’s for you or I to assess whether the ‘justice’ enacted by one group is better or worse than that effected by another.
Perhaps the biggest thing you, as an Anonymous member, have to answer for is your selectivity. Why Scientology, when there are as many and as great wrongs going on in a massive number of institutions and places in the world.
What about Tibet? Too hard a target for you? What about the children being abused in shelters all over the world, this very moment? Too hard to prove? What about the illegal and unjust war in Iraq, in which thousands of innocent lives have been and are being taken? And what about the genuine abuses going on in the field of Psychology, which Scientology tirelessly attempts to bring to your attention but which you just gloss over?
Your selectivity highlights your hypocrisy.
Ben, if you would assert the validity of bringing in the wrongs of the past when cataloging reasons to justify your hatred, then why are you not instead attacking Christianity, for the literally millions that have died ‘in God’s name’? The church has never issued a formal apology for the Crusades, and no-one was ever brought to justice. Why are YOU, in your extreme righteousness, not on your own crusade to bring -them- to justice?
Or is there a time limit on it? If wrongs were committed in the past 50 years then it’s bad, but more than 100 years ago we can just forget about them?
Bottom line: we all have God-given free will, and if some choose to use that to join Scientology then leave them to it. I -know- what brainwashing and coercion feel like because I’ve been there, it took me seven years to break away from my wife, and when I look back I know that -I- was responsible for my time there, that -I- left when -I- was ready and the time I was ’stuck’ there was because of decisions -I- made. I don’t blame her, and neither can a person rightly blame Scientology for holding on to them.
DT100, the common theme of people saying their experiences with Scientology are good is, quite obviously, because they are responding to the endless assertions that Scientology causes nothing but suffering and sadness. They are not trying to say those who do suffer don’t matter, and if you’re honest with me I’m sure you know full well they are not trying to assert that. We are trying to make the point, counter to your own, that Scientology is not all bad, that we who have been members for years (in contrast to your two months spent surfing the wave of Anonymous propaganda) do not see the so called wrongs and evils you speak of, and it’s not because we’re blind, it’s because they’re not true.
bgodly, try me.
Comment by Dave Stone — March 28, 2008 @ 5:36 am
Mark, your comment came after I posted…
Your justification for not believing me is in itself something you have too easily come to believe, and in my very words is clearly demonstrated to be untrue.
I can read anything I like.
Human rights, as you claim to be fighting for, have nothing whatsoever to do with ‘disconnection’. A relative does not have a human right to see another relative who does not in turn wish to see them.
The whole expulsion thing is blown entirely out of proportion from something which is really quite common. Any religion whose members do something which is in contrast to the policies on which that church is built, will expell said members. Indeed any organisation of any sort will do so.
The disconnection you speak of is an example of what I stated in my previous post, the act of passing off responsibility. Certainly the course in question demands that you ‘handle’ conflicts with family members, and the final and ultimate extreme of such might be severing ties with someone who cannot be compromised with, but in each case you have to acknowledge the responsibility of both the handler and the handled.
In other words, if your child cuts off contact with you, the responsibility for that is on you and on the child, and it is only when seeking to make themselves feel better for their own misdeeds that people turn and point the finger at the church instead.
If it was church policy for you to jump under a moving bus when you saw a person you know, you wouldn’t do it. Apparently people are often willing to sever ties with their families because the church says so, but there is a limit to what they will do just because the church asks them to, and that limit is not one enforced or one that even could be enforced. Every person makes their own choices, just not every person takes responsibility for them.
Enforced abortions?! Prove -one-!
I could easily go online right now under a made up identity and claim various bad things were done to me by the church, join up with the Anonymous crusaders and have them all believe me, without question, and more importantly without evidence.
It’s easy to poke a stick at something.
Comment by Dave Stone — March 28, 2008 @ 5:53 am
Well,
You live in a dreamland and refuse to look.
Don’t tell me that people disconnects by their own will! I got expelled after 15 years because I refused to disconnect from a friend who was unjustly declared “Suppressive”. Go to the ex-scientology forum and there are hundreds of disconnected people for silly reasons.
If you are so lucky to have been allowed by the Church to read the internet, then go to that site and start reading. http://forum.exscn.net
Thousands of people have been declared “Suppressive Person” for political reasons in the Church, and their families and friendships cut into pieces. Read what happened to David Mayo, he was a high tech staff, Class XII, author of the NOTs materials, read the harassments he went trough.
There also people who had been forced to have abortions, and you know that’s true. You know Sea Org members are not allowed to have children, they are offloaded and charged for all services taken (freeloader) if they decide to keep their babies.
Nobody is fighting against a religious practice or belief of Scientologists. I am fighting, and will continue to fight against the abuses of Church of Scientology, until:
1) The Church of Scientology cease to impose disconnection on people.
2) The Church stops to harass independent scientologist.
3) The Church of Scientology allows freedom of speech.
4) I’ll get my money back.
If you are happy with the abuses of the Church, if you thinks forcing Sea Org staff to have abortions is the greatest good, if you think David Mayo was really an SP as are all the SP declared people, then go on, live your dream, but accept the responsibility for it also.
By the way, do you know that the Disconnection policy was cancelled by Hubbard and then reinstated by Miscavige? Read here for full details:
http://www.algonet.se/~tourtel/interests/hubbard_policy-letter_disconnection.html
“I have personal knowledge that material was written and issued under the name of L. Ron Hubbard that he did not author. While working at ASI*, I personally wrote material to be issued under his name for several years. This ranged from simple messages to be sent to various organizational staff on events such as his birthday or a holiday, to my composing an entire large directive that was issued under his name. In these instances, they were done without his knowledge or consent. The directive that I wrote concerned the Scientology policy of ‘Disconnection’. The order to do this came from David Miscavige. Miscavige said that we had to reinstitute the Policy of Disconnection and that I was to write the policy for this. I wrote it and it went through several revisions. It was not sent to Hubbard for his approval, but was issued into the Church of Scientology. I might note that at the time I was not working for the Church of Scientology, but was working for a for-profit corporation.”
Declaration of Robert Vaughn Young,
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO - Civil Action No. 95-K-2143
Comment by Mark — March 28, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Well,
Don’t tell me that people disconnects by their own will! I got expelled after 15 years because I refused to disconnect from a friend who was unjustly declared “Suppressive”. Go to the ex-scientology forum (forum.exscn.net) and there are hundreds of disconnected people for silly reasons.
If you are so lucky to have been allowed by the Church to read the internet, then go to that site and start reading.
Thousands of people have been declared “Suppressive Person” for political reasons in the Church, and their families and friendships cut into pieces. Read what happened to David Mayo, he was a high tech staff, Class XII, author of the NOTs materials, read the harassments he went trough.
There also people who had been forced to have abortions, and you know that’s true. You know Sea Org members are not allowed to have children, they are offloaded and charged for all services taken (freeloader) if they decide to keep their babies.
Nobody is fighting against a religious practice or belief of Scientologists. I am fighting, and will continue to fight against the abuses of Church of Scientology, until:
1) The Church of Scientology cease to impose disconnection on people.
2) The Church stops to harass independent scientologist.
3) The Church of Scientology allows freedom of speech.
4) I’ll get my money back.
If you are happy with the abuses of the Church, if you thinks forcing Sea Org staff to have abortions is the greatest good, if you think David Mayo was really an SP as are all the SP declared people, then go on, live your dream, but accept the responsibility for it also.
By the way, do you know that the Disconnection policy was cancelled by Hubbard and then reinstated by Miscavige? Read here for full details:
http://www.algonet.se/~tourtel/interests/hubbard_policy-letter_disconnection.html
Comment by Mark — March 28, 2008 @ 7:22 am
Dave,
don’t tell me that people disconnects by their own will! I got expelled after 15 years because I refused to disconnect from a friend who was unjustly declared “Suppressive”. Go to the ex-scientology forum (forum.exscn.net) and there are hundreds of disconnected people for silly reasons.
If you are so lucky to have been allowed by the Church to read the internet, then go to that site and start reading.
Thousands of people have been declared “Suppressive Person” for political reasons in the Church, and their families and friendships cut into pieces. Read what happened to David Mayo, he was a high tech staff, Class XII, author of the NOTs materials, read the harassments he went trough.
There also people who had been forced to have abortions, and you know that’s true. You know Sea Org members are not allowed to have children, they are offloaded and charged for all services taken (freeloader) if they decide to keep their babies.
Nobody is fighting against a religious practice or belief of Scientologists. I am fighting, and will continue to fight against the abuses of Church of Scientology, until:
1) The Church of Scientology cease to impose disconnection on people.
2) The Church stops to harass independent scientologist.
3) The Church of Scientology allows freedom of speech.
4) I’ll get my money back.
If you are happy with the abuses of the Church, if you thinks forcing Sea Org staff to have abortions is the greatest good, if you think David Mayo was really an SP as are all the SP declared people, then go on, live your dream, but accept the responsibility for it also.
By the way, do you know that the Disconnection policy was cancelled by Hubbard and then reinstated by Miscavige?
“I have personal knowledge that material was written and issued under the name of L. Ron Hubbard that he did not author. While working at ASI*, I personally wrote material to be issued under his name for several years. This ranged from simple messages to be sent to various organizational staff on events such as his birthday or a holiday, to my composing an entire large directive that was issued under his name. In these instances, they were done without his knowledge or consent. The directive that I wrote concerned the Scientology policy of ‘Disconnection’. The order to do this came from David Miscavige. Miscavige said that we had to reinstitute the Policy of Disconnection and that I was to write the policy for this. I wrote it and it went through several revisions. It was not sent to Hubbard for his approval, but was issued into the Church of Scientology. I might note that at the time I was not working for the Church of Scientology, but was working for a for-profit corporation.”
Declaration of Robert Vaughn Young,
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO - Civil Action No. 95-K-2143
Comment by Mark — March 28, 2008 @ 7:25 am
Dave,
I am not a member of Anonymous. I am a member of the media. I am a journalist. Don’t confuse the fact that I have an opinion and I am willing to share it as anything other than that.
While I appreciate your measured response, I find you quite uncredible. I accept that you experiences are your own, but the Church of Scientology has a track record of doing HORRIBLE things to people, and this has not changed in any way over the years.
There are too many stories I’ve heard first hand from people OUT of the church to be able to believe any of your claims to the contrary. I mean you no disrespect, and I am deeply thankful you are not disconnected from your family now.
But many people are. This is a crime against everything I hold dear and believe about what a religion should be. Scientology at its core it evil, this however, does not mean Scientologists are evil.
Plenty of people in Nazi Germany weren’t evil either, but you can’t allow your innate desire to protect yourself to keep you from doing the right thing. If NO ONE chooses to do the right thing, what kind of world would be live in?
Not one I’d choose, that’s for certain.
Comment by D — March 28, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Dave: I don’t believe that any Church should handle illegal actions within itself on its own. Proper legal actions should be taken, and that does mean investigation by police and proper jurisdictive processes. This goes for the Church of Scientology as well as any Church who’s members and/or higher-ups might be doing illegal activities. And it’s not just one thing in CoS, it’s many, including things that are ordered by the higher ups within it, which makes it all the more alarming.
We are selective because Anonymous wasn’t presented to things such as Tibet, or child slavery, or what-have-you; we were presented with the Church of Scientology. A lot of it has to do with the lulz, but many Anonymous have found that this is very serious business, and have taken the issue at heart. Also, Tibet is in China, whereas Scientology’s tax-exempt status and crimes are happening in our backyards. It’s a gorilla no one wants to talk about.
How does taking action on an issue we find important makes us hypocrites, exactly?
On your comments concerning the Crusades, and deaths that have happened within other religions : It is a reasonable argument, except for the time-frame. The Crusades happened a lot longer than 50, 100 years ago, and people were dying left and right for a lot of reasons (sounds callous, but it’s true). Whether it was for the Kings and Queens, or for “Science”, or because of bad hygiene. And in the regards to the Crusades, the Church has at least had the dignity to come out, take responsibility for these things and apologize. This has yet to happen within the Church of Scientology, which feverently denies allegations and sues anyone who dares speak out (just look at Gregg, for instance!). Not to mention that their crimes are much more recent, and happening -right now-. I’m sure if people had the same moral fiber today than they had back when the Crusades were happening, people would be picketing -their- actions, wouldn’t you agree? Now is the Church of Scientology’s turn.
And I do believe that the Church of Scientology’s followers who claim nothing but good comes out of Scientology, are saying that the people who’ve had bad experiences account for nothing. Why else would they claim a “100% success rate” in almost all their programs?
In regards to your first post, I do not believe that all Scientologists are horrible people, however, they -are- being victimized. Of course you always have the freedom to do what you want. However, what you want will be affected by peer pressure and social stigma, something that the Church of Scientology operates on very strongly. I mean, I’d sure like to wear a dress (and this is just me speaking, not on the behalf of anyone else), and I do have the right to do so, both legally and because of my free will. However, society frowns down upon men wearing women’s clothes, so I won’t do it. When the Church of Scientology controls what is for you Society (through such things as Disconnection and censoring the outside world), they control what Society expects from you, and Society expects you to follow the Tech, continue with the Auditing, and to keep paying.
Comment by Anoynymause — March 28, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
This whole attack on the church of scientoloty has me wondering why just single out this church? It is well known that the christian science church is responsible for countless deaths of adults and children. So are many fundamental churches and societies. Actually the church of scientologys’ track record, as to deaths related to its’ teachings, is a drop in the bucket compared to deaths attributed to christian scientists and many other so called faith healers! Why not go after these churches and societies who for the most part get off scott free!
Comment by Sharon Noel — March 28, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Re#21.
It’s an odd bit of reasoning…. You’re certainly free to protest all the institutions that you’ve mentioned. You have my encouragement to peacefully protest any institution that you think is doing wrong. Can I assume that we have your support to peacefully protest an institution that we thing is doing wrong??
Comment by Thomas — March 28, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Sharon, the difference is that when the Christian Science people start their abuses, the media is not afraid to report it. Family services are not afraid to go in and take a child away from a parent who is not providing medical care. And most importantly, prosecutors are not afraid to charge them for fear all of the witnesses will be sued and harassed into changing their testimony.
Comment by jeannie36832 — March 29, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
Dave Stone how do you feel about the CoS covering up their own sexual abuse cases? Sounds to me like the Catholic Church is a choirboy (pun intended) compared to the CoS’ ability to cover up its dirty laundry
Also I hope you like being added to the inb4 list
Comment by bgodley — March 29, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
@Rick A.
Thank you for your answer. So in essence the less emotion a person conveys the better they are? That cant be right. If a group of people are taught to eliminate sympathy the end result would be horrible. They would turn on each other constantly in the most awful ways because their self interest would always be first and foremost. Who would willingly choose to become like that? The ability to sympathize and empathize is what separates us from the animals.
Comment by DT100 — March 29, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
@bgodly
You say they aren’t trying to say those that suffer don’t matter but in the next breath you say the stories of suffering aren’t true. That doesn’t make sense to me. It also doesn’t make sense that a girl like Chandra on the kids site would fabricate such a thing. Her story had the ring of truth to me. Some of the positive stories I’ve read about members experiencing great things have the ring of truth for me as well. I doubt all of the people with horror stories are lying any more than the people who claim great improvements.
What I don’t understand is why on earth those having a good experience don’t seem committed to making sure the same is true for everybody involved. Isn’t that the point of spirituality and the community of church? Isn’t it about looking out for each other as well as ourselves?
If one isn’t concerned with the welfare of the man/woman sitting in the next pew then can we honestly say that we are improved or somehow enlightened? The group is only as strong as it’s weakest member. If you leave that weak member to flounder that reflects negatively on the group as a whole don’t you think?
Comment by DT100 — March 29, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
#26 A real religion or church is about community and family…taking care of each other, the strong help the weak, the rich the poor, the able help the disable…etc. The CoS is a cult of me…only the self matters…auditing gets rid of your guilts and shames to the point of it doesn’t matter. This explains disconnection…if you are not good for me you are of no value to me. If you are an obstacle to me you are to be ranpled, ignored or eliminated. Even their belief in reincarnation is not the reincarnation of Hinduism of reaching higher levels of betterment or attonment for past not so good lives. The CoS tells their followers that if you didn’t quite get it right it don’t matter. Shed your old shell for a newer model and try it again. Anyone who saw Jeanne Marie’s video knows that her father basically committed suicide so he could go back and start over. The CoS promotes a religion of “no conscious”, “no Fault”, no accountability for anything they do. KSW Keep Scientology working, you’re either in or your out, some day SPs will only be something you read of in the history books, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….Tom Cruise. They should rename it the Church of Narcissus.
Comment by Mitsu Too — March 29, 2008 @ 7:00 pm