Why do people who leave Scientology

say such damaging things about it?

Besides making for great material for a 2005

episode of South Park, Scientologists really do
pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to rid
themselves completely of these unseen pests.

Scientology is a deeply homophobic organization that believes its processes are a kind of
gay therapy.

Members who dare to criticize Scientology

can be declared suppressive, and all other
members are ordered to disconnect from
them, even if it means splitting up families.
The church denies that this is mandated by
the organization, but stunning examples keep
emerging that the practice is used as harshly as
ever.

And maybe the most objectionable fact about

Scientology is that it tries to keep all of this behavior secret. New recruits are never told that
eventually theyll be paying hundreds of dollars an hour to remove invisible space cooties
with the help of a crude device called an emeter. And thats the answer to the inevitable
refrain you hear in online forums that all religions have crazy beliefs and are all the same.
At least other organizations are up front about
what they believe. Scientology wont even tell
its own members what theyre in for not, at
least, until theyve forked over hundreds of
thousands of dollars and isolated themselves
from friends or family who might discourage
them.

Scientology operates from a Cold-War playbook that cannot be altered since the death of
the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in 1986. That includes an obsession with spying and retaliating against former members and other critics.
Current leader David Miscavige even spent
$10 to 12 million to have one man, a former
church executive, watched like a hawk for 24
years.

At least today, with the help of Google, adults

should have some idea of what theyre in for
before they join Scientology. But increasingly
in the last ten years, its the children who have
grown up in Scientology, without a choice in
the matter, who have become the focus of press
accounts. For a great rundown of what its like
to grow up in Scientology, we recommend a
terrific article by Derek Bloch.

Scientologists are indoctrinated that Scientology has all of the answers to everything. And
so leaving the organization is akin to suicide.
When members do make a run for it, they
are put under intense pressure to return and
route out properly a clever manipulation
that actually routes people back in. Sinar Parman, a longtime member of the church, had
to escape five separate times before he finally
stopped falling for the routing out ruse.

There are so many important stories that describe Scientologys manipulation of members,
indoctrination of children, intense pressure on
members to impoverish themselves in order
to donate, and the fear all Scientologists go
through as they worry about losing all contact
with their own family members in case one of
them is declared suppressive. Theres the intellectual bankruptcy of study tech, the dead
patients at Scientologys drug rehab centers,
the shocking deprivations of the RPF, the Orwellian double-think of Scientologys internal
justice, the ingrained snitching culture which
encourages family members to turn each other
in for daring to question doctrine. The lista
goes on and on.

From approximately the late 1980s until 2010

when the practice was exposed by the St.
Petersburg Times, Scientology forced young
women in its Sea Organization to have
abortions if they became pregnant.

What is the aim of those expensive courses?

After years of study, prices can reach up to a
thousand dollars an hour for counseling as Scientologists perform exorcisms on themselves
in order to remove unseen entities that stick
to them like parasites. These body thetans
are left over from a galactic genocide that Hubbard said happened 75 million years ago.

Adapted from Tony Ortegas Scientology Primer

at The Underground Bunker

Why do people who leave Scientology

say such damaging things about it?

Besides making for great material for a 2005

episode of South Park, Scientologists really do
pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to rid
themselves completely of these unseen pests.

Scientology is a deeply homophobic organization that believes its processes are a kind of
gay therapy.

Members who dare to criticize Scientology

can be declared suppressive, and all other
members are ordered to disconnect from
them, even if it means splitting up families.
The church denies that this is mandated by
the organization, but stunning examples keep
emerging that the practice is used as harshly as
ever.

And maybe the most objectionable fact about

Scientology is that it tries to keep all of this behavior secret. New recruits are never told that
eventually theyll be paying hundreds of dollars an hour to remove invisible space cooties
with the help of a crude device called an emeter. And thats the answer to the inevitable
refrain you hear in online forums that all religions have crazy beliefs and are all the same.
At least other organizations are up front about
what they believe. Scientology wont even tell
its own members what theyre in for not, at
least, until theyve forked over hundreds of
thousands of dollars and isolated themselves
from friends or family who might discourage
them.

Scientology operates from a Cold-War playbook that cannot be altered since the death of
the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in 1986. That includes an obsession with spying and retaliating against former members and other critics.
Current leader David Miscavige even spent
$10 to 12 million to have one man, a former
church executive, watched like a hawk for 24
years.

At least today, with the help of Google, adults

should have some idea of what theyre in for
before they join Scientology. But increasingly
in the last ten years, its the children who have
grown up in Scientology, without a choice in
the matter, who have become the focus of press
accounts. For a great rundown of what its like
to grow up in Scientology, we recommend a
terrific article by Derek Bloch.

Scientologists are indoctrinated that Scientology has all of the answers to everything. And
so leaving the organization is akin to suicide.
When members do make a run for it, they
are put under intense pressure to return and
route out properly a clever manipulation
that actually routes people back in. Sinar Parman, a longtime member of the church, had
to escape five separate times before he finally
stopped falling for the routing out ruse.

There are so many important stories that describe Scientologys manipulation of members,
indoctrination of children, intense pressure on
members to impoverish themselves in order
to donate, and the fear all Scientologists go
through as they worry about losing all contact
with their own family members in case one of
them is declared suppressive. Theres the intellectual bankruptcy of study tech, the dead
patients at Scientologys drug rehab centers,
the shocking deprivations of the RPF, the Orwellian double-think of Scientologys internal
justice, the ingrained snitching culture which
encourages family members to turn each other
in for daring to question doctrine. The lista
goes on and on.

From approximately the late 1980s until 2010

when the practice was exposed by the St.
Petersburg Times, Scientology forced young
women in its Sea Organization to have
abortions if they became pregnant.

What is the aim of those expensive courses?

After years of study, prices can reach up to a
thousand dollars an hour for counseling as Scientologists perform exorcisms on themselves
in order to remove unseen entities that stick
to them like parasites. These body thetans
are left over from a galactic genocide that Hubbard said happened 75 million years ago.

Adapted from Tony Ortegas Scientology Primer

at The Underground Bunker