Is Scientology a religion, a business, or is it about mind control?

Are they still looking for that guy's wife?? The head honcho's wife disappeared long ago....and no one can find her. All very mysterious. 🙄

Michele Diane Miscavige (née Barnett; born January 18, 1961) is an American Scientologist who was last seen in public in August 2007.
 

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According to the APA (American Psychological Association):

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Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
  1. a religious or quasi-religious group characterized by unusual or atypical beliefs, seclusion from the outside world, and an authoritarian structure. Cults tend to be highly cohesive, well organized, secretive, and hostile to nonmembers.
  2. the system of beliefs and rituals specific to a particular religious group.
I guess that everyone has to make up their own mind, but as someone else posted, it's nothing that I'm interested in.
 

Paco Dennis said:
The Church of Scientology follows the teaching of Ron Hubbard. Does it include the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Bible? I don't think so but I am not sure.

I have heard that it costs money to progress in Hubbard's teaching. Eventually coming to the perfection of his teachings and know your own divinity.?
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Isn't he related to Old Mother Hubbard? 🤣
 
We had 2 fellows that were in API in Pensacola while I was there and were caught trying to indoctrinate several other men into by handing them pamphlets. Both Marines lost their MOS in pre aviation and were reassigned.
 
Della said:
L. Ron Hubbard quote: "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion".

I'd say it's a business.
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Wifey and I had a $10 maximum challenge one Christmas. She gave me an unauthorised biography about L. Ron Hubbard, it was an interesting read and worth every one of the 50c spent. I forget the details as it was 35 years ago now. L. Ron bought a ship once, it didn't end well. 😜
 
IrishEyes said:
In the LDS Church there are ceremonies preformed that you promise never to disclose but nothing is signed, more like an oath to God.
When some leave the church they have spoken about them but I can't say it is a mind controlling thing. Some may prefer to say it is, to benefit their view. I have heard Scientology is much stricter on some things within the church.
Their are those pious self righteous personalities in all religious groups that get more focused on then those, just trying to find their fit/niche and lead a better life. I really take interviews the same way I take gossip, there are more than one side to a story and people will grab out of those stories what they want to believe. (I was a LDS member for 5 years. Then I changed wards due to a move and I learned not all wards are the same and that a church is only as good as the people in them.) I don't regret having been a member but I have my own personal reasoning for leaving.
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I am in absolute agreement with the words in bold.

Also, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", whether they belong to a church or to some other religious organisation, or to none at all.

I am also reminded that when we point a finger at someone else, there are three fingers pointing back at ourselves.
 
Ron L. Hubbard was a genius. He started as a science fiction writer and started believing his own delusions and then started an organization that is worth billions. The only science fiction writer I know to convince people that he was saving the planet.

I tried reading his first science fiction book. It was one of the worse I had ever read. How he got anyone to believe his insanity, still baffles me today. Then that phony machine that was nothing more than an ohm meter.
 

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