I'm usually loathe to criticize religious views. As far as I'm concerned, I don't care if you pull a turd out of your toilet & pray to it as "Grand Lord Jobu" as long as you don't bother me. Also, I'm somewhat of a lax Catholic & admittedly we have "weirdness" of our own too. However, is Scientology a cult?
The news of the day was this about the impending birth of Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise's child...
Mum-to-be Katie Holmes is gearing up for the silent birth of her first child after Scientologists were spotted carrying signs into her home, reminding her to keep quiet during labour...
...Late Scientology creator L Ron Hubbard urged mothers to keep as quiet as possible during labour so they do not traumatise the child.
On Monday, huge placards saying: "Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable," were carried into the couple's home, to be displayed around the house to remind Holmes to deal with the extreme pain of childbirth quietly.
Am I nuts in thinking that's insane? I'm sure a Scientologist could say, "well what about having a mohel cutting off foreskin?" However, this isn't the only thing about birthing a child that Scientologists get into. About a year ago, I did a diary on Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer, that talked about his problem with Brooke Shields taking anti-depressants for post-partum depression. Cruise thought it could be taken care of with vitamins. This is mainly due to the Scientology belief that Psychiatry is evil...
What the Church opposes are brutal, inhumane psychiatric treatments. It does so for three principal reasons: 1) procedures such as electro-shock, drugs and lobotomy injure, maim and destroy people in the guise of help; 2) psychiatry is not a science and has no proven methods to justify the billions of dollars of government funds that are poured into it; and 3) psychiatric theories that man is a mere animal have been used to rationalize, for example, the wholesale slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II.
The Cruise-Holmes baby story isn't the only one to come out in recent days. Over the weekend it was revealed that
Isaac Hayes didn't really quit "
South Park" over the Scientology episode. Scientologists
put out a statement for him...
ISAAC Hayes may not have quit "South Park" at all - or at least not willingly. Turns out Hayes has been away from Comedy Central's hit show for the past three months because he had a stroke. According to foxnews.com, he's at home recuperating and did not issue the press release which said he was quitting because the show made fun of his faith. That release was put out by fellow Scientologist Christina "Kumi" Kimball, a fashion executive for designer Craig Taylor. According to foxnews.com, "Hayes loves 'South Park' and needs it for income. He has a new wife and a baby on the way."
Now it may be that Hayes is trying to backtrack, but backing the above story up is interviews that Hayes gave
The Onion in January & the
Opie & Anthony Show last December saying that he had
no problem with the
"South Park" episode.
Up until a few years ago I thought Scientology was some kind of "12 Steps" religion, with auditing & e-meters by L. Ron Hubbard. Someone finally clued me into the fact that it borders on being a "UFO Cult" that believes the galactic lord Xenu murdering billions of aliens is responsible for psychological problems on Earth...
Xenu (also Xemu) is a galactic ruler (of the "Galactic Confederacy") who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to cause problems today.
Another interesting apspect of Hubbard's religion is that they believe that most of sci-fi is real. The stories in "Star Trek", Star Wars, "Stargate", and "Battlestar Galactica" actually happened & are repressed memories coming out.
You can read all about Xenu & the other Space Operas HERE...