Comments on: Child abuse inside the Church of Scientology

By: Jonny Jacobsen

Jonny Jacobsen — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:38:15 +0000

For background on how Scientology can justify this kind of behaviour — and details of US lawsuits that suggest that the Australian cases are not isolated ones — see the latest entry in my blog on violence and abuse inside the movement: Infinite Complacency.
Jonny Jacobsen

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:24:36 +0000

Scientology, and in particular, its spokesman Tommy ‘every time I open my mouth the foot goes straight into the poor’ Davis will extol the virtues of the cult, and Tom Cruise / John Travolta / Kirstie Alley may be polishing this useless turd with their celebrity, but underneath it all Scientology is all about getting your money. There’s no spiritual enlightenment, and any cult that tries to convince you that you’re an alien called a Thetan does away with its own credibility immediately. Scientology claims to be about helping people – Lisa McPherson, if she were here, would definitely disagree.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:47:51 +0000

I am sure there are plenty of abusive women locked into their thought-bending program too. They don’t often seem to start cults, though. Make of that what you will.
The biggest killer of women aged between 25 – 49?
Men.
Not disease, or accidents, or cars.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:44:31 +0000

His books were always the worst kind of drivel, and i say that as a sci fi aficionado. The worst film ever made –
‘Battlefield Earth’ – was based on his book. The depravity of his behaviour over the years has sickened me. These ‘revelations’ are no surprise. In nearly every case of men playing saviour and gathering disciples they have used the power they accumulate to abuse the little ones in their ‘care’. I say men because that is almost always the case.
I say that as a man talking about men – we have a lot to answer for. All some men seem to need are privacy, power and opportunity to abuse those around them. Not all men are abusers, but a significant proportion seem to take the opportunity if given. We should all be careful with our precious offspring.

By: Zorg

Zorg — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:55:44 +0000

The forcing of any religion on children should be illegal. Let people make free decisions for themselves when they are 18+ and we would wipe out religion in a generation.

By: Emma B

Emma B — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:48:32 +0000

@Erin: They do it because L Ron Hubbard wrote that children are essentially born as ‘little adults’, and should, according to him, be able to cope with it, even if society (the ‘wog’ world) said they shouldn’t be made to. Essentially, they do things because L Ron wrote them. They call it the ‘tech’, and it’s rotten throughout, really. The ramblings of a man who wanted to make money through his own religion (and was indeed quotes as saying so), decending slowly into paranoid schizophrenia. They follow it to the letter.

By: J. S-R

J. S-R — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:23:58 +0000

stop calling it a church! it’s a f*cking cult!

(mind you, I think most churches are cults, so… ya)

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:23:53 +0000

This video makes me sick =/

By: epynephrin

epynephrin — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:08:04 +0000

At least with psychology, kids are treated as, you know, human beings…

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:50:04 +0000

I don’t know very much about Scientology so I wished this video would have went into why they did these things, what reason do they have to keep children locked indoors, away from their parents?

Which might help explain why people choose to live like that? I don’t know, I’m left feeling a bit ignorant now