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Scientology is a religion started by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1954. Since it’s start, Scientology has been growing steadily, but is it as innocent as it seems. Many people, including ex members, and many national governments consider this so called Religion to be nothing more than a glorified cult. After watching and observing the feedback and actions of the “Church of Scientology”, many people became angered by their perceived injustices. Thus, the collective known as Anonymous was formed.
Anonymous is a collective or super consciousness, made of many people all around the world. It can be easiest compared to the Borg, of the Star Trek universe. Anonymous started as a joke, on web boards and image bulletins online. Many of these boards allowed users to post without creating an account, attributing their posts to “Anonymous.” From this rose many jokes, attributing the identity of “anonymous” to one person or another, and referring to the collective as one person. When a Scientology recruitment video featuring Tom Cruise was leaked onto the Internet, it spread like wildfire, due in part to the hilarity of it. After numerous postings to such boards, Scientology tried to censor the video, with the goal of removing it from the Internet completely. This angered many people, who felt their rights were being violated. Thus, the group known as Anonymous was formed. After much research and deliberation, it was decided that Scientology as a whole could not exist peacefully in it’s current form, so many decided to start a campaign against it. Because of the nature of this campaign, many participants decided not to put their identity at risk, thus, the retained the identity as Anonymous.
Scientology has been called by many a “cult of greed and power,” the name owing to an article written by Time magazine. While freedom of religion is a founding principle of the United States, Scientology cannot exist as it is without being harmful to all who are associated with it. Part of the core doctrine of Scientology entails the undergoing of hypnosis to eliminate bad memories from past lives from hampering the practitioner in their life. These bad memories, according to official Scientology material, are caused by alien souls called theatans. The process of hypnosis and the removal of these “theatans” is called “Auditing.” These auditing sessions can cost upwards of $500 each, and are required of all members throughout their life as a scientologist. In this auditing, people are led to believe that they are sick if they don’t believe in the Scientology doctrine. They are also told that it is not their fault, but that of an event that happened millions of years ago. This is a common pattern among cults, preaching the innocence of cult members, while enforcing the evils of the outside world, claiming only those who believe are alright. Another core belief of Scientology leads to the direct alienation of family members of scientologists. According to Hubbard’s writings, there are many people who are fundamentally flawed in their personality, who only revel in destruction, and actively oppose the betterment of man. He refers to these people as SPs, or suppressive persons. He also states that since Scientology is, according to their own doctrine, trying to help man, that anyone who opposes it, or does not agree with it, is labeled as an SP. Scientology law states that any communication with an SP will mark you as a traitor to Scientology, so many new members are forced to cease communication with family members and friends. Hubbard was quoted as talking to a friend and saying”If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.” In a Scientology internal memo, he was also quoted with “Make money. Make more money. Make other people make money.”
Scientology’s founder couldn’t even tell the truth to his followers. L Ron Hubbard wrote a book series for his followers that was supposed to be an autobiography. Within this series, he claimed, among other things, to be a decorated war hero, a nuclear physicist, and commander of a sub hunter ship in World War II. Research shows that many of his superiors in his brief stint in the military thought him to be belligerent, schizophrenic, and egotistical. The only class he ever took on nuclear physics, he flunked in the first semester. He also exaggerated about his naval career. Hubbard was briefly in charge of a fishing boat that had been converted into a freighter. Interviews with his crewman showed that the ship had never seen any “real action” as Hubbard had claimed. Recent review by California judge Paul Breckenridge says that “The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be reflective of its founder LRH,” and “The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements.”
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Comments (3)
Second sentence needs a question mark, not a period.
The second paragraph is confusing. At the beginning, you say Anonymous was founded as a joke but at the end you say it was founded as a reaction to suppression by Scientology.
Many of your paragraphs are way too long. They should be broken up into two or more paragraphs.
“Overall, Scientology has no rights to exist as a religion and to continue using such methods as they do. ” This is a statement of opinion in the middle of an apparently evidential essay. If you want to make the statement, you should move it to the end of the essay and identify it as your opinion.
You have the basis for an excellent paper, but it needs some editing.
i think its great!!!
Wow! That was amazing, insightful and just really interesting. I actually didn’t even know that scientology existed until I read your article. To improve it, I think that you should take out the information that is not pivotal. It was a little long, in my opinion. If the length is required, I would suggest changing your tone in a way that keeps the writer interested! Overall, it was wonderful, 5 stars.