Another PR Crisis For Scientology

[KRCummings]

I agree with you, but I think you could make the same argument for many of the more modern religions.

Other than Mormons I can't think of any.

 

[pointless]

Without meaning to get into the debate, the Scientology thing is so very obviously made up that I'm always surprised that anyone buys into it. A science fiction writer founds a religion that just happens to be based on aliens and spaceships after commenting on how easy it would be to get rich by founding a religion and the members don't stop and say "Hey, wait a minute!"

people are stupid. this much has been proven time and time again. also, you really need to give l. ron credit for at least being smart enough to hold off on the dc-9 spaceships and nuking volcanos bull crap until after the suckers were in over their heads.

 

[chillywilly2]

What's the difference again?

The coolaid

 

[KRCummings]

The coolaid

For one thing it's Kool-Aid and for another thing Jim Jones used Flavor-Aid.

 

[chillywilly2]

For one thing it's Kool-Aid and for another thing Jim Jones used Flavor-Aid.

So nice of you to point that out...I'm going to go see if I can find anybody that cares

oh yeah...Davey Jones died

 

[bronzeage]

What's the difference again?

A cult is someone else's religion.

 

[warrior queen]

I heard that as part of her suit she is going to testify as to where the billions of dollars are. Apparently, she has knowledge of a good portion of the money being obtained by duress - and is also privvy to how the church/cult 'tailored' it's fundraising methods for each major donation.
Which is [again, apparently] something that would remove the tax-free status of the religion.
This case could do some major damage.

 

[Sean]

What's the difference again?

Membership numbers.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Why is there not this level of hatred and intolerance of Islam from the left, when Islam has PR crises a thousand times worse than this every day?

Probably because we know that Islam is never, ever going away.

 

[Lord_Steve]

Why is there not this level of hatred and intolerance of Islam from the left, when Islam has PR crises a thousand times worse than this every day?

a false equivalency? well i never

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

If a religion is solid, then why would that religion need a PR to begin with?

 

[Mike_Yates]

He orders his secretary to slap people.

Miscavige deserves his own Lit Forum.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/pr-crisis-scientology-abc-news-exclusive/story?id=15813613

The Church of Scientology, known for celebrity and controversy, is now in the middle of another public relations crisis as a former high-ranking official has created a firestorm, first with an email to church members and then testimony in a Texas state court alleging she saw the church's leader punch another executive in the face, and that at his direction she herself was slapped.

For 17 years Debbie Cook ran the church's spiritual mecca, the so-called Flag Base in Clearwater, Florida, where she ultimately rose to the title of captain. But Cook testified this month that beginning in 2005 she saw behavior exhibited by church leader David Miscavige that disturbed her deeply.

"I witnessed Mr. Miscavige physically punching in the face and wrestling to the ground another very senior executive at Scientology International level," Cook testified in court.

A few weeks later in an interview with ABC News, Cook repeated that assertion. She also said -- as she had testified -- that Miscavige never hit her, but that he ordered his assistant to slap her, and that slap was so hard that Cook was knocked down...

DM (David Miscavige) has done MUCH worse than ordered people to be slapped.

Scientology is an international criminal organization which should be shut down entirely by the feds.