Is Scientology compatible with Christianity? Let's ask L. Ron Hubbard
"Fredric L. Rice" <frice@raids.org>
Fri, 12 May 2000 18:48:34 GMT
Is the Church of Scientology compatible with Christianity?
Currently the leaders of the Scientology cult claim that it
is. The writings of the mad messiah, L. Ron Hubbard, and
the ideals and policies that he developed and wrote for the
Church of Scientology to blindly follow, seem to paint a
totally different answer.
You decide:
- o "There are gods above all other gods, and gods beyond
the gods of the universes." (Scientology 8-8008, pp.
72-3).
- o "The whole Christian movement is based on the
victim.... A Scientologist is not a victim.... We can
win by converting victims. Christianity succeeded in
making people into victims. We can succeed by making
victims into people" (HCO Bulletin, 18 July 1959).
- o "Neither Lord Buddha, nor Jesus Christ were OT's
according to the evidence. They were just a shade
above clear" (Ability, No. 81, 1959).
- o Scientology claims that it alone "brings man to total
freedom and truth" (A Description of the Scientology
Religion, p. 57). Isn't this what Jesus died for?
- o "It is despicable and utterly beneath contempt to tell
a man he must repent, that he is evil" (Professional
Auditor Bulletin [PAB] #31, 23 July 1954). "For all
have sinned" is a Christian ideal.
- o "Nobody but the individual can die for his sins" (HCO
Bulletin, 2 January 1960). Isn't this what Jesus died
for?
- o "It is a basic tenet of Scientology that man is
basically good.... Sin is composed... of lies and
hidden actions and is therefore untruth" (What is
Scientology? p. 546).
- o "Hell is a total myth, an invention just to make
people unhappy and is a vicious lie" (PAB #130, 15
Feb. 1958). Is L. Ron Hubbard being punished for his
sins against God even now?
- o "Religion...being basically a control mechanism used
by those who have sent the preclear into a body. You
will find the cross as a symbol all over the universe,
and the Christ legend as an implant in preclears
millions of years ago" (PAB #31, 23 July 1954).
- o In Scientology's Class 8 course, lecture 10, (3 October
1968) Hubbard taught, "Somebody somewhere on this planet,
back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't
know how they found it, either by watching madman or
something. But since that time they have used it and it
became what is known as Christianity. The man on the
cross. There was no Christ" (Corydon and Hubbard, L. Ron
Hubbard, Messiah or Madman? p. 362). [Note 1]
- o "Also the Christian church used (and uses) implanting....
They took over the Nicene Creed before the year zero,
invented Christ (who comes from the crucifixion in R6
75M years ago, and implanted their way to power" (HCO
Bulletin, 23 September 1968, Class VIII). [Note 1]
- o Hubbard claimed that through "scientific research,"
not opinion, he went to heaven. He wrote, "For a long
while some people have been cross with me for my lack
of cooperation in believing in a Christian Heaven, God,
and Christ. I have never said that I didn't disbelieve
in a Big Thetan, but there was something very corny
about heaven, et. al.... There was a heaven.... Yes, I've
been to Heaven. And so have you. You have the pattern
of its implants.... The Symbol of the crucified Christ
is very apt indeed. It's the symbol of a thetan
betrayed.... The place is so full of lies by implant
that the preclear becomes quite confused.... somebody
discovered ...and utilized them to install religious
mania and pin thetans down to 'one life' and planets"
("Routine 3", HCO Bulletin, 11 May, A.D. 13 [pub. 1963]
pp. 1-3).
- o "But I imagine when we finally manage to communicate
with beetles under rocks and free them, we'll no doubt
find the Creator of Heaven who 43+ trillion years ago
designed the Pearly Gates and entrapped us all. Good
Lord, I'd hate to be guilty of that overt" (Ibid., p.4)
- o August Murphy, president of the Church of Scientology
of San Francisco wrote, "Another basic concept
Scientology shares with universal religious thought is
reincarnation. Like Buddhism, Hinduism, and early
Christianity, Scientology believes that the individual
as an immortal being has assumed many bodies in his
evolution in the physical universe toward an ultimate
realization and freedom from material bondage" (The
News-Herald, 27 July 1992 p. 5).
- o Hubbard claims that reincarnation was a belief held by
the early Christian church and was removed by "four
monks" at the "synod of Constantinople" in 553 A.D.
(Have You Ever Lived Before This Life? p. 2).
- o L. Ron Hubbard created an entire universal cosmology
that includes an evil Galactic Ruler named Xenu. He
places humans on other planets in the Solar System,
including Mars and Venus. He populates billions of
planets in the universe with people. Do they all have
Jesus for their redemption? The Bible doesn't mention
any of them. (OT III, see http://www.xenu.net/)
- o L. Ron Hubbard claims that Scientology can give people
supernatural powers including the power to heal the
sick, both body and mind. Hubbard also created a
ritual he called "touch assist" which is a Demonic
version of the laying on of hands which does not call
upon God's power. (See The Road to Xenu, by Margery
Wakefield, for example.)
So what do you think about the Church of Scientology's claim
that their religion is some how compatible with Christianity?
[Note 1] The Church of Scientology claims that the documents
which comprise "Operating Thetan Level 8" are forgeries. It
is therefore surprising to note that when the Church of
Scientology raided the home of Arnie Lerma for alleged
copyright violations, the Church of Scientology identified
copies of the OT8 documents as copyrighted materials
belonging to their Church. Was that an error or does the
Church of Scientology disavow L. Ron Hubbard's ideals and
policies out of both embarrassment and the fact that his goal
is to covertly lead as many people away from Jesus and
redemption as possible?
These ideals and policies of L. Ron Hubbard were collected
and published on the Internet and out in the real world by
the Watchman Fellowship.
http://www.watchman.org/hubrel03.htm
This list was modified by Fredric Rice to the extent that some
clean-up and further commentary was added. Fredric Rice also
added some additional items to the list which contradict
totally Scientology's claim that they're some how compatible
with Christianity.
Additions and corrections to this list should be sent to
Fredric Rice at frice@raids.org