SPT: Letters to the Editor -- Scientology ought to be avoided
Letters to the Editor
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/10/Opinion/Black_wealth_ought_to.shtml
Scientology ought to be avoided
Re: Scientologists establish missions in their back yard, March 1.
Gee, where can I sign up to give my $1,500 check to the Scientologist
cult to walk on its treadmill, use its sauna and feel better with a
spiritual awakening? Oh, wait -- that money would buy a year's
membership at a good spa.
The awakening? From a group of atheists who worship L. Ron Hubbard?
This is a man who lived for years on boats so the U.S. government
couldn't nail him for crimes and back taxes. He also professed to
flying to another planet and killing all the inhabitants.
I worked as a volunteer at the Lisa McPherson Trust. I remember best
the poor mother who came and asked if we could help her see her daughter.
Twice at the door to their building downtown, she was turned away, told
that "her daughter was in audit and couldn't be seen." The
next time she was told that her daughter had left for California! Ah,
such wonderful "hope-for-man" people.
Beware the "creeping cult." They are not harmless
buffoons. Run, don't walk, from any and all things connected
to Scientology!
-- M.L. Fitzpatrick, Dunedin
A multilevel marketing scheme
Re: Scientologists establish missions in their back yard, by Robert
Farley, March 1.
Why did Robert Farley not include a follow-up question after he asked
whether Kathy Feshbach earns a salary? If he had probed as a reporter
ought to, he would have learned that Scientologists make money for every
new recruit they enlist, exactly like a multilevel marketing scheme pays
the top earners to sign up new distributors.
-- Jean Reeve, Clearwater
St. Petersburg Times
March 10, 2003
[Note: The
Scientology®
organization has at best estimate approximately
45,000 to 50,000 followers world wide -- contrary to the 8 million figure
that the organization has been claiming for the past few years or so.
While that number continues to drop (thanks in part to the Internet) few
of the remaining followers are even aware of the unending series of police
raids, indictments, and prison terms their leaders and fellow cultists are
subjected to routinely. Few are allowed to know about their organization's
criminal history, or its current racketeering activities. Even fewer of
the cult's remaining followers are privy to their messiah's written
policies which dictates the criminal behavior that keeps getting their
organization raided (see Xenu.NET for
suitable references of Scientology policy) Scientology management
is the problem, not the thousands of honest believers who are good,
honest citizens; themselves victims of Scientology - flr]
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