Flat worlders....

Question answered by formerscientologist in Scientology

Anonymous asked this question on 8/6/2000:

when will you ever get away from believing the earth to be flat...the questions here are designed to be provocative and insinuate criminal activity without proof and without prejudice. In all cases the questions are coming from a select group of people whos designs are to destroy religions..I see their questions on other boards as well. there is only one answer to this..flat worlders unwilling to change their viewpoint at the expense of the majority.. so who is the group that is anti Scientology?

formerscientologist gave this response on 8/15/2000:

There is no one single anti-Scientology group. There are many different people who are cynical of Scientology for various reasons.

1. There are materialists who don't believe in spirituality, and can't see Scientology as anything other than a con game.

2. There are people who have witnessed strange behavior in their Scientology friends and family members.

3. There are people who have been hurt by Scientology.

4. There are people who have really liked Scientology and the auditing but have experienced injustice within the CoS and couldn't get it corrected.

5. There are people who feel betrayed because after spending the last of their resources (going bankrupt or about to be bankrupt), they didn't receive their desired gains.

6. There are people who have found that open criticism of Scientology has given them both insight and cognitions.

7. There are people who love Scientology, but despise the CoS.

8. There are people who believe that a true religion runs off of charity.

I don't know if I have covered all the critics with the above categories, but I certainly disagree with Hubbard's statement that critics of Scientology are criminals. A real philosopher or any good journalist would be critical of Scientology and quick to point out any lies.

There is no anti-Scientology group, but critics tend to cluster on the ars newsgroup.

formerscientologist gave this follow-up answer on 8/15/2000:

I have never known a psychiatrist or a psychologist to be critical of Scientology or Dianetics, but if one ever were critical, it would probably be because he would see Dianetics as a "squirrel psychotherapy."

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