Scientology Managment Style?
Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology
yertletheturtle asked this question on 8/8/2000:
My question here is basically why should one
be obgligated, or practially left with no choice,
but to have to fully accept the management style of LRH or
David Miscagage in order to participate in Scientology?
Irregardless of all the points of view concerning the tech and
it's benefits, this seems to be the main issue I see coming up
again and again with those who might have some disagreement
with Scientology.
honorarykid gave this response on 8/15/2000:
To the extent that the Scientology "technology" satifies
people's religious yearnings, it should be available for people
outside the CoS. They should be free to alter and modify as
they will, so that they can make their own churches,
churches which are not likely to rabidly sue, harass, and
intimidate, jealously guarding every possible scrap of
revenue and haranguing members to produce more income
and more recruits.
The CoS uses intellectual property law to guard their
materials, rabidly suing and harasssing everyone who tries
to start an independent church, using the same or similar
techniques.
This kind of aggression certainly belies Scientology's claims
that they stand for religious freedom for everyone. They
really only want to protect their own interests, and
thoroughly oppose and squash competing religious interests
that they believe would deny them revenues.
Money grubbing has always been a coarse and ugly thing.
It's not a value upon which churches should be formed.
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote in HCO
PL of 3/9/72, that the purpose of Scientology organizations
was "to make money," "make more money," and "make other
people produce so as to make money."
You can read the "Governing Policy" HCO at
http://www.xenu.net/archive/CourtFiles/occf143.html
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