Intelligent Question

Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology

Mr_Rogers asked this question on 9/18/2000:

You know, this is kind of related to the hate-monger's questions. I wonder how many trillions of dollars psychiatry has sucked out of the civilization of the world for nothing except delivery of destroyed individual lives and countrys?

honorarykid gave this response on 9/19/2000:

It's very important for people who might be inclined toward an interest in Scientology to fully understand what Mr. Rogers is implying here.

Scientology hates psychiatry in a totalistic, irrational way, and to an absolutist degree. Individual Scientologists inculcated with these beliefs and sent out into the world to try and do PR damage to an entire profession, just as Mr. Rogers is trying to do here, by asking such a loaded question.

The Scientologists carry forward this hatred and paranoia about pyschiatry. They even extend their hatred to the pure science of human psychology. They are conditioned to become hostile toward the medical profession as a whole, because it mostly views man as an organism, rather than as a spirit.

So this hatred even extends in some subtle ways to more standard medical fields.

When Scientologists get sick, they are not living organisms fighting off living virii or bacteriological infections, they are abberrated Thetans who have a restimulated bank. Chemicals which kill virii and bacteria are never the answer, Scientology processing is the answer.

Hubbard got in trouble long ago for claiming that most disease was psychosomatic, and that Scientology auditing could cure most diseases. Even after he was slapped down by the FDA, and the E-meter forced by governmental mandate (in the U.S.) to carry a warning that auditing was not a valid medical practice, Hubbard continued to surrepticiously inculcate the belief that auditing could cure cancer and other serious medical conditions. But he always had a good PR shore story ready if anyone ever complained or investigated.

The CoS even has a front group which is (amazingly) called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) whose purpose is dedicated to maligning the the medical profession of psychiatry and the scientific study of human psychology, with the stated intent of completely eradicating these professions from the face of the earth.

It is very common within Scientology for individual Scientologists to be coerced by their fellow members to STOP TAKING PRESCRIBED MEDICINES!

A recently blown, long-time Scientologist named Tory Bazazian described how for years, she suffered epileptic seizures that were completely unnecessary, and easily controllable, simply because her fellow Scientologists had persuaded her that taking her seizure medicines was a back thing to do.

And of course, Lisa McPherson died because Scientologists were deathly afraid that taking her to competant medical care would have resulted in her being held in an psychiatric ward.

It's a shame that Scientology indoctrination continues to create groundless, dangerous, and debilitating paranoia in it's members.

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