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Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International
CelebrityCentre.jpg
Scientology Celebrity Centre on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, California

Formation
1969
Type
Religious
Headquarters
Hollywood, California, USA

President/Commanding officer
 David Petit
Website
scientology.cc
Church of Scientology Celebrity Centres are Scientology churches that are open to the general public but are intended mostly for "artists, politicians, leaders of industry, sports figures and anyone with the power and vision to create a better world."[1]
The Celebrity Centre International was established in Hollywood, California, in 1969 by Yvonne Gillham, a Sea Org member who worked with L. Ron Hubbard. Since then, other centres have been established in New York, London, Paris and a number of other cities across the world.[2]
Critics of Scientology point to Hubbard's launch of "Project Celebrity" in 1955 to recruit celebrities into the church, and that the centres were established as an extension of this initial purpose.[3][4] The church denies the existence of a policy to actively recruit high-ranking celebrities.[5][6]
The current President and Commanding Officer of Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood is Captain David Petit.[citation needed]


Contents  [hide]
1 Violent incident
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

Violent incident[edit]
On November 23, 2008, Mario Majorski arrived at the Los Angeles Celebrity Centre wielding dual samurai swords and threatening to injure people. Majorski was shot by Celebrity Centre security guards, and was later pronounced dead at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Police regard the guards' actions as justifiable. Majorski was a Scientologist in the early 1990s; however, he left the group fifteen years prior to the incident, according to Tommy Davis, who was head of the Centre at the time.[7][8] When he was still a member of the church, Majorski had filed lawsuits, later dismissed, against Louis West, a psychiatrist who was critical of Scientology.[9]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Scientology portal
Scientology and celebrities
Renaissance (restaurant)
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International". Church of Scientology Celebrity International. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Wright, Lawrence (February 14, 2011). "The Apostate". The New Yorker. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
3.Jump up ^ William Shaw, What do Tom Cruise and John Travolta know about Scientology that we don't?, The Daily Telegraph, February 15, 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Claire Hoffman and Kim Christensen (Los Angeles Times)Tom Cruise and Scientology, Newsday, December 18, 2005.
5.Jump up ^ Official transcript for Countdown show (May 12, 2006)
6.Jump up ^ YouTube video with part of the show related to Scientology
7.Jump up ^ Strange, Hannah (2008-11-24). "Scientology guards kill swordwielding man in LA". The Times (London). Retrieved 2010-04-28.
8.Jump up ^ Ryan, Harriet (2008-12-04). "Killer of sword-wielding man won't face charges". The Los Angeles Times.
9.Jump up ^ Ryan, Harriet; Wagner, James (25 November 2008). "Man shot at Scientology site had made threats". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
References[edit]
Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert W. (1990-06-25). "The Courting of Celebrities". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Frantz, Douglas (1998-02-13). "Scientology's Star Roster Enhances Image". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Di Matteo, Enzo (2000-01-13). "Ex-Scientology celebs recall swingin' 70s". Now Magazine. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Huus, Kari (2005-07-05). "Scientology courts the stars". MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Goodyear, Dana (2008-01-14). "Château Scientology". Letter from California. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
External links[edit]
 Wikinews has News related to this article:
Security guard for Scientology building shoots, kills man

"Scientology Celebrity Centre International". Church of Scientology International.
"Ecclesiastical Structure: "Celebrity Centre Churches"". A presentation of the Celebrity Centres churches. Church of Scientology.


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Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International
CelebrityCentre.jpg
Scientology Celebrity Centre on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, California

Formation
1969
Type
Religious
Headquarters
Hollywood, California, USA

President/Commanding officer
 David Petit
Website
scientology.cc
Church of Scientology Celebrity Centres are Scientology churches that are open to the general public but are intended mostly for "artists, politicians, leaders of industry, sports figures and anyone with the power and vision to create a better world."[1]
The Celebrity Centre International was established in Hollywood, California, in 1969 by Yvonne Gillham, a Sea Org member who worked with L. Ron Hubbard. Since then, other centres have been established in New York, London, Paris and a number of other cities across the world.[2]
Critics of Scientology point to Hubbard's launch of "Project Celebrity" in 1955 to recruit celebrities into the church, and that the centres were established as an extension of this initial purpose.[3][4] The church denies the existence of a policy to actively recruit high-ranking celebrities.[5][6]
The current President and Commanding Officer of Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood is Captain David Petit.[citation needed]


Contents  [hide]
1 Violent incident
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

Violent incident[edit]
On November 23, 2008, Mario Majorski arrived at the Los Angeles Celebrity Centre wielding dual samurai swords and threatening to injure people. Majorski was shot by Celebrity Centre security guards, and was later pronounced dead at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Police regard the guards' actions as justifiable. Majorski was a Scientologist in the early 1990s; however, he left the group fifteen years prior to the incident, according to Tommy Davis, who was head of the Centre at the time.[7][8] When he was still a member of the church, Majorski had filed lawsuits, later dismissed, against Louis West, a psychiatrist who was critical of Scientology.[9]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Scientology portal
Scientology and celebrities
Renaissance (restaurant)
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International". Church of Scientology Celebrity International. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Wright, Lawrence (February 14, 2011). "The Apostate". The New Yorker. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
3.Jump up ^ William Shaw, What do Tom Cruise and John Travolta know about Scientology that we don't?, The Daily Telegraph, February 15, 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Claire Hoffman and Kim Christensen (Los Angeles Times)Tom Cruise and Scientology, Newsday, December 18, 2005.
5.Jump up ^ Official transcript for Countdown show (May 12, 2006)
6.Jump up ^ YouTube video with part of the show related to Scientology
7.Jump up ^ Strange, Hannah (2008-11-24). "Scientology guards kill swordwielding man in LA". The Times (London). Retrieved 2010-04-28.
8.Jump up ^ Ryan, Harriet (2008-12-04). "Killer of sword-wielding man won't face charges". The Los Angeles Times.
9.Jump up ^ Ryan, Harriet; Wagner, James (25 November 2008). "Man shot at Scientology site had made threats". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
References[edit]
Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert W. (1990-06-25). "The Courting of Celebrities". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Frantz, Douglas (1998-02-13). "Scientology's Star Roster Enhances Image". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Di Matteo, Enzo (2000-01-13). "Ex-Scientology celebs recall swingin' 70s". Now Magazine. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Huus, Kari (2005-07-05). "Scientology courts the stars". MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
Goodyear, Dana (2008-01-14). "Château Scientology". Letter from California. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
External links[edit]
 Wikinews has News related to this article:
Security guard for Scientology building shoots, kills man

"Scientology Celebrity Centre International". Church of Scientology International.
"Ecclesiastical Structure: "Celebrity Centre Churches"". A presentation of the Celebrity Centres churches. Church of Scientology.


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Scientology and celebrities

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 A Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Recruiting Scientologist celebrities and getting them to endorse Scientology to the public at large has always been very important to the Church of Scientology. Scientology has had a written program governing celebrity recruitment since at least 1955, when L. Ron Hubbard created "Project Celebrity", offering rewards to Scientologists who recruited targeted celebrities.[1][2] Early interested parties included former silent-screen star Gloria Swanson and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck.[2][3] A Scientology policy letter of 1976 states that "rehabilitation of celebrities who are just beyond or just approaching their prime" enables the "rapid dissemination" of Scientology.[4][5][6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Coordinated effort
2 Notable Scientologists
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Coordinated effort[edit]
The Church of Scientology operates special Celebrity Centres. Scientology policy governs the Celebrity Centres (the main one in Los Angeles and others in Paris, Nashville, and elsewhere), stating that "one of the major purposes of the Celebrity Centre and its staff is to expand the number of celebrities in Scientology." (Scientology Flag Order 2310) Another order describes Celebrity Centre's Public Clearing Division and its goal, "broad public into Scientology from celebrity dissemination"; this division has departments for planning celebrity events and routing the general public onto Scientology services as a result of celebrity involvement.[1][7]
As founder L. Ron Hubbard put it:

Celebrities are very Special people and have a very distinct line of dissemination. They have comm[unication] lines that others do not have and many medias [sic] to get their dissemination through (Flag Order 3323, 9 May 1973)[8]
Hugh B. Urban, professor of religious studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University said about Scientology's appeal to celebrities in an interview for Beliefnet.com:

But then I think the reason that celebrities would be interested is because it's a religion that fits pretty well with a celebrity kind of personality. It's very individualistic. It celebrates your individual identity as ultimately divine. It claims to give you ultimate power over your own mind, self, destiny, so I think it fits well with an actor personality. And then the wealth question: These aren't people who need more wealth, but what they do need, or often want at least, is some kind of spiritual validation for their wealth and lifestyle, and Scientology is a religion that says it's OK to be wealthy, it's OK to be famous, in fact, that's a sign of your spiritual development. So it kind of is a spiritual validation for that kind of lifestyle.[9]
Notable Scientologists[edit]
The Church of Scientology has a long history of seeking out artists, musicians, writers and actors, and states that Scientology can help them in their lives and careers.[10] Among the celebrity Scientologists are Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Jenna Elfman, Kirstie Alley, and Kelly Preston,[11] as well as Elisabeth Moss,[12] Isaac Hayes,[13] Catherine Bell,[citation needed] Nancy Cartwright,[citation needed] Beck,[citation needed] Doug E. Fresh,[citation needed] Erika Christensen,[citation needed] Jason Lee,[citation needed] Edgar Winter,[citation needed] Giovanni Ribisi,[citation needed] Laura Prepon,[citation needed] Anne Archer,[citation needed] Chick Corea,[citation needed] and Julia Migenes.[citation needed]
According to prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi in his 1974 book Helter Skelter, American serial murderer Charles Manson had been an avid Scientologist in the mid-1950s, claiming for years to be proud of his Theta Clear status.[14] Bugliosi referenced Manson's interest in Scientology several times during his trial as a basis for some of Manson's psychologies about human culture and behavior.[14]
See also[edit]
List of Scientologists
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert W. (1990-06-25). "The Courting of Celebrities". Los Angeles Times. p. A18:5. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Shaw, William (2008-02-14). "What do Tom Cruise and John Travolta know about Scientology that we don't?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
3.Jump up ^ Cusack, Carole M. "Celebrity, the Popular Media, and Scientology: Making Familiar the Unfamiliar"
4.Jump up ^ Lewis, James R. (2009). Scientology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 394–395. ISBN 978-0-19-533149-3.
5.Jump up ^ Baker, Russ (April 1997). "Clash of Titans". George.
6.Jump up ^ L. Ron Hubbard. "HCO Policy Letter 23 May 1976R: Celebrities". Scientology Celebrities & Human Rights. Church of Scientology International.
7.Jump up ^ Scientology and Celebrities - Premiere Magazine
8.Jump up ^ Farrow, Boyd (2006-08-01). "The A-listers' belief system". The New Statesman. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.beliefnet.com/story/169/story_16925_1.html
10.Jump up ^ "Artists Find Inspiration, Education at Church of Scientology & Celebrity Centre Nashville." The Tennessee Tribune, Jan 20-Jan 26, 2011. Vol. 22, Iss. 3, pg. 14A
11.Jump up ^ Goodyear, Dana (2008-01-14). "Château Scientology". Letter from California. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
12.Jump up ^ Silman, Anna (April 7, 2015). "Scientology and Elisabeth Moss: What the "Mad Men" star isn’t talking about in interviews". Salon.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
13.Jump up ^ Friedman, Roger (August 11, 2008). "Isaac Hayes' History With Scientology". Fox News. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Bugliosi, Vincent; Curt Gentry (2001). Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 144, 200–202, 225, 300–301, 316, 318, 608, 610–611. ISBN 0-393-32223-8.
External links[edit]


 This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (April 2015)
 Wikinews has related Scientology news:
October 19: Exclusive: 'The Scientology Reformation' author examines Tom Cruise and David Miscavige
September 10: ABC News yanks 20/20 investigation of Tom Cruise and Scientology
February 2: Scientology guilty of fraud rules French appeal court
December 2: Australian woman claims Church of Scientology imprisoned her for twelve years

"Celebrity Centre International". Presentation of the Celebrity Centers and news about Scientologist celebrities. Church of Scientology.
"Successes". A presentation of successes in Scientology by some Celebrities. Church of Scientology.
"Scientology: Training and the Arts". Testimonials from celebrities Anne Archer, Chick Corea, Isaac Hayes and Juliette Lewis and other artists. Church of Scientology.
Notable Scientologists at DMOZ
"Scientology and Celebrities" (PERSONAL SITE). Critical site. Scientology Lies.
"Project Celebrity" (PERSONAL SITE). Scan of Hubbard's instructions to use Celebrities for Scientology. Xenu.net.
"The Cult of Celebrities" (PERSONAL SITE). Hubbard names celebrities as "quarry" to be "hunted". Xenu.net.
"Scientology Recruits Hollywood". How Scientology recruits celebrities, and what benefits they receive. Factnet.
"Another look at Scientology: Scientology Celebrities" (PERSONAL SITE). By Bernie.
"Celebrity Critics of Scientology - Celebrities against Scientology". FACTnet.
"Scientology definition of "celebrity"". Scan of HCO Policy Letter 23 May 1976R. Scientology Celebrities & Human Rights.


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Scientology and celebrities

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 A Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Recruiting Scientologist celebrities and getting them to endorse Scientology to the public at large has always been very important to the Church of Scientology. Scientology has had a written program governing celebrity recruitment since at least 1955, when L. Ron Hubbard created "Project Celebrity", offering rewards to Scientologists who recruited targeted celebrities.[1][2] Early interested parties included former silent-screen star Gloria Swanson and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck.[2][3] A Scientology policy letter of 1976 states that "rehabilitation of celebrities who are just beyond or just approaching their prime" enables the "rapid dissemination" of Scientology.[4][5][6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Coordinated effort
2 Notable Scientologists
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Coordinated effort[edit]
The Church of Scientology operates special Celebrity Centres. Scientology policy governs the Celebrity Centres (the main one in Los Angeles and others in Paris, Nashville, and elsewhere), stating that "one of the major purposes of the Celebrity Centre and its staff is to expand the number of celebrities in Scientology." (Scientology Flag Order 2310) Another order describes Celebrity Centre's Public Clearing Division and its goal, "broad public into Scientology from celebrity dissemination"; this division has departments for planning celebrity events and routing the general public onto Scientology services as a result of celebrity involvement.[1][7]
As founder L. Ron Hubbard put it:

Celebrities are very Special people and have a very distinct line of dissemination. They have comm[unication] lines that others do not have and many medias [sic] to get their dissemination through (Flag Order 3323, 9 May 1973)[8]
Hugh B. Urban, professor of religious studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University said about Scientology's appeal to celebrities in an interview for Beliefnet.com:

But then I think the reason that celebrities would be interested is because it's a religion that fits pretty well with a celebrity kind of personality. It's very individualistic. It celebrates your individual identity as ultimately divine. It claims to give you ultimate power over your own mind, self, destiny, so I think it fits well with an actor personality. And then the wealth question: These aren't people who need more wealth, but what they do need, or often want at least, is some kind of spiritual validation for their wealth and lifestyle, and Scientology is a religion that says it's OK to be wealthy, it's OK to be famous, in fact, that's a sign of your spiritual development. So it kind of is a spiritual validation for that kind of lifestyle.[9]
Notable Scientologists[edit]
The Church of Scientology has a long history of seeking out artists, musicians, writers and actors, and states that Scientology can help them in their lives and careers.[10] Among the celebrity Scientologists are Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Jenna Elfman, Kirstie Alley, and Kelly Preston,[11] as well as Elisabeth Moss,[12] Isaac Hayes,[13] Catherine Bell,[citation needed] Nancy Cartwright,[citation needed] Beck,[citation needed] Doug E. Fresh,[citation needed] Erika Christensen,[citation needed] Jason Lee,[citation needed] Edgar Winter,[citation needed] Giovanni Ribisi,[citation needed] Laura Prepon,[citation needed] Anne Archer,[citation needed] Chick Corea,[citation needed] and Julia Migenes.[citation needed]
According to prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi in his 1974 book Helter Skelter, American serial murderer Charles Manson had been an avid Scientologist in the mid-1950s, claiming for years to be proud of his Theta Clear status.[14] Bugliosi referenced Manson's interest in Scientology several times during his trial as a basis for some of Manson's psychologies about human culture and behavior.[14]
See also[edit]
List of Scientologists
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert W. (1990-06-25). "The Courting of Celebrities". Los Angeles Times. p. A18:5. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Shaw, William (2008-02-14). "What do Tom Cruise and John Travolta know about Scientology that we don't?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
3.Jump up ^ Cusack, Carole M. "Celebrity, the Popular Media, and Scientology: Making Familiar the Unfamiliar"
4.Jump up ^ Lewis, James R. (2009). Scientology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 394–395. ISBN 978-0-19-533149-3.
5.Jump up ^ Baker, Russ (April 1997). "Clash of Titans". George.
6.Jump up ^ L. Ron Hubbard. "HCO Policy Letter 23 May 1976R: Celebrities". Scientology Celebrities & Human Rights. Church of Scientology International.
7.Jump up ^ Scientology and Celebrities - Premiere Magazine
8.Jump up ^ Farrow, Boyd (2006-08-01). "The A-listers' belief system". The New Statesman. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.beliefnet.com/story/169/story_16925_1.html
10.Jump up ^ "Artists Find Inspiration, Education at Church of Scientology & Celebrity Centre Nashville." The Tennessee Tribune, Jan 20-Jan 26, 2011. Vol. 22, Iss. 3, pg. 14A
11.Jump up ^ Goodyear, Dana (2008-01-14). "Château Scientology". Letter from California. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
12.Jump up ^ Silman, Anna (April 7, 2015). "Scientology and Elisabeth Moss: What the "Mad Men" star isn’t talking about in interviews". Salon.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
13.Jump up ^ Friedman, Roger (August 11, 2008). "Isaac Hayes' History With Scientology". Fox News. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Bugliosi, Vincent; Curt Gentry (2001). Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 144, 200–202, 225, 300–301, 316, 318, 608, 610–611. ISBN 0-393-32223-8.
External links[edit]


 This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (April 2015)
 Wikinews has related Scientology news:
October 19: Exclusive: 'The Scientology Reformation' author examines Tom Cruise and David Miscavige
September 10: ABC News yanks 20/20 investigation of Tom Cruise and Scientology
February 2: Scientology guilty of fraud rules French appeal court
December 2: Australian woman claims Church of Scientology imprisoned her for twelve years

"Celebrity Centre International". Presentation of the Celebrity Centers and news about Scientologist celebrities. Church of Scientology.
"Successes". A presentation of successes in Scientology by some Celebrities. Church of Scientology.
"Scientology: Training and the Arts". Testimonials from celebrities Anne Archer, Chick Corea, Isaac Hayes and Juliette Lewis and other artists. Church of Scientology.
Notable Scientologists at DMOZ
"Scientology and Celebrities" (PERSONAL SITE). Critical site. Scientology Lies.
"Project Celebrity" (PERSONAL SITE). Scan of Hubbard's instructions to use Celebrities for Scientology. Xenu.net.
"The Cult of Celebrities" (PERSONAL SITE). Hubbard names celebrities as "quarry" to be "hunted". Xenu.net.
"Scientology Recruits Hollywood". How Scientology recruits celebrities, and what benefits they receive. Factnet.
"Another look at Scientology: Scientology Celebrities" (PERSONAL SITE). By Bernie.
"Celebrity Critics of Scientology - Celebrities against Scientology". FACTnet.
"Scientology definition of "celebrity"". Scan of HCO Policy Letter 23 May 1976R. Scientology Celebrities & Human Rights.


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Scientology and sexual orientation

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Scientology and its perspectives on sexual orientation are based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. His statements about homosexuality have led critics to assert that Scientology promotes homophobia, though these allegations are disputed by some Scientologists.


Contents  [hide]
1 Classification
2 Attempts to cure homosexuality
3 Current Scientology viewpoints
4 See also
5 Notes
6 Further reading
7 External links

Classification[edit]
In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his "science of the mind," Dianetics. He classified homosexuality as an illness or sexual perversion, citing contemporary psychiatric and psychological textbooks to support his view:

The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II [i.e. sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically...he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society...[1]
Hubbard further defined perversion in his 1951 book Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior, where he introduced the concept of the "tone scale", a means of classifying individuals and human behavior on a chart running from +40 (the most beneficial) to -40 (the least beneficial). Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality, was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat, ...the subversive." He considered such people to be "skulking coward[s] who yet contain enough perfidious energy to strike back, but not enough courage ever to give warning."[2]
He characterized "promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices" as well as "free love, easy marriage and quick divorce" as being undesirable activities, "since it is non-survival not to have a well ordered system for the creation and upbringing of children, by families." Such "sexual perverts" engaged in "irregular practices which do anything but tend toward the creation of children" and "efforts [which] tend not towards enjoyment but toward the pollution and derangement of sex itself so as to make it as repulsive as possible to others and so to inhibit procreation."[3]
Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears likewise classified homosexuality as "about 1.1 (covert hostility) on the tone scale", along with "general promiscuity". He set out what he saw as the cause of homosexuality: a mental "aberration", with the result that "an individual aberrated enough about sex will do strange things to be a cause or an effect. He will substitute punishment for sex. He will pervert others. Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others." The "aberration" was caused by a child trying to "continue the life" of a dominant parent of the opposite sex.[4]
Hubbard's views on homosexuality were further explained in a 1972 book by Scientologist Ruth Minshull, How To Choose Your People, which was published through the Church of Scientology, copyrighted to Hubbard, and given "issue authority" by the Scientology hierarchy. Scientology churches sold the book alongside the works of Hubbard until 1983.[5] Minshull described the "gentle-mannered homosexual" as a classic example of the "subversive" 1.1 personality, commenting that they "may be fearful, sympathetic, propitiative, griefy or apathetic. Occasionally they manage an ineffectual tantrum." Minshull claimed they were social misfits:

Homosexuals don't practice love; 1.1s can't. Their relationships consist of: 1) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity. It could hardly be otherwise since the tone is made up of suspicion and hate, producing a darling sweetness interspersed with petty peevishness. Their "love" turns to deep contempt eventually.[6]
Homosexuals had no redeeming "social value," in Minshull's view. She cautioned that "homosexuals should not be abused or ridiculed. But a society bent on survival must recognize any aberration as such and seek to raise people out of the low emotion that produces it."
Jon Atack notes that L. Ron Hubbard's son Quentin Hubbard was homosexual.[7] According to Atack, L. Ron Hubbard had repeatedly announced that his son Quentin would succeed him after his death, but Quentin died of an apparent suicide in 1976.[7]
Attempts to cure homosexuality[edit]
There is some evidence that Hubbard's Dianetics movement sought to use Dianetics to "cure" homosexuality. In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of Elizabeth, NJ published Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, a booklet providing the results of psychometric tests conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy. It presents case histories and a number of X-ray plates to support claims that Dianetics had cured "aberrations" including bipolar disorder, asthma, arthritis, colitis, and "overt homosexuality," and that after Dianetic processing, test subjects experienced significantly increased scores on a standardized IQ test.[8]
In Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears, he set out instructions for Dianeticists to "cure" homosexuality. After claiming that the cause of homosexuality was a fixation on a dominant parent of the opposite sex, he advised, "Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated."[4]
Hubbard urged society to tackle the issue of "sexual perversion" (including homosexuality), calling it "of vital importance, if one wishes to stop immorality, and the abuse of children." In Science of Survival, he called for drastic action to be taken against sexual perverts, whom he rated as "1.1 individuals":

Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations. One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a cantonment, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal. In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writhings of secret hate.[2]
In later years, Hubbard sought to distance himself from efforts to regulate the sexual affairs of lay Scientologists. In a 1967 policy letter, he declared: "It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition...Therefore all former rules, regulations and polices relating to the sexual activities of Scientologists are cancelled."[9] Members of the Sea Org remained under strict rules according to a 1978 order.[10]
Current Scientology viewpoints[edit]
Although Hubbard's views on homosexuality remain unamended in modern editions of Scientology books, gay Scientologists have argued that Hubbard and the Church have set aside any anti-homosexual views expressed in the past. In 2002 the American Church of Scientology published a press release on its website quoting gay activist Keith Relkin as saying, "Over the years I have worked with the Church of Scientology for greater inclusion of gay people like me, and today represents a milestone in that progress."[11] Paul Haggis, a Hollywood screenwriter and director, publicly left Scientology in October 2009, claiming that the San Diego branch of the Church of Scientology gave its support to California Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage. Haggis wrote to Tommy Davis, the Church's spokesman, and requested that he denounce their support for Prop 8. However, the Church disputes this, with Davis stating, "Church of Scientology San Diego had been put on a list of churches that supported Proposition 8 out in California. It was incorrectly included and named when it should have never been on the list to begin with." Davis also stated that the inclusion of the San Diego branch on the list supporting Prop. 8 was the work of a single employee, who was removed from his post and the Church's name taken off the list.[12][13][14][15]
A 2004 article in the St. Petersburg Times reported that the Church defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman.[16]
Melissa M. Wilcox, notes in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America that while present-day detractors of Scientology accuse it of homophobia, government suspicion in the early days of Scientology apparently included accusations of homosexuality.[17] In response to a query by her about the Church's current position, the Church of Scientology in 2005 stated:

The Church of Scientology does not dictate sexual preferences. Scientology is a practical method of improving conditions in life and works to increase a person's abilities, give higher IQ and better reaction time, greater ability to solve his problems in life – things of this nature."[17]
An official Scientology website states, "The second dynamic is the urge toward existence as a future generation. It has two compartments: sex; and the family unit, including the rearing of children. A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. So one can be fairly sure that he who destroys marriage destroys the civilization."[18]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Scientology portal
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##Scientology and sex

Notes[edit]
Note: HCOB refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins", HCOPL refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters", and SHSBC refers to "Saint Hill Special Briefing Courses". All have been made publicly available by the Church of Scientology in the past, both as individual documents or in bound volumes.
1.Jump up ^ Hubbard (1978). Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Church of Scientology of California. pp. 122–123. ISBN 0-88404-000-3.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Hubbard (1975). Science of Survival. Church of Scientology of California. pp. 88–90. ISBN 0-88404-001-1.
3.Jump up ^ Hubbard 1975, pp. 114–115, 159
4.^ Jump up to: a b Hubbard, Handbook for Preclears, p. 64. Scientific Press, Wichita, 1951
5.Jump up ^ Eric Townsend, The Sad Tales of Scientology, p. 65. Anima Publishing, 1985. ISBN 0-9510471-0-8
6.Jump up ^ Ruth Minshull, How To Choose Your People, chapter 9. Scientology Ann Arbor, 1972
7.^ Jump up to: a b Atack, Jon (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. Lyle Stuart / Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8184-0499-X.
8.Jump up ^ Benton, Peggy; Ibanex, Dalmyra.; Southon, Gordon; Southon, Peggy. Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, 1951
9.Jump up ^ L. Ron Hubbard (1967-08-11). ""Second Dynamic Rules", HCOPL of 11 August 1967". Hubbard Communications Office.
10.Jump up ^ L. Ron Hubbard (1978-12-21). ""2-D Rules", Flag Order 3739 21 December 1978". Hubbard Communications Office. "The Sea Org is an elite group and therefore should have very high and optimum ethical standards."
11.Jump up ^ "Human Rights "Multathlon" Running Team Presented with Rainbow Flag in West Hollywood". Church of Scientology. Archived from the original on 2012-02-12.
12.Jump up ^ Hazlett, Courtney (October 28, 2009). "Spokesman Scientologists aren’t anti-gay". NBC News. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
13.Jump up ^ Brooks, Xan (October 26, 2009). "Film-maker Paul Haggis quits Scientology over gay rights stance". The Guardian. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
14.Jump up ^ Ortega, Tony (October 25, 2009). "'Crash' Director Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology". Runnin' Scared (The Village Voice). Retrieved 2009-10-25.
15.Jump up ^ Moore, Matthew (26 October 2009). "Crash director Paul Haggis quits Church of Scientology over gay marriage opposition". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
16.Jump up ^ "About Scientology". St. Petersburg Times. 2004-07-18. Retrieved 2006-09-02.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Gallagher, Eugene V.; Ashcraft, Michael (2006). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT/London, UK, Vol. 1, pp. 263–264
18.Jump up ^ "The Dynamics". Church of Scientology International. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
Further reading[edit]
##Zellner, William W.; Richard T. Schaefer (2007). "Church of Scientology: Social Positions". Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles. Worth Publishers. pp. 296–297. ISBN 0-7167-7034-2.
External links[edit]
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##The Church of Scientology & homosexuality, article from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance


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Scientology and its perspectives on sexual orientation are based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. His statements about homosexuality have led critics to assert that Scientology promotes homophobia, though these allegations are disputed by some Scientologists.


Contents  [hide]
1 Classification
2 Attempts to cure homosexuality
3 Current Scientology viewpoints
4 See also
5 Notes
6 Further reading
7 External links

Classification[edit]
In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his "science of the mind," Dianetics. He classified homosexuality as an illness or sexual perversion, citing contemporary psychiatric and psychological textbooks to support his view:

The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II [i.e. sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically...he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society...[1]
Hubbard further defined perversion in his 1951 book Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior, where he introduced the concept of the "tone scale", a means of classifying individuals and human behavior on a chart running from +40 (the most beneficial) to -40 (the least beneficial). Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality, was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat, ...the subversive." He considered such people to be "skulking coward[s] who yet contain enough perfidious energy to strike back, but not enough courage ever to give warning."[2]
He characterized "promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices" as well as "free love, easy marriage and quick divorce" as being undesirable activities, "since it is non-survival not to have a well ordered system for the creation and upbringing of children, by families." Such "sexual perverts" engaged in "irregular practices which do anything but tend toward the creation of children" and "efforts [which] tend not towards enjoyment but toward the pollution and derangement of sex itself so as to make it as repulsive as possible to others and so to inhibit procreation."[3]
Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears likewise classified homosexuality as "about 1.1 (covert hostility) on the tone scale", along with "general promiscuity". He set out what he saw as the cause of homosexuality: a mental "aberration", with the result that "an individual aberrated enough about sex will do strange things to be a cause or an effect. He will substitute punishment for sex. He will pervert others. Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others." The "aberration" was caused by a child trying to "continue the life" of a dominant parent of the opposite sex.[4]
Hubbard's views on homosexuality were further explained in a 1972 book by Scientologist Ruth Minshull, How To Choose Your People, which was published through the Church of Scientology, copyrighted to Hubbard, and given "issue authority" by the Scientology hierarchy. Scientology churches sold the book alongside the works of Hubbard until 1983.[5] Minshull described the "gentle-mannered homosexual" as a classic example of the "subversive" 1.1 personality, commenting that they "may be fearful, sympathetic, propitiative, griefy or apathetic. Occasionally they manage an ineffectual tantrum." Minshull claimed they were social misfits:

Homosexuals don't practice love; 1.1s can't. Their relationships consist of: 1) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity. It could hardly be otherwise since the tone is made up of suspicion and hate, producing a darling sweetness interspersed with petty peevishness. Their "love" turns to deep contempt eventually.[6]
Homosexuals had no redeeming "social value," in Minshull's view. She cautioned that "homosexuals should not be abused or ridiculed. But a society bent on survival must recognize any aberration as such and seek to raise people out of the low emotion that produces it."
Jon Atack notes that L. Ron Hubbard's son Quentin Hubbard was homosexual.[7] According to Atack, L. Ron Hubbard had repeatedly announced that his son Quentin would succeed him after his death, but Quentin died of an apparent suicide in 1976.[7]
Attempts to cure homosexuality[edit]
There is some evidence that Hubbard's Dianetics movement sought to use Dianetics to "cure" homosexuality. In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of Elizabeth, NJ published Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, a booklet providing the results of psychometric tests conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy. It presents case histories and a number of X-ray plates to support claims that Dianetics had cured "aberrations" including bipolar disorder, asthma, arthritis, colitis, and "overt homosexuality," and that after Dianetic processing, test subjects experienced significantly increased scores on a standardized IQ test.[8]
In Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears, he set out instructions for Dianeticists to "cure" homosexuality. After claiming that the cause of homosexuality was a fixation on a dominant parent of the opposite sex, he advised, "Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated."[4]
Hubbard urged society to tackle the issue of "sexual perversion" (including homosexuality), calling it "of vital importance, if one wishes to stop immorality, and the abuse of children." In Science of Survival, he called for drastic action to be taken against sexual perverts, whom he rated as "1.1 individuals":

Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations. One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a cantonment, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal. In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writhings of secret hate.[2]
In later years, Hubbard sought to distance himself from efforts to regulate the sexual affairs of lay Scientologists. In a 1967 policy letter, he declared: "It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition...Therefore all former rules, regulations and polices relating to the sexual activities of Scientologists are cancelled."[9] Members of the Sea Org remained under strict rules according to a 1978 order.[10]
Current Scientology viewpoints[edit]
Although Hubbard's views on homosexuality remain unamended in modern editions of Scientology books, gay Scientologists have argued that Hubbard and the Church have set aside any anti-homosexual views expressed in the past. In 2002 the American Church of Scientology published a press release on its website quoting gay activist Keith Relkin as saying, "Over the years I have worked with the Church of Scientology for greater inclusion of gay people like me, and today represents a milestone in that progress."[11] Paul Haggis, a Hollywood screenwriter and director, publicly left Scientology in October 2009, claiming that the San Diego branch of the Church of Scientology gave its support to California Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage. Haggis wrote to Tommy Davis, the Church's spokesman, and requested that he denounce their support for Prop 8. However, the Church disputes this, with Davis stating, "Church of Scientology San Diego had been put on a list of churches that supported Proposition 8 out in California. It was incorrectly included and named when it should have never been on the list to begin with." Davis also stated that the inclusion of the San Diego branch on the list supporting Prop. 8 was the work of a single employee, who was removed from his post and the Church's name taken off the list.[12][13][14][15]
A 2004 article in the St. Petersburg Times reported that the Church defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman.[16]
Melissa M. Wilcox, notes in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America that while present-day detractors of Scientology accuse it of homophobia, government suspicion in the early days of Scientology apparently included accusations of homosexuality.[17] In response to a query by her about the Church's current position, the Church of Scientology in 2005 stated:

The Church of Scientology does not dictate sexual preferences. Scientology is a practical method of improving conditions in life and works to increase a person's abilities, give higher IQ and better reaction time, greater ability to solve his problems in life – things of this nature."[17]
An official Scientology website states, "The second dynamic is the urge toward existence as a future generation. It has two compartments: sex; and the family unit, including the rearing of children. A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. So one can be fairly sure that he who destroys marriage destroys the civilization."[18]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Scientology portal
Portal icon LGBT portal
##Scientology and sex

Notes[edit]
Note: HCOB refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins", HCOPL refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters", and SHSBC refers to "Saint Hill Special Briefing Courses". All have been made publicly available by the Church of Scientology in the past, both as individual documents or in bound volumes.
1.Jump up ^ Hubbard (1978). Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Church of Scientology of California. pp. 122–123. ISBN 0-88404-000-3.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Hubbard (1975). Science of Survival. Church of Scientology of California. pp. 88–90. ISBN 0-88404-001-1.
3.Jump up ^ Hubbard 1975, pp. 114–115, 159
4.^ Jump up to: a b Hubbard, Handbook for Preclears, p. 64. Scientific Press, Wichita, 1951
5.Jump up ^ Eric Townsend, The Sad Tales of Scientology, p. 65. Anima Publishing, 1985. ISBN 0-9510471-0-8
6.Jump up ^ Ruth Minshull, How To Choose Your People, chapter 9. Scientology Ann Arbor, 1972
7.^ Jump up to: a b Atack, Jon (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. Lyle Stuart / Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8184-0499-X.
8.Jump up ^ Benton, Peggy; Ibanex, Dalmyra.; Southon, Gordon; Southon, Peggy. Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, 1951
9.Jump up ^ L. Ron Hubbard (1967-08-11). ""Second Dynamic Rules", HCOPL of 11 August 1967". Hubbard Communications Office.
10.Jump up ^ L. Ron Hubbard (1978-12-21). ""2-D Rules", Flag Order 3739 21 December 1978". Hubbard Communications Office. "The Sea Org is an elite group and therefore should have very high and optimum ethical standards."
11.Jump up ^ "Human Rights "Multathlon" Running Team Presented with Rainbow Flag in West Hollywood". Church of Scientology. Archived from the original on 2012-02-12.
12.Jump up ^ Hazlett, Courtney (October 28, 2009). "Spokesman Scientologists aren’t anti-gay". NBC News. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
13.Jump up ^ Brooks, Xan (October 26, 2009). "Film-maker Paul Haggis quits Scientology over gay rights stance". The Guardian. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
14.Jump up ^ Ortega, Tony (October 25, 2009). "'Crash' Director Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology". Runnin' Scared (The Village Voice). Retrieved 2009-10-25.
15.Jump up ^ Moore, Matthew (26 October 2009). "Crash director Paul Haggis quits Church of Scientology over gay marriage opposition". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
16.Jump up ^ "About Scientology". St. Petersburg Times. 2004-07-18. Retrieved 2006-09-02.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Gallagher, Eugene V.; Ashcraft, Michael (2006). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT/London, UK, Vol. 1, pp. 263–264
18.Jump up ^ "The Dynamics". Church of Scientology International. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
Further reading[edit]
##Zellner, William W.; Richard T. Schaefer (2007). "Church of Scientology: Social Positions". Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles. Worth Publishers. pp. 296–297. ISBN 0-7167-7034-2.
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scientology and sexual orientation.
##The Church of Scientology & homosexuality, article from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance


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Scientology and other religions

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The relationship between Scientology and other religions is very complex. While Scientology claims that it is fully compatible with all existing major world religions and that it does not conflict with them or their religious practices, there are major differences in the beliefs and practices between Scientology and most religions, especially the major monotheistic religions. Members are not allowed to engage in other similar mental therapies or procedures, religious or otherwise.[1] However, some ministers from other churches have adopted some Scientology secular programs.[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Church of England
2 Greek Orthodox Church
3 Russian Orthodox Church
4 Lutheran Church
5 Roman Catholic Church
6 Religious compatibility
7 See also
8 Notes
9 External links

Church of England[edit]
The Church of England complained in March 2003 to the Advertising Standards Authority about the Church's advertising poster promoting Narconon—the drug rehabilitation program based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. The poster claimed "250,000 people salvaged from drugs." The Church of England Diocese of Birmingham challenged the claim. Upholding the complaint, the ASA considered that, "without clarification, readers were likely to interpret the claim '250,000 people salvaged from drugs' to mean that 250,000 people had stopped being dependent on street or prescription drugs because of Scientology. The Authority "accepted that more than 250,000 people had undertaken the Church's Drug Purification and Drug Rundown programs, which were designed to free people from the effects of taking drugs," but "the Authority understood that, within Scientology, the concept of 'drug use' referred to a variety of behaviors that ranged from heavy use of street drugs to occasional ingestion of alcohol or prescription medicines and exposure to chemical toxins."[4]
The Diocese of Birmingham objected to Scientology using space in the community centre allotted for religious use. The Diocese pointed out that Scientology does not have religious status in the UK: "Scientology has rightly been refused recognition as a religion by the UK Charity Commissioners" in the words of a Diocese spokesman.[5] The Diocese also stated that Scientology is "as much a religion as a dog is a vegetable."[5]
Greek Orthodox Church[edit]
Maximos Aghiorgoussis, the bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in Pittsburgh, has stated that Scientology is not in fact a "church", but rather a gnostic/theosophical system of thought. He went on to say that there are at least six serious points of contention between the two groups, including:
##the pantheistic nature of Scientology,
##Scientology's contention that the individual is a noncorporeal, semi-divine "thetan," which runs contrary to the Greek Orthodox view that the individual is both body and soul and, while created in the image of God, not a god himself,
##Scientology's belief that the universe is the "result of a game of the thetans", rather than the account of the Genesis creation narrative,
##Scientology's belief that the thetan can be saved through the clearing of its engrams, which differs from the Christian view of salvation being only through Christ, and
##Scientology's view that death is "of no consequence and significance because death is repeated innumerable times", which runs contrary to the Christian view of a single physical incarnation.
He also states that "Scientology teaches that psychic powers, (evil) spirits and out-of-body events can be used in order for the thetans to rediscover their true powers. Because of this, there have been parallels drawn between Scientology and Occultism[citation needed]. He goes on to say that, in spite of Scientology's claims to enhance mental health, that many people have already been damaged by Dianetics. Calling upon what he describes as "unclean spirits", the inexperience of those who do auditing cause "hallucination, irrational behavior, severe disorientation, strange bodily sensations, physical and mental illness, unconsciousness, and suicide. Hubbard admitted most of the above hazards, 'although he maintained that they occurred only through misapplication of the technology of Scientology'".[6]
Russian Orthodox Church[edit]
In May 2001, the Russian Orthodox Church criticized Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unificationists and Mormons as being dangerous "totalitarian sects."[7]
Lutheran Church[edit]
The Lutheran Church in Germany has criticized Scientology's activities and doctrines, along with those of several other religious movements. According to the U.S. State Department's 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, "The Lutheran Church also characterizes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of Christ, Christian Scientists, the New Apostolic Church, and the Johannish Church as 'sects,' but in less negative terms than it does Scientology."[8]
Roman Catholic Church[edit]
The Roman Catholic Church has not made official doctrinal pronouncements specifically related to Scientology, however Cardinal Marc Ouellet stated "Scientology is something else. For me, this community is not a Church".[9] Certain beliefs that are widely associated with Scientology, such as reincarnation, are specifically rejected by the Catholic Church as being incompatible with Catholic belief and practice. Scientology is also, according to a number of religious scholars, a form of gnosticism, which would make it hard to reconcile with Roman Catholicism and other denominations that regard gnosticism as a heresy.[10]
Religious compatibility[edit]
Scientology's claim of religious compatibility to entry-level Scientologists is soon modified by the additional teaching that the various levels of spiritual process which can be reached through Scientology are more advanced than those attainable in other religions. The major monotheistic religions and Scientology share the claim of Universality of their belief system which precludes compatibility in the view of most scholars.[1] Critics point out that, within Scientology, "spiritual abilities" tends to be synonymous with "mystical powers" rather than with "inner peace." Hubbard himself cautioned against the unwise or improper use of powers in his book History of Man.
In its application for tax-exempt status in the United States, the Church of Scientology International states:
“ Although there is no policy or Scriptural mandate expressly requiring Scientologists to renounce other religious beliefs or membership in other churches, as a practical matter Scientologists are expected to and do become fully devoted to Scientology to the exclusion of other faiths. As Scientologists, they are required to look only to Scientology Scriptures for the answers to the fundamental questions of their existence and to seek enlightenment only from Scientology.[11] ”
Hubbard sometimes identified himself with Maitreya (Metteya in Pali), a prophesied Buddha of the future. This identification is made most strongly in his 1955–1956 poem Hymn of Asia, which begins with the line "Am I Metteyya?" and emphasizes certain traits of Hubbard that the editors of the publication said matched traits predicted by the "Metteya Legend," such as Metteya appearing in the West, having golden hair or red hair (Hubbard was red-haired), and appearing in a time of world peril, with the earliest of the predicted dates for his return being 2,500 years after Gautama Buddha, or roughly 1950. According to sociologist Stephen A. Kent, however, the traits which the editors say are predicted by the "Metteya Legend" either are not actually present in the Buddhist texts or in some cases are contradicted by the texts: instead of coming at a time of world peril, for instance, the predictions about Maitreya say he will be born to royalty whose domain is "mighty and prosperous, full of people, crowded and well fed," and rather than having hair "like flames," Kent says that the texts predict curly black hair for the Maitreya.[12]
The revealed beliefs in Scientology at higher levels become increasingly contradictory with the world's major religions. The concept of past lives in Scientology is at odds with Christianity and Islam. Beliefs concerning the origins and age of the Earth, the root of evil, and the nature of man make it impossible to uphold the beliefs of most other religions while also being a Scientologist. Hubbard claimed that Islam was the result of an extraterrestrial memory implant, called the Emanator, of which the Kaaba is supposedly an artifact. Mainstream religions, in his view, had failed to realize their objectives: "It is all very well to idealize poverty and associate wisdom with begging bowls, or virtue with low estate. However, those who have done this (Buddhists, Christians, Communists and other fanatics) have dead ended or are dead ending."[13]
The section of the Fishman Affidavit pertaining to Operating Thetan level VIII put forward that Hubbard said that Jesus was a pederast. The Church of Scientology has consistently held this section of the Fishman Affidavit to be a forgery.[14]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Scientology portal
##Jesus in Scientology
##Scientology
##Scientology as a state-recognized religion
Notes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Steve Bruce: Cathedrals to cults: the evolving forms of the religious life. In: Paul Heelas (Hrsg.): Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity, Blackwell, Oxford 1998, pp. 19-35, 23.
2.Jump up ^ Scientology awards reach out to black community ROBERT FARLEY, St. Petersburg Times, February 18, 2006
3.Jump up ^ Sedensky, Matt (2007-08-25). "Unlikely allies". AP. Knoxville News Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2007-09-01. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
4.Jump up ^ Advertising Standards Authority record of successful Church of England complaint about Narconon advertisement
5.^ Jump up to: a b Cartledge, James (2004-04-24). "Church anger at 'cult' space". Evening Mail. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
6.Jump up ^ "The challenge of metaphysical experiences outside Orthodoxy and the Orthodox response" at ProQuest
7.Jump up ^ "Russian Orthodox Targets 'Totalitarian Sects'" at Zenit News AgencyArchive copy at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
8.Jump up ^ "2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Germany" at United States Department of State
9.Jump up ^ Bussières, Ian (February 5, 2009). "Scientologie: "Ce n'est pas une Église" - Mgr Ouellet". Le Soleil (Power Corporation of Canada). Retrieved 2009-02-17.
10.Jump up ^ Derakhshani, Tirdad (2005-07-03). "Spirituality through therapy". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2006-07-01.[dead link]
11.Jump up ^ Response to Final Series of IRS Questions Prior to Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) As a Church, October 1, 1993
12.Jump up ^ Kent, Stephen A. (1996). "Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions". Journal of Contemporary Religion 11 (1): 21. doi:10.1080/13537909608580753. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
13.Jump up ^ Hubbard, HCO PL of January 21, 1965
14.Jump up ^ Karin Spaink. The Fishman Affidavit: introduction. Retrieved 2008-02-29. [1]
External links[edit]
##www.sweenytod.com Collection of CoS quotations regarding Christianity
##www.skeptictank.org Collection of CoS quotations regarding Christianity


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The relationship between Scientology and other religions is very complex. While Scientology claims that it is fully compatible with all existing major world religions and that it does not conflict with them or their religious practices, there are major differences in the beliefs and practices between Scientology and most religions, especially the major monotheistic religions. Members are not allowed to engage in other similar mental therapies or procedures, religious or otherwise.[1] However, some ministers from other churches have adopted some Scientology secular programs.[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Church of England
2 Greek Orthodox Church
3 Russian Orthodox Church
4 Lutheran Church
5 Roman Catholic Church
6 Religious compatibility
7 See also
8 Notes
9 External links

Church of England[edit]
The Church of England complained in March 2003 to the Advertising Standards Authority about the Church's advertising poster promoting Narconon—the drug rehabilitation program based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. The poster claimed "250,000 people salvaged from drugs." The Church of England Diocese of Birmingham challenged the claim. Upholding the complaint, the ASA considered that, "without clarification, readers were likely to interpret the claim '250,000 people salvaged from drugs' to mean that 250,000 people had stopped being dependent on street or prescription drugs because of Scientology. The Authority "accepted that more than 250,000 people had undertaken the Church's Drug Purification and Drug Rundown programs, which were designed to free people from the effects of taking drugs," but "the Authority understood that, within Scientology, the concept of 'drug use' referred to a variety of behaviors that ranged from heavy use of street drugs to occasional ingestion of alcohol or prescription medicines and exposure to chemical toxins."[4]
The Diocese of Birmingham objected to Scientology using space in the community centre allotted for religious use. The Diocese pointed out that Scientology does not have religious status in the UK: "Scientology has rightly been refused recognition as a religion by the UK Charity Commissioners" in the words of a Diocese spokesman.[5] The Diocese also stated that Scientology is "as much a religion as a dog is a vegetable."[5]
Greek Orthodox Church[edit]
Maximos Aghiorgoussis, the bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in Pittsburgh, has stated that Scientology is not in fact a "church", but rather a gnostic/theosophical system of thought. He went on to say that there are at least six serious points of contention between the two groups, including:
##the pantheistic nature of Scientology,
##Scientology's contention that the individual is a noncorporeal, semi-divine "thetan," which runs contrary to the Greek Orthodox view that the individual is both body and soul and, while created in the image of God, not a god himself,
##Scientology's belief that the universe is the "result of a game of the thetans", rather than the account of the Genesis creation narrative,
##Scientology's belief that the thetan can be saved through the clearing of its engrams, which differs from the Christian view of salvation being only through Christ, and
##Scientology's view that death is "of no consequence and significance because death is repeated innumerable times", which runs contrary to the Christian view of a single physical incarnation.
He also states that "Scientology teaches that psychic powers, (evil) spirits and out-of-body events can be used in order for the thetans to rediscover their true powers. Because of this, there have been parallels drawn between Scientology and Occultism[citation needed]. He goes on to say that, in spite of Scientology's claims to enhance mental health, that many people have already been damaged by Dianetics. Calling upon what he describes as "unclean spirits", the inexperience of those who do auditing cause "hallucination, irrational behavior, severe disorientation, strange bodily sensations, physical and mental illness, unconsciousness, and suicide. Hubbard admitted most of the above hazards, 'although he maintained that they occurred only through misapplication of the technology of Scientology'".[6]
Russian Orthodox Church[edit]
In May 2001, the Russian Orthodox Church criticized Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unificationists and Mormons as being dangerous "totalitarian sects."[7]
Lutheran Church[edit]
The Lutheran Church in Germany has criticized Scientology's activities and doctrines, along with those of several other religious movements. According to the U.S. State Department's 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, "The Lutheran Church also characterizes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of Christ, Christian Scientists, the New Apostolic Church, and the Johannish Church as 'sects,' but in less negative terms than it does Scientology."[8]
Roman Catholic Church[edit]
The Roman Catholic Church has not made official doctrinal pronouncements specifically related to Scientology, however Cardinal Marc Ouellet stated "Scientology is something else. For me, this community is not a Church".[9] Certain beliefs that are widely associated with Scientology, such as reincarnation, are specifically rejected by the Catholic Church as being incompatible with Catholic belief and practice. Scientology is also, according to a number of religious scholars, a form of gnosticism, which would make it hard to reconcile with Roman Catholicism and other denominations that regard gnosticism as a heresy.[10]
Religious compatibility[edit]
Scientology's claim of religious compatibility to entry-level Scientologists is soon modified by the additional teaching that the various levels of spiritual process which can be reached through Scientology are more advanced than those attainable in other religions. The major monotheistic religions and Scientology share the claim of Universality of their belief system which precludes compatibility in the view of most scholars.[1] Critics point out that, within Scientology, "spiritual abilities" tends to be synonymous with "mystical powers" rather than with "inner peace." Hubbard himself cautioned against the unwise or improper use of powers in his book History of Man.
In its application for tax-exempt status in the United States, the Church of Scientology International states:
“ Although there is no policy or Scriptural mandate expressly requiring Scientologists to renounce other religious beliefs or membership in other churches, as a practical matter Scientologists are expected to and do become fully devoted to Scientology to the exclusion of other faiths. As Scientologists, they are required to look only to Scientology Scriptures for the answers to the fundamental questions of their existence and to seek enlightenment only from Scientology.[11] ”
Hubbard sometimes identified himself with Maitreya (Metteya in Pali), a prophesied Buddha of the future. This identification is made most strongly in his 1955–1956 poem Hymn of Asia, which begins with the line "Am I Metteyya?" and emphasizes certain traits of Hubbard that the editors of the publication said matched traits predicted by the "Metteya Legend," such as Metteya appearing in the West, having golden hair or red hair (Hubbard was red-haired), and appearing in a time of world peril, with the earliest of the predicted dates for his return being 2,500 years after Gautama Buddha, or roughly 1950. According to sociologist Stephen A. Kent, however, the traits which the editors say are predicted by the "Metteya Legend" either are not actually present in the Buddhist texts or in some cases are contradicted by the texts: instead of coming at a time of world peril, for instance, the predictions about Maitreya say he will be born to royalty whose domain is "mighty and prosperous, full of people, crowded and well fed," and rather than having hair "like flames," Kent says that the texts predict curly black hair for the Maitreya.[12]
The revealed beliefs in Scientology at higher levels become increasingly contradictory with the world's major religions. The concept of past lives in Scientology is at odds with Christianity and Islam. Beliefs concerning the origins and age of the Earth, the root of evil, and the nature of man make it impossible to uphold the beliefs of most other religions while also being a Scientologist. Hubbard claimed that Islam was the result of an extraterrestrial memory implant, called the Emanator, of which the Kaaba is supposedly an artifact. Mainstream religions, in his view, had failed to realize their objectives: "It is all very well to idealize poverty and associate wisdom with begging bowls, or virtue with low estate. However, those who have done this (Buddhists, Christians, Communists and other fanatics) have dead ended or are dead ending."[13]
The section of the Fishman Affidavit pertaining to Operating Thetan level VIII put forward that Hubbard said that Jesus was a pederast. The Church of Scientology has consistently held this section of the Fishman Affidavit to be a forgery.[14]
See also[edit]

Portal icon Scientology portal
##Jesus in Scientology
##Scientology
##Scientology as a state-recognized religion
Notes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Steve Bruce: Cathedrals to cults: the evolving forms of the religious life. In: Paul Heelas (Hrsg.): Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity, Blackwell, Oxford 1998, pp. 19-35, 23.
2.Jump up ^ Scientology awards reach out to black community ROBERT FARLEY, St. Petersburg Times, February 18, 2006
3.Jump up ^ Sedensky, Matt (2007-08-25). "Unlikely allies". AP. Knoxville News Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2007-09-01. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
4.Jump up ^ Advertising Standards Authority record of successful Church of England complaint about Narconon advertisement
5.^ Jump up to: a b Cartledge, James (2004-04-24). "Church anger at 'cult' space". Evening Mail. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
6.Jump up ^ "The challenge of metaphysical experiences outside Orthodoxy and the Orthodox response" at ProQuest
7.Jump up ^ "Russian Orthodox Targets 'Totalitarian Sects'" at Zenit News AgencyArchive copy at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
8.Jump up ^ "2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Germany" at United States Department of State
9.Jump up ^ Bussières, Ian (February 5, 2009). "Scientologie: "Ce n'est pas une Église" - Mgr Ouellet". Le Soleil (Power Corporation of Canada). Retrieved 2009-02-17.
10.Jump up ^ Derakhshani, Tirdad (2005-07-03). "Spirituality through therapy". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2006-07-01.[dead link]
11.Jump up ^ Response to Final Series of IRS Questions Prior to Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) As a Church, October 1, 1993
12.Jump up ^ Kent, Stephen A. (1996). "Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions". Journal of Contemporary Religion 11 (1): 21. doi:10.1080/13537909608580753. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
13.Jump up ^ Hubbard, HCO PL of January 21, 1965
14.Jump up ^ Karin Spaink. The Fishman Affidavit: introduction. Retrieved 2008-02-29. [1]
External links[edit]
##www.sweenytod.com Collection of CoS quotations regarding Christianity
##www.skeptictank.org Collection of CoS quotations regarding Christianity


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