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Could Scientology Be More Absurd?

xenu.net — This leaflet was written by Roland Rashleigh-Berry. He is an ex-Scientologist who left in disgust when he discovered the material it contains. He has asserted that the leaflet is accurate. (Includes picture of the story in L. Ron's own handwriting, verified by the Religious Technology Center.)

Who dugg this? Made popular May 15, 2007

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  • DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+381"Could Scientology Be More Absurd?"

    No.
  • tHePeOPle, on 10/11/2007, -2/+189ijacker

    Scientology is a Pay-as-you-go cult, masquerading as a religion. They are incredibly adept at brainwashing, and they have countless front organizations to trick people into giving money. They convince people that they need help, and the only way to get it is to pay Scientology. If you can't pay them, they will let you work for them for next to no pay at all. They prey on the weak and vulnerable. They are evil to the core. What "religion" needs that many ***** lawyers?

  • silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+156why on Teegeeack would anyone want to base their life's belief on a science fiction writer?

  • AtheistAcolyte, on 10/11/2007, -4/+145***CENSORED BY SEA ORG LEGAL STAFF***
  • wonkavsn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+144There's no way that Scientology should be considered absurd. I mean it's endorsed by so many celebrities, and everyone knows they're such an exceptionally stable bunch.
  • AtheistAcolyte, on 10/11/2007, -3/+130I suppose they could try, but why would you try to improve on such pure B.S?
  • DeathJux, on 10/11/2007, -4/+101Hey guys I have this great business idea: let's start a religion!
  • jericko, on 10/11/2007, -1/+98Yes, but thanks to Scientology, we had one of the best South Park episodes ever!
  • Foamator, on 10/11/2007, -3/+98Cult.
  • zweben, on 10/21/2007, -2/+83Not just a science fiction writer... a really really bad science fiction writer, if i'm to judge by this.
  • DubbedOver, on 10/11/2007, -2/+81In 50 years when your religion is just starting to take off, I am going to start an anti-'yourreligion' site and use this quote as the basis of my argument. You've really screwed yourself this time!
  • Walker2323, on 10/11/2007, -4/+83Seems very rational to me.

    signed,

    Santa Claus
  • tHePeOPle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+68ijacker

    Do a little reading to see just how they got that tax exempt status. I'll give you a hint, it involves lots of bribery and blackmail of connected officials.
  • vikingcoder, on 10/21/2007, -1/+66“If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.” - L. Ron Hubbard

    http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if-you-want-to-make-a-little-money-write-a-book/1273015.html
  • ArielMT, on 10/11/2007, -4/+66@ijacker

    "let them believe whatever they want."

    That's all good and well, except Scientology is one of the few (the only?) religions that does -not- tell its followers what to believe until they've already invested their lives in it. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Discordianism, Atheism, and even Satanism, among many others, all tell you up front what their core beliefs are, and often for free, but not Scientology.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+63***** Scientology.... and the RIAA
  • explnx, on 04/27/2009, -2/+61This reads like star trek fanfiction.
  • SwissCamel, on 10/11/2007, -5/+58Any 'religion' which would severly reduce the quality of life of any child of John Travolta's can't be all bad.
  • theNazz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+54That's it! I'm setting Xenu free~
  • SomGuye, on 10/11/2007, -0/+48Spelled Xenu...
    Do not misspell your Evil Overlord's name.
  • SomGuye, on 10/11/2007, -2/+48Sadly, I have found a Dianetics Center here in Orlando.
    Laughed so hard I nearly turned into oncoming traffic.
  • SoonerBluff, on 10/11/2007, -8/+54We needed more modern Sci-fi.... Water into Wine and walking on water just won't cut it these days, I mean have you seen Chris Angel?!!
  • julian02392, on 10/11/2007, -1/+46Dianetics sounds like an illness...
  • ijacker, on 10/11/2007, -7/+50@ thepeople

    do they enjoy tax exempt status?

  • dannymacom, on 10/11/2007, -2/+45bunch of greedy people trying to take advantage of the weak minded. equivalent to bum fights in my mind.
  • Shawniferous, on 10/11/2007, -4/+46L.Ron.Hubbard wrote lots of science fiction novels. Scientologists are just like star trek fans. but instead of dressing up and going to conventions. they made a "religion" and cheat people out of their money.

    p.s. Tom Cruise and John Travolta are in the closet.
  • Fordi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+43Dude, that would be hilarious: A 'Free Xenu' protest outside Scientology HQ.
  • SEMW, on 10/11/2007, -4/+44@cerejota:

    > Is Scientology really more absurd than [...] Judaism (keeping sabbath)

    Hmmm. On one hand, keeping one night a week for relaxing with family rather than working. On the other, using brainwashing to seduce people into a crazy cult that leeches all your money and sucks you dry and believes that all humans are infected with aliens called thetans.

    Yeah, about the same on the crazyness scale, I'd reckon.

    ...
  • poonaka, on 10/11/2007, -25/+64"What "religion" needs that many ***** lawyers?"

    Catholics?
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -28/+66Just as absurd as believing that three separate and distinct entities exist as one homogeneous entity outside of time and space yet manifest themselves within time and space in order to save us even though they omnipresent and omnipotent and therefore could do so from wherever. Or just as absurd as believing that when you die you are sent to places for which no evidence exists and that no one has ever seen. Or as absurd as believing that a martyr will receive 72 virgins. Or that storms are caused by Poseidon. Or that the tooth fairy is real.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend Scientology. I just think this is a good opportunity for people to examine the absurdity of all religious beliefs.
  • joshmcd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36Wait a minute...you don't believe in Eskimos?
  • jimmarch1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+37Right, the First Church Of The Divine Digg. We'll be dugg clear to heaven to battle Zenu...
  • Laxaloot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+351.make a "religion"
    2.get people to pay to believe in it
    3. Profit
  • howitzeral, on 10/11/2007, -3/+36First off, Scientology is not a religion. It is most likely a cult that was founded in order to make money.

    Secondly, bashing all religion based on uninformed, inaccurate, incomplete descriptions sounds a heckuva lot like the same kind of closed-minded bigotry that Digg usually ridicules.
  • dougvfr750, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33L Ron couldn't make money as a Sci-Fi writer, so he decided to start his own religion as a way to make lots of money.... looks like he succeeded.
  • JayD16, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30"Could Scientology Be More Absurd?"

    They could have found this story written on gold plates in up state New York.
  • 69sofine, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29NOT a religion.
  • PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28They're all crazy but Scientology is evil, they make you pay to learn their *****, destroy families, sue the critics, commit crimes, etc.
    Catholics did horrible things also but that was long ago when everybody were less civilized.
  • 16x9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26"FREE XENU!"

    Someone has to make that shirt! Of course the Scientologist's "church" would litigate the shirt-maker into a volcano (then nuke them). But until that happened they'd be the coolest shirts you could buy.
  • waveman216, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27$10 says The Dharma Initiative are really all just Scientologists...
  • cooterthekid, on 10/11/2007, -6/+31Horse *****?
  • growlzor, on 10/11/2007, -12/+37lol
  • KorRyal, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27"The only way you can control people is to lie to them"

    -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+27But they're evil!
    Catholic church does not make you pay to be "saved", they don't sue you if you say something they don't like, the bible is not copyrighted, they don't make you lose contact with your non-catholic family members, etc.
    Evil is worst than crazy and Scientology is both.
  • ecrater, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25I saw the BBC show about scientology and apparently clearwater, FL is the home base for them. They run that town. It's really scary!
  • SEMW, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22> i left the church because because they don't care about the material world at all

    If they don't care about the material world at all, why do think they kept asking you for money to level up?
  • bigspruce, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22When L. Ron was a sci-fi author, he wanted 5 cents a word, but the editor would only give him 4. He said he would write
    about a religion that would then make him far more than 5 cents a word. The rest follows...
  • Pureeviljester, on 10/11/2007, -11/+30it doesn't take money to be a Christian
  • SEMW, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21@Kinjiru:

    ...Non Playable Character?
  • MrSketch, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22@julian02392: "I'm catholic but don't follow the religion what-so-ever"

    I guess that would mean you _aren't_ catholic.
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