This article explains a lot about the beliefs of CoS. In fair warning, since it is from the Christian Research Institue the perspective is more of a comparison to orthodox Christian doctrine, but there is plenty in there about what is publicly available regarding the phiolosphies and teachings of CoS.

Seems a pretty solid overview, even if it does look at it in comparison to Christianity rather than on its own. But that's the author's prerogative, and doesn't make it any less accurate.

Damn, never knew you were that Julf. I was following along with the various Co$ dabacles on the net 10 years ago. And now here we are again. Funny thing is that I had just been talking about this very subject (and Co$ legal actions) with my girlfriend a few nights ago.

My stance: It's a for-profit corporation and should be treated as such. That means no special tax status or other breaks.

I think I'd resort to murder after getting bilked by Co$ before I'd attempt suicide. But that's just me. For now I'll make my silent protests by continuing to download, as opposed to donating to the box-office, movies from Co$ supporters/members. Woohoo, that means I'm good to go for Batman.

Bruno

Unless someone has been living under a rock (for a very long time), they've known Travolta, his wife kelly Preston and Tom Cruise were/are $cientologists. I'm thinking most people (who know anything at all about these actors) would have known for 10 years at the very least. Joe Sixpack more than anyone would know. Certainly before the typical cybergeek, as Mrs. Sixpack reads The Sun, The Globe, People, Us and all the other rags that have likely mentioned this in the past. What they may not have known (what I didn't know until recently) was that Nicole Kidman never joined the the Co$ while with Cruise.

Come on, there were even protests in Germany and Greece surrounding Cruise movie premieres back in the day because of Co$. Does Germany still not recognise Co$ as a religion? If so, good for them!

I'm not hearing as much about Co$ right now as I remember hearing during the early 90's.

Bruno


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Wow.. reading through those documents brought to mind another litiguous entity with darned similar tactics.. the BSA.

Blah.

Heh. I saw "BSA" and assumed "Boy Scouts of America".

BTW, your link is screwed up.

Just ran across this article which claims that, at them moment anyway, the Cruise Holmes thing is working in favor of CoS.

I don't know why, but the statement in the article of " . . . this incident started with a galactic shake-up 75 million years ago, when an alien ruler sent billions of subjects to this planet to solve an overpopulation problem. These "thetan" souls dispersed and invaded humans." makes me think of Douglas Adams. I wonder if among these aliens were telephone sanitizers?

Edited to add the Golgafrincham link

Amusingly, a Google News search on cruise scientology turns up some 1400 articles. Still, no matter how much positive press there is, Cruise is doing a great job of making a fool out of himself.

Maybe he is going crazy.

Oh, that's brilliant.

Entertaining reading: a transcript of Cruise on the Today Show. Looks like Tom nearly blew a gasket when talking about psychoactive medication. Too bad he didn't electrocute the host...