CERTAINTY
The Official Publication of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY in the British Isles
WHY SOME FIGHT SCIENTOLOGY
[...]
Unfortunately, the person who does not want you to study
Scientology is your enemy as well as ours.
When he harangues against us to you as a "cult,
"
as a "hoax," as a very bad thing done by very bad people, he or she
is only saying, "Please, please, please don't try to find me out."
Thousands of such protesting people carefully investigated
by us have been found to have unsavory pasts and sordid motives they did
not dare (they felt) permit to come to light. The wife or mother who rails
against a family member who takes up Scientology is, we regret to have to
say, guided by very impure motives, generated in the morass of dread secrets
long withheld. The father, husband or friend who frowns upon one knowing
more about the mind is hiding something that he feels would damage him.
"You had better leave Scientology alone!"
is an instinctive defense, prompted in all cases investigated by a guilty
conscience.
Once they hear a few truths from Scientology such people
become afraid. They KNOW we know. And if we know this much and if you are further
informed, they feel you will find them out. The wife, protesting, is hiding such
things as infidelity or an unsavory circumstance, one or many. The husband,
protesting,
is hiding a past with many blots upon it.
"You must not know more of Scientology"
is best answered by no praise of Scientology but by "What have you done?
"
It is best answered by demanding that the protesting person go to the nearest
center for a "case assessment." For marriages and families founder on
the rocks of hidden transgressions. And if one's friend or family become afraid
in the face of truth, the friendship or the family will eventually go to pieces
on the fangs of hidden events.
Brought to light, such things are never as dreadful as
they were in the unconfided dark. Exposed to view, one no longer builds on
quicksand.
For how can one have a family, a marriage or a friendship
where treachery has slept?
So Scientology is dangerous.
But Scientology is also generous, tolerant and kind. And
before the breadth of its understanding and the kindness of its people, a new
world can be born for anyone, a world without war, criminality or the insane.
But also, much more personally can be born a real
friendship
where there was private fear before, a real family founded on mutual trust, a
real marriage where its partners are united against the world, not divided from
one another by hidden acts.
Beware the person or group who fights Scientology, for
that person fights truth—not the truth of natural laws, but the truth about
himself.
It's well worth knowing, we assure you.
© 1991 L. Ron Hubbard Library |