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Scientology’s FAQ: How does Scientology view anti-religious groups and deprogrammers?

Q How does Scientology view anti-religious groups and deprogrammers?1

A So-called “deprogrammers” are money-motivated criminals who kidnap and harass for profit. Their methods include imprisonment, food and sleep deprivation and various forms of personal assault, including assault and battery and even rape. Deprogrammers in many countries have been jailed for their involvement in such violent and illegal practices. Such activities are against virtually every principle held by Scientologists.

Where families express concern over another family member’s religious beliefs or practices, the situation can generally be handled with communication. Kidnapping and violence do not resolve upsets. They destroy families.

The Church does not condone the use of violence in any form and holds that each person has an inalienable right to their own beliefs as well as their personal freedom.

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  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: How does Scientology view anti-religious groups and deprogrammers? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page38.htm ↩

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Scientology’s FAQ: What has been the Church’s role in protecting free speech and intellectual property rights on the Internet?

Q What has been the Church’s role in protecting free speech and intellectual property rights on the Internet?1

A The Church has emerged as an experienced, recognized voice in the debate surrounding the survival of both free speech and intellectual property rights in cyberspace.

The Internet offers a wealth of readily accessible knowledge but as with any new frontier, the acts of a lawless few can jeopardize the promise of progress and compromise the rights and freedoms of the responsible, law-abiding majority. The Internet can be abused as easily as it can be employed for good. Finding “free speech” a convenient cloak to disguise their aberrational conduct, denizens of the darker corners of cyberspace espouse perversion, exploit children through molestation and pornography, commit fraud and other forms of commercial crime, invade zones of personal privacy and infringe the intellectual property rights of artists, musicians and thinkers.

The Church of Scientology has stepped into the breach in defense of the free exchange of ideas and in the name of respect for the rights of everyone and has emerged as an experienced voice in the debate surrounding the survival of free speech and intellectual property rights in cyberspace. For example, as a result of a watershed case involving the potential liability of Internet access providers, the Church pioneered a protocol to enable them to respond quickly to Internet abuses without interfering with the privacy or free speech interests of the vast and lawful majority of Internet users. Likewise, in court decisions in Europe and United States, procedures were developed by the Church to reveal the identities of individuals responsible for transmitting unlawful material such as child pornography and counterfeit copies of intellectual property, without unnecessarily intruding into the privacy of others. The Church’s experiences and accomplishments in this regard have been guideposts for legislators in many countries who are attempting to fashion laws and regulations affecting the Internet.

When reason and law have gone unheeded, the Church has taken legal action to protect Scientology intellectual properties from unauthorized copying and distribution resulting in landmark legal precedents which secure and preserve the freedoms and legal rights of all who travel the information superhighway.

The result of the Church’s dedication has been to the benefit of both freedom and the Internet itself.

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  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: What has been the Church’s role in protecting free speech and intellectual property rights on the Internet? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page34b.htm ↩

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Scientology’s FAQ: Why has Scientology been to court a lot of times?

Q Why has Scientology been to court a lot of times?1

A The Church has gone to court in many countries to uphold the right to freedom of religion. In Australia, as one example, legal actions by the Church brought about a landmark victory which greatly expanded religious freedom throughout that country.

In the United States, the Church’s use of the Freedom of Information Act, taking government agencies to court and holding them accountable to release vital documents to the public on a variety of subjects, has been heralded as a vital action to ensure honesty in government.

In certain cases, the Church has used the courts to protect its copyrighted materials, or to ensure its rights and the rights of its members are safeguarded.

During the history of the Church, a few unscrupulous individuals, lusting for money, have observed how Scientology is prospering and rapidly expanding, and unsuccessfully have abused the legal system in an attempt to line their own pockets.

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  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: Why has Scientology been to court a lot of times? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page33a.htm ↩

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Scientology’s FAQ: Why has the German government tried to portray Scientology as controversial?

Q Why has the German government tried to portray Scientology as controversial?1

A Germany and, indeed, much of Central Europe, has a long and bitter history of religious intolerance and persecution, a trend which has continued into the present. Many religious and ethnic minorities have become the targets of escalating incidents of violence, xenophobia and religious discrimination.

Unfortunately, many government officials in Germany continue to fuel the intolerance. The Kohl government left a dismal legacy as far as human and civil rights are concerned. Muslims, Charismatic Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hindus, Scientologists and in some cases even Jews are among those who have been denied fundamental rights because of their race or religion. In recent years, the German government has been strongly criticized in more than 25 reports from international human rights bodies including the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Helsinki Commission, the United States State Department, and a British Ad-Hoc Human Rights Committee composed of Lords and scholars.

In 1997, a study by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex, England, found that, “In Germany, democracy is used as an ideology to impose conformity. It has been dismaying to discover that the state, and some of its politicians and people, are using what are known from the past to be well-worn paths of discrimination and intolerance.” The U.S. State Reporter has criticized the German government for the “clearly discriminatory practice” of “prevent[ing] a person from practicing his or her profession of participating in public or private fora solely based on that person’s religion or belief.”

Germany is generally regarded as the birthplace of institutional psychiatry which spawned the theory of eugenics, created the first death camps and instigated the wholesale slaughter of millions. As in the United States in the early 1950s, the Church of Scientology traced the source of false reports and government attacks in Germany to psychiatric vested interests seeking to protect a multibillion dollar mental health monopoly. Operating without popular support but with taxpayer funds, psychiatric special interests regard as a threat any religion that provides man with genuine freedom without the use of mind altering drugs or similar unscientific “therapies.”

Unfortunately, some priests from the predominant Catholic and Lutheran churches in Germany have encouraged government persecution of Scientology and other new religions. Although supported through parishioner-paid government “church taxes,” the membership of these churches has been declining dramatically and so have their revenues. Rather than looking within their own organizations to find and cure the causes of declining membership, they have wrongly blamed Scientology, which continues to grow.

Fortunately, those who are upset by seeing man improve are small in number compared to the many who have followed Scientology’s invitation to “think for yourselves” and who consequently, have embraced Scientology and its efforts to create a harmonious and peaceful civilization and more freedom for the individual.

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  1.  Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: Why has the German government tried to portray Scientology as controversial? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page30a.htm ↩

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Scientology’s FAQ: What does “suppressive person” mean?

What does “suppressive person” mean?1

A suppressive person is a person who seeks to suppress any betterment activity or group. The suppressive person, also called an antisocial personality, works to upset, continuously undermine, spread bad news and denigrate other people and their activities. While it has sometimes been said that a suppressive person is just anti-Scientology, the fact is they oppose anyone doing better in life. Such people are not always easy to identify; however, they can be known by specific characteristics:

1. He or she speaks only in very broad generalities. “They say…” “Everybody thinks…” “Everyone knows…”

2. Such a person deals mainly in bad news, critical or hostile remarks, invalidation and general suppression.

3. The antisocial personality alters, to worsen, communication when he or she relays a message or news.

4. A characteristic, and one of the sad things about an antisocial personality, is that it does not respond to treatment or reform.

5. Surrounding such a personality we find cowed or ill associates or friends who, when not driven actually insane, are yet behaving in a crippled manner in life, failing, not succeeding.

6. The antisocial personality habitually selects the wrong target. If A is the obvious cause, the antisocial personality inevitably blames B or C or D.

7. The antisocial cannot finish a cycle of action. The antisocial becomes surrounded with incomplete projects.

8. Many antisocial persons will freely confess to the most alarming crimes when forced to do so, but will have no faintest sense of responsibility for them.

9. The antisocial personality supports only destructive groups and rages against and attacks any constructive or betterment group.

10. This type of personality approves only of destructive actions and fights against constructive or helpful actions or activities.

11. Helping others is an activity which drives the antisocial personality nearly berserk. Activities, however, which destroy in the name of help are closely supported.

12. The antisocial personality has a bad sense of property and conceives that the idea that anyone owns anything is a pretense, made up to fool people. Nothing is every really owned.

Fortunately, such individuals are a very small percentage of the population. But because society as a whole has not had any means to identify them, the amount of havoc wreaked by the anti-social personality throughout the centuries is incalculable.

Virtually all the turmoil and conflict in an individual’s life can be traced to contact with such personalities. Individual men and women can usually sort out their differences through communication if they are not adversely influenced, often unknowingly, by an antisocial personality attempting to inflame, instead of resolve, conflicts.

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  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: What does “suppressive person” mean? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page39.htm ↩

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Scientology’s FAQ: Why do some people oppose Scientology?

Scientology has at least two answers for this question.

Q Why do some people oppose Scientology?

A There are certain characteristics and mental attitudes that cause a percentage of the population to oppose violently any betterment activity or group. This small percentage of the society (roughly 2 percent) cannot tolerate that Scientology is successful at improving conditions around the world. This same 2 percent is opposed to any effective self-betterment activity. The reason they so rabidly oppose Scientology is because it is doing more to help society than any other group. Those who are upset by seeing man get better are small in number compared to the millions who have embraced Scientology and its efforts to create a sane civilization and more freedom for the individual.1

Q Why do some people oppose Scientology?

A In the first place, very few do. Of course, as noted earlier, there are those in psychiatry who have long opposed spiritual betterment of any kind, but particularly that offered by Dianetics and Scientology. Then too, behind much opposition to Scientology one will invariably find the covert work of anti-religious hate groups which feed off a false hysteria they themselves create.However, as the Church has been obliged to publicly expose, those assembled in these groups have been involved in brutal deprogrammings in exchange for thousands of dollars paid to them by gullible relatives of the victims. A large number of them have been caught in the act and gone to jail.

Interestingly, when those who are attacking Scientology lose media support and coverage, their actual numbers turn out to be a very small handful. When these same individuals are no longer connected to anti-religious deprogrammers, their actual upsets are found to be quite insignificant and are readily handled through communication.2

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  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: Why do some people oppose Scientology? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page29.htm. ↩
  2. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: Why do some people oppose Scientology? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page38a.htm ↩