The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82561   Message #1514555
Posted By: Alice
03-Jul-05 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Petition To Boycott Tom Cruise
Subject: RE: BS: Petition To Boycott Tom Cruise
SRS wrote:
Does Cruise's lack of understanding of the issues involving depression and drugs that treat it have ANYTHING to do with Scientology, any more
than it has to do with Christianity? Or Judaism or Hinduism? I don't think so. I think the man just isn't as informed on this issue as he could be, regardless of his religion.
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SRS, he is not just ill-informed, he is promoting the agenda of CoS, which the group grooms all of its celebrities to do. Hubbard started CoS when he was

Nothing I have posted here is "rumor". It is well-researched fact. Whether it is CoS or any other group out to vicitimize and recruit the vulnerable, I believe people should have information so they can be fully informed to make their own decisions. FULLY INFORMED OF FACTS... that is my point.

CoS was not a religion when Hubbard started it. As Dianetics, it was a pseudoscientific practice that made untrue claims about mental health. He started the Church of Scientology because Hubbard was getting into trouble for making claims he could not substantiate. By creating a church he protected himself. That way, anyone who criticized it could be written off as a "bigot".