My hatred is for evil. L. Ron Hubbard’s technology (”Tech”) is evil - it was borne in evil, it’s purpose is evil, its practice is evil.
Scientology consists primarily of Hubbards Tech. Unless you can thoroughly denounce this, you are furthering evil.
Yes, you CAN throw this baby out with the bathwater.
There is nothing useful that can be gained from Scientology tech that that is not available from non-evil sources elsewhere. Dump the whole Tech lot. The more you tout any “value” in Hubbard’s tech, the more you support Scientology.
Dump it all, denounce it all, walk away from it ALL.
And, please, do not advertise yourself as the get out of Scientology expert on FR while you still believe there is some good in it.
I do have a standing open offer to answer any FReeper's questions about Scientology, either in open forum, or via FReepmail.
True, some of the questions are about getting out of scn, or getting a loved one out, true, I will give the best advice I can to help them, but that is not the end-all and be-all of that thread.
The purpose of that thread is to aid people in knowing about scientology, with the hope that with sufficient knowledge they will avoid it.
If I lie about the few good parts, it would destroy my credibility, as any idiot can see there are some benefits (every trap needs bait!).
It would be the equivalent of trying to convince a mouse that cheese is bad. It violates the mouse's own experience, he knows cheese is good, and anyone saying cheese is bad is probably lying about the trap, too.
It is my experience that one of the things that sticks people to scientology is mystery, the fear that if the leave they will never know what is on the upper levels. I provide information to people who 'gots to know'. </Dirty Harry reference> When it clicks they can (and almost always do) leave.
You see, I have actual success in bailing out scientologists.
How many people have you succeeded in getting anyone out of scientology? With your honest, warm, fuzzy and empathetic approach you must have freed thousands by now.
If it's all the same to you, I'll stick with something that works, even if you can't fathom why or how.