Hope he has hired extra boy guards and lawyers to defend him.
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_scientologist.html/
Greta Van Sustern is a scientologist. That surprised me.
“....who prefer to think themselves as “Thetans”....”
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Why the lisp? Is it not pronounced “satans”?
Years ago my sister took me to see a group of them, who wanted to “evaluate” us. First thing they did was split us up. After giving me a little test, they starting telling me what I needed to do to improve my life and how they could do it for me.
Alarm bells were going off in my head, so I declined their “assistance”. They got downright scary. They didn’t make physical threats, but they were very intimidating. I wasn’t sure they were going to allow me to leave, but they eventually did. I found my sister and got the heck out of there, never to return.
Charles Manson was tested “clear” by Scientology.
If Rupert Murdock had negative comments about the Mormon faith and Mitt Romney, then the “pro-Obama left entities” wouldn’t have any problems with that.
Scientology, Charles Manson’s Family, Jim Jones, and Anton Levey’s Church of Satan all got started in California along roughly the same time frame. Everybody search for “some other truth”. Or control.
Then there is the Scientology splinter group (still around today) The Process Church of Final Judgment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment
I recall reading that they invested in a bit of real estate in the Boston market and still draw funds off it.
The Clinton administration gave it full clearance as a legitimate (and tax exempt) religion.
Don't they claim "trade secrets" or some other copyright/trademark on their "religious" teachings like the big SF story of how man is the spawn of mixed up aliens with personality flaws that must be cleared through past life regression "auditing"?
What comes out in lawsuits is suppressed by this corporate cult as "trade secrets". If they are greater TRUTHS, there is no ownership on them. It's a wackjob shakedown racket. Hollywood knows that you join, you'll get work. It's a networking thing. Additionally, it gives some Hollywood dope addicts a new thing to focus on other than the drugs.
Scientology is no authentic “religion.” It is the product of Hubbard’s imaginings, which drew upon his experience as a science fiction writer, as well as his dabbling in psychotherapy, which led to his creation of a self-help system he called “Dianetics.”
More complicated (and darker) than that. He also had ties to Jack Parsons and his little group of Crowleyite occultists.
That should read "which drew upon his experience.as a con artist,"
As for the cross, I'm sure it is a prop for Hubbard's psychological affinity appeal.
I'm pretty sure Scientology brib..., er, made a big donation to Clinton to get their religious tax status.