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How Does Scientology Measure Up?
(Part I of II)

In asking whether or not the religion of Scientology measures up, we have to choose a good measuring stick. We have to decide upon a good source of comparison with which to appropriately judge Scientology.

So, we'll use the same moral standard we use to compare everything else in life:

That's right. Kirk. Cameron.


(Actual advertising material for the movie Left Behind III)

This week, we attempt to answer the eternal and difficult question: Is Scientology as legitimate as Kirk Cameron and his wacky band of friends?

Premise of Each

Kirk's Premise:

We've already gone over many premises of Kirk's faith, like the fact that his God will punish you eternally if you were constructed to feel emotions or motivations. So let's cover more about his Witnessing and Evangelical premises. According to Kirk's website's blog, Left Behind III: The Disco Version, Kirk explains that in his latest Evangelical movie:
Once again, I'm playing "Buck" and my wife Chelsea plays "Hattie". This time, the Trib Force is doing all they can to slow down the plans of the Nicholae Carpathia to annihilate Christians from the planet (by secretly infecting the majority of Bibles with a highly toxic biological agent like Anthrax and allowing the Trib Force to distribute them to new converts) and bring in his new, one-world government and religion. This movie has the famous double wedding scene between Buck and Chloe and Rayford and Amanda. Hattie is pregnant with the antichrist's child and Bruce Barns goes home to be with the Lord.


I love the fact that in the future, an organization called the "Trib Force" exists. On top of that, the mother of the antichrist is named "Hattie."
Scientology's Premise:

Seventy-five million years ago, earth was called Teegeeack and was part of the Galactic Confederacy, ruled by the evil leader Xenu. Citizens of the Galactic Confederacy millions of years ago looked, dressed, and drove cars and intergalactic DC-8 airplanes just like 1950's and 1960's earthlings did.

Xenu used psychiatrists to drug up billions of overpopulating citizens with booze, loaded them up on copies of Douglas DC-8s, and flew them to Teegeeack/earth, now a prison planet. There, Xenu unloaded the citizens around Teegeeack/earth's volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls were blown into the sky, where Xenu's ships caught them with electric soul nets.

These souls were then forced to watch movies for the next 36 days to brainwash them into believing Roman Catholicism and the crucifixion, and into forgetting their identities.

It turns out that some of the citizens survived getting blown up by the hydrogen bombs and volcanoes, and the disembodied souls found these citizens and attached themselves to them. The citizens are our ancestors, and the attached souls are still with us after all these generations, causing us to get sick and feel ambiguous about things. When Scientologists help remove these lost souls from you, you can become immortal and able to withstand other hydrogen bomb explosions and volcanoes.

Meanwhile, the "Loyal Officers" in the Galactic Confederacy overthrew Xenu and locked him in a mountain with a forcefield.
The Edge Goes To: Scientology. Their movie about Christianity sounds more convincing.

Proof of Each

Kirk's Proof:

According to Kirk blog entry, "Could I be Wrong?" Kirk explains why you should believe the premises to his version of God and of the Bible, and if he could be wrong about both. He said, "I could also be wrong about my wife's love for me. The last 13 years of marriage could have been a hoax." Well, that's good I suppose.

He continues to explain that because his wife has been so good to him, that proves that he's not wrong about her. That's his metaphor for why he's not wrong about his God. The fact that you can feel how good he is to you, proves he loves you. Well, since we know everyone on earth feels they have a wonderful life all the time, that should be proof enough for all humans to believe that Kirk Cameron's God is the right one. Huh?
Scientology's Proof:

L Ron Hubbard came up with the tale of Lord Xenu after a steady diet of booze and drugs in North Africa, writing to his wife saying that large amounts of rum and pills were helping his research into the matter. That's dedication to the truth.
The Edge Goes To: Scientology, for at least leaving room for some doubt that enlightenment could've entered the equation somewhere.

Click here to go to Part II of the feature!





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