I wrote a research paper on scientology a few years ago( i got a good score on the paper, just not the grammer or the formalitys. ). It’s a great example of how to run a business for short term gains and control. Another example of selling towards wants instead of offering scientific solutions to needs with the ability to voluntarily participate in and move out of with full discloser.
since i thought it would be fun to bring up one of what i wrote and look it over again ill just put some of the stuff here.
The Victoria parliament agreed with the reports that Scientology was the "world's largest organization of unqualified persons engaged in the practice of dangerous techniques which masquerade as mental therapy”.
Scientology founder Lafayette Ron Hubbard has faced great controversy over the validly of his motives and actions. California Judge Paul G. Breckenridge observed, "The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power" (Church of Scientology of California v. Gerald Armstrong, Case No. C420143).
. In an interview with L Ron Hubbard’s son in Penthouse magazine, his son recalled him as a “hard-drinking, drug-abusing father who would mistreat his mother and other women, but who, when under the influence, would delight in telling his son all of his exploits.” (
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scien ... en240.html)
On April 10, 1953, Hubbard wrote: "We don't want a clinic. We want one in operation but not in name. Perhaps we could call it a Spiritual Guidance Center. Think up its name, will you...It is a problem of practical business. I await your reaction on the religion angle... A religion charter could be necessary in Pennsylvania on NJ to make it stick. But I sure could make it stick" (
http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/mjr/beit.html).
Scientology also has used deceptive professional titles to add a semblance of authority. One Scientologist admitted that her B.A. stood for Basic Administrator" and "Book Auditor.” Scientology uses what it calls a ‘personality test’ as a hook. The Australian Inquiry reported that one boy who took the test was told he was mentally unstable, had a defective character, and would have a mental breakdown unless he joined Scientology.
The Anderson Report commented on the auditing sessions as follows:
“During this, the preclear is very frequently experiencing mental torture, which shows itself in contorted and flushed features, tears, moaning, inability to speak, apparent deafness, nausea, dizziness, and sensations of pain, coma, and unconsciousness.” The report also says that “Sometimes preclears are so distraught that they scream, develop murderous feelings, have bouts of anger, grief and morbid feelings and thoughts; their sexual passions are aroused, they act insanely, laugh hysterically and engage in other hysterical behavior; they become violent and try to escape and have to be restrained.” (Anderson p. 170)
The name Scientology is trademarked by the Religious Technology Center and Scientology products and names are licensed to the Church for a fee. A trademark is legally defined as "any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof, adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify its goods and distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others" (15 U.S.C. , article 1121). People are being sued merely for talking about Scientology even when no commerce is involved. Scientology spends a great deal of money on lawyers and private investigators and has even framed crimes on ex-Scientologists
One Scientology website describes Scientology as a religion in the deepest and most traditional sense, claiming that “…it is concerned with no less than the full rehabilitation of man’s innate spiritual self - his capabilities, his awareness, and his certainty of his own immortality - and his relationship to the divine.” (
http://www.scientologyreligion.org/pg006.html) One must consider that the original goal of Scientology was not to create a religion per se, but that religious criteria was added after Hubbard was having trouble with the science of Scientology. It is also easy to add religious aspects by simply comparing and then adding each step as follows so the policies match that of previous religions
The secular Cult Awareness Network includes Scientology as an authentic religion. (
http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/dba ... sites.html). This would hold advantage if not for CAN being owned by the Foundation for Religious Freedom -- and therefore owned by Scientology. In a 1999 article it was stated that “the CAN service mark and logo were sold to a Scientology attorney for $20,000 several years ago.” (
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c19.html)
. In the Anderson Report, Scientology also stated "We don't claim to cure, curing is not our concern. Of course, if you look at our record, look at the miraculous cures we have effected, look what dianetics, which is a branch of Scientology, can do and has done, you will see that Scientology does cure; but we don't claim to cure.” (Anderson p.162) This kind of statement gives leeway to anything and it contradicts what has been testified about the recruitment process of Scientology.
Scientology also has declined to treat people who are insane, meaning it does not have an open door policy to everyone potentially interested. L Ron Hubbard says that the psychiatrist thinks of his patients as a "piece of meat,” yet he called newcomers to Scientology "raw meat.” It also seems ironic that there is such opposition to psychiatric drugs, given that
“L Ron Hubbard was given Vistaril® by Dr. Gene Denk in his final days, by intramuscular injection in the right buttocks. Vistaril® is a psychiatric drug, used to calm frantic or overly anxious patients.” (
http://www.xenu.net/archive/hubbardcoroner/).
now it would save space to just put the paper online and link it but as one can read it's not the best paper.
How cruel is that? Its inhumane.
They are simply doing what some guys in society do, but are excusing it by using religion.
if that's what they call fair I'd rather stick with unfair beliefs 
