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Xenu - "In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs." It's not a joke. They actually believe this.

The South Park episode "Trapped in the Closet" explains what Scientology believes.
Screenshot shows the space ruler Xenu.
Click to play episode.
See also Comedy Central site.

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Google "Scientology" to see, as with Islam, how much trouble the cult is having with the unstoppable free speech of the Internet. Anti-Scientology sites, and sites publishing Scientology secrets, are all over the top search results.

Scientology's secret teachings

What makes the cult special is that its teachings are secret. You have to pass through various stages and pay large amounts of money before you can read them, and it protects these secrets using all the legal machinery at its disposal.

The "secrets" are nonsense of course, and all this is a device to protect them from analysis and criticism. Unfortunately for the cult, you can now save your money and read its teachings at sites all over the world.

Operation Clambake (the site xenu.net)
See also here or here.
The basic summary of their world view is in OT 3.
The Fishman Affidavit (and here)
- OT 3
Scientology beliefs and practices
Scientology and the Internet
- The cult has for years been fighting against free speech on the Internet. Since the 1990s it has been furious with the Internet for spreading its secret teachings.
- SCIENTOLOGY v. the INTERNET, Skeptic vol. 3, no. 3, 1995.
- The cult installs censorware for all its members. This has been cracked. Here is the List of words and sites members cannot see.
Scientology has been fighting the Internet since the 1990s. But it can't prevent its secrets being released.
Of course, Christianity was once like this. It once tried to prevent people reading its teachings.

Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis is asked about the cult's secret teachings by Martin Bashir in Oct 2009.
Davis gets furious and storms out.
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Scientology is stupid (the John Dixon affair, July 2010)

Scientology is, of course, deeply stupid. And everyone must be free to say so.

John Dixon is a Liberal Democrat councillor in Wales who has a Twitter feed at CllrJohnDixon.
- He caused controversy when he Tweeted on 9 May 2009 on a visit to London: "didn't know there was a Scientology 'church' on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case the stupid rubs off."
- In July 2010 it was announced that he was being investigated for breaching the code of conduct for local authority members which demands they "show respect and consideration for others".
- Harry's Place points out that actual judges in court have described Scientology as "based on lies and deceit", and even "pernicious nonsense".
- Terence Eden may have a point though that Dixon should not say such things on his official Twitter feed. (I do not discuss religion and politics at all on my professional site.)
- Dixon has now set up a separate feed, JohnLDixon, for personal opinions. (To be precise, he apparently renamed his old feed from CllrJohnDixon to JohnLDixon, and then set up a new CllrJohnDixon feed.)
- But the incident still leaves a disturbing feeling that the state thinks there is something wrong with calling Scientology "stupid".

From here.

Other

Skeptic's Dictionary
Scientology in popular culture
South Park (and online)
The book A Piece of Blue Sky (also here) (1990) is banned in the UK.
- In fact, the entire book is online here and here.
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, TIME magazine, 1991.
The Profit (2001), a film that is banned in the US! See here.
The movie The Master (2012).
Anonymous
Project Chanology (see here)
Ireland
- Anonymous Ireland
- The book The Complex by John Duignan is under legal threat.

A 15 year old boy was cautioned by UK police for carrying this sign in public in May 2008.
Click image to read the forbidden secrets of the cult at xenu.net.

Timeline of Scientology's "history" of the universe.
By Annalee Newitz. Illustration by Stephanie Fox.

What Scientology believes.

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