Scientology's evil practice of declaring Scientologists suppressive persons and then ordering everyone in their life to disconnect from them is nothing like an excommunication.
To echo/piggy-back on the theme of your article, from Wikipedia:
In Janet Reitman's INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY she quotes Hubbard: "Never let anyone be half-minded about being Scientologists," he wrote in Keeping Scientology Working. "When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined for the duration of the universe – never permit an 'open-minded approach'."
Thankyou Yashar for all that you do to expose this organisation. I will subscribe to your Substack to support your work that you did concerning Shelly Miscavige and other Scientology articles. We are many who support you.
Interesting information. I personally consider all organized religion to be various forms of a cult, with a spectrum of fanaticism. They all profess to save a person but the ulterior motive is ALWAYS power and control and greed. Always.
They ALL are destructive and prevent Enlightenment
As an ex-Mormon, no, it's not. It's much closer to the Catholic version. I'm still very close to my family, for example, and the Church doesn't have spies running around trying to f*** up my life.
The article compared Scientology's "suppressive persons" declarations to the traditional Catholic excommunication, where a person is barred from the sacraments but not actively persecuted by the church afterwards. Amy asked if the Mormon church does the same thing as Scientology and I was telling her that no, Mormon excommunication is much closer to how the Catholic church handles it. Excommunication IS a thing in Catholicism and has been basically since your church was founded, it's just very rarely exercised these days.
Thank you for saying this out loud. I lost my daughter to this “religion” that tears families apart.
To echo/piggy-back on the theme of your article, from Wikipedia:
In Janet Reitman's INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY she quotes Hubbard: "Never let anyone be half-minded about being Scientologists," he wrote in Keeping Scientology Working. "When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined for the duration of the universe – never permit an 'open-minded approach'."
Scientology: ALWAYS WORSE THAN YOU THINK.
Thankyou Yashar for all that you do to expose this organisation. I will subscribe to your Substack to support your work that you did concerning Shelly Miscavige and other Scientology articles. We are many who support you.
Thank you so much!
Thanks, Yashar
Why is Scientology considered a *religion* in the US? In most other countries it’s considered a CULT.
Perhaps due to the title “Church of Scientology,” which allows them to declare non-profit status to avoid paying taxes.
Interesting information. I personally consider all organized religion to be various forms of a cult, with a spectrum of fanaticism. They all profess to save a person but the ulterior motive is ALWAYS power and control and greed. Always.
They ALL are destructive and prevent Enlightenment
Is the Mormon Church practice (of excommunication) similar to that of getting declared?
As an ex-Mormon, no, it's not. It's much closer to the Catholic version. I'm still very close to my family, for example, and the Church doesn't have spies running around trying to f*** up my life.
Thanks for clarifying.
what are you talking about? im italian living in italy and here everyone is catholic and there is no such thing
The article compared Scientology's "suppressive persons" declarations to the traditional Catholic excommunication, where a person is barred from the sacraments but not actively persecuted by the church afterwards. Amy asked if the Mormon church does the same thing as Scientology and I was telling her that no, Mormon excommunication is much closer to how the Catholic church handles it. Excommunication IS a thing in Catholicism and has been basically since your church was founded, it's just very rarely exercised these days.
My mom was excommunicated by the Catholic Church when she divorced my dad about 60 years ago.