I must say that I am really impressed with Scientology.org commercials. After seeing one commercial I made a tweet asking if anyone else have seen the commercials. To my surprise I was not the only one. Many more people are tweeting about the same thing. After researching a little more (F.Y.I. Googling information about Scientology Commercial Ads I've found the Scientology YouTube channel. Apparently the Church of Scientology is responding to people questions via YouTube comments. It seems very transparent to me. Similar to the Obama online campaigns.

I am neither for nor against Scientology, in my opinion everyone has a right to practice their own religious and spiritual belief in America.

I am going to ask the Church of Scientology a few questions today via their YouTube channel, I will let you know how it turns out. But you can always go to the YouTube site yourself and ask your own questions. Here is the link - <link>

Additional Google finds: (Source: Scientology Today)

- The Church’s property holdings internationally have more than doubled in the last 5 years. The combined size of Church premises increased from 5.6 million square feet in 2004 to 11 million square feet in 2009.

- The Church has acquired 66 buildings since 2004 in major population centers around the world. For example: Berlin, New York, Greater Los Angeles area.




- The Church has completed 401,003 square feet of construction of new premises in the last 5 months. It currently has under construction another 475,887 square feet, including Churches in Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Quebec, Mexico City, Brussels, Rome and Tel Aviv.

- There are 8,071 Scientology Churches, Missions and groups in 165 nations, double the number five years ago.

- 80 million L. Ron Hubbard books and lectures on Dianetics and Scientology have been sold in the last decade, compared to 5.6 million in the prior decade, and 60 of that 80 million have been sold in the last two years-more than during the first 50 years of Dianetics and Scientology combined.

- The number of individuals completing auditing and training has doubled since 2007.

- Since the Church undertook to publish and reproduce its scriptural materials in-house in 2007, the average price of Mr. Hubbard’s books and lectures sold has decreased dramatically.

- There were 12.4 million visitors to the Scientology website in the last year alone coming from 234 countries, with 23 million video views.

- 4.5 million pages of L. Ron Hubbard’s writings have been translated in the last 10 years alone compared to a total of 359,459 for the prior 50 years, making him the most translated author in history-according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

- Today there are 196,000 Scientology Volunteer Ministers worldwide-there were 45,000 in 2004. Volunteer Ministers helped over 1.4 million people in the last year alone, a 300% increase over the 2004 figure of 550,000 people helped.

"I am neither for nor against Scientology"

Jason, lying doesn't help the churches image much.

"I am neither for nor against Scientology" - Really?

...and it should be "church's image". That doesn't help me come off as a grammatical genius.


Also, anyone else notice the T in Scientology at the end of the advertisement (around the 46 second mark) shines and resembles a crucifix? Based on the editing of the rest of the ad, I question whether this is a coincidence...

Jason, that's a whole bunch of propaganda you've cited there...you must be on the payroll....

For a very revealing look in to the underbelly of this dangerous cult check out The Truth Rundown.

It is a series of very informative articles and interviews that detail some of the insane and dangerous events that have occurred at the highest levels of Scientology over the years.  You will also see former high level church executives put the lie to the garbage poseted above about how Scientology is growing.  As more and more poeple learn about the cult it is kosing the chance to catch people uninformed about its practices.  Education is the silver bullet and Scientology has no answer for it.

As one of the thousands of ex-Scientologists around the world I just want to encourage everyone to assume the worst about Scientology, but to show some pity for the unfortunate people still caught in its web.  Miscaviege is a lunatic dictator, and he is ruining many lives every day.  There is still work to be done, but every day brings us one step closer to the end for this evil cult.

"Jason",

I must say your first (and ONLY) post, is a perfect example of the kind of lying the rest of the world is used to when it comes to Scientology.

It is amazing that a science fiction writer could create such an evil religion because of a bar bet (Heinlein's book was "Stranger in a Strange Land").

Scientology comes across as extremely evil to me-- and I am a person who disdains religion generally so scientology had to work hard to stand out.

And on top of that, scientology's basic beliefs are also pretty darn goofy-- perhaps more so than the mormon's goofy beliefs.

This is a helpful site...

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Notably:

Membership

Scientology does not have 8 million members; it is not the fastest growing religion in the world. It is, in fact, shrinking - involvement peaked in the 80s and hasn't recovered.

I'd ask you what you really believed in... but apparently that is offensive...

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However, from the same page, Hubbard's words relate that, "Xenu is supposed to be an evil galactic overlord who, 75 million years ago, tried to execute billions of people by putting them in Earth’s volcanos and using atomic bombs to blow them all up. The souls (called "thetans") remained, however, and thousands inhabit our brains (now they get called "body thetans")."

Here, you share a basic problem with other religions- the physical record doesn't match your beliefs. Solid genetic and geological facts are in dispute with those beliefs. They may have flown in the 50's when we knew less about geology and atomic bombs.

Since you are basically a lying lier who lies, I don't put much credence in the rest of your posts.. but to sum up your argument, it seems to be an argument that you are correct via popularity.

"Lots of people like us, so you should too!"

Pass.

maxo:

to sum up your argument, it seems to be an argument that you are correct via popularity.

"Lots of people like us, so you should too!"

Yes, I mean, there are way more Buddhists than Scientologists, so they must be righter than them, right?

You just compared scientology's crap to the Obama campaign?

Man, that annoys me.

Jason,

please "shill out"...

"I must say that I am really impressed with Scientology.org commercials."

Me too, if I am honest.

Looks a little like crucifix. Had to believe that this is accidental. But scientology cross seems to be different (scientology.org top, left side).

Stranger in a Strange Land was a MUCH better book than Battlefield Earth!

A collection of random papers would be a better book than "Battlefield Earth"...(and, yes, I actually read it)