Scientology

the grocery store checkout and overhear a fellow shopper complain about celebrities and their New Age religions as they peruse the headlines of People or US Weekly. While it is easy for them to judge Tom Cruise and his dedication to the Church of Scientology, or harrumph Madonna and the red string that adorns her wrist as she walks into The Kabbalah Centre, some of the people passing judgment may be overlooking a religion that hits a little closer to home for many Americans, Christianity. While…

Reviewing Nathaniel Rich’s book titled "The Man Who Saves You From Yourself" Cults do exist, but no one ever admits to joining such a group or affiliation. One only joins a nonprofit organization that promotes animal rights, green technology, or transcendental meditation, as they would admit. However, regardless of how much these members of a cult deny it, cults do exist. In fact, cult groups live among unsuspecting members of their society and continue to carry out their cult activities and…

Greece Geography: About four-fifths of Greece is mountain which incorporate most of the islands around Greece. Mountain Olympus is one of the highest peak and was the legendary home of the ancient Gods. The four observable geographical regions that Greece has is Pindus, Epirus, Thessaly, and Thrace. Pindus divide Northern Greece into damp mountains while Epirus is in the West and sunny, dry plains and lesser mountain ranges. The Eastern region which is Thessaly is mainly all plains, and Thrace…

Entering the humanities Assignment 2. 1. What answers do these five websites provide to the main question whether or not Cyrus was the founding father of human rights? The main question is if Cyrus the Great was the founding father of the human rights, but the answer is not so clear as many have rejected this view and specific of the cylinder as the declaration of the human rights. The Wikipedia has a different view on this subject, it gives us mostly general information about the…

Cults can range from a few members to hundreds of members in the group. If there are more people, this could mean more power. Such as in the cult group Scientology. They have been known to brainwash people, conduct in acts of fraud, and have had attempts at financial ruin. Many groups will also claim that suicide will bring them to the other side. As stated in the article “10 of the Most Dangerous Cults”,…

based on social class, power, ethnicity and gender. The social groups formed from these concepts would tend to have the same beliefs and most likely the same religious beliefs or that these social groups tend to have the same religious beliefs. Scientology for instance, tends to have more wealthy Caucasian followers. The social diversity of religions tend to be based on these other concepts of political views, social class, power, ethnicity and gender. According to some statistics Christianity…

Personal values here refers to the core values as a human being which are honesty, human worth and dignity, responsibility, patriotism, honesty, respect, loyalty, tolerate and etc. Quoting Ron Hubbard from the Scientology Principles, according to him the definition of personal integrity is “knowing what you know. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed. And that is integrity and there is no other integrity”. However…

and since this was the time many religions were being brought about they might have been worshipped. After different religions sprung up, they changed over time to what it is like today. Even some that have been appearing in the present like in Scientology where they worship their god, an alien named Xenu, which came to earth and did all of the life creating. But when did the aliens actually come? When these supposed ancient aliens arrived it must have been really early in the earth’s timeline…

society attracted many different religious activists around the world. In Russia you can find Swiss Protestants, Roman Catholic missionaries, German Lutherans, many catholic orders, Catholics, Christians, the unification church and the church of scientology. Nearly half the Russian population is Russian orthodoxy, 6.5% is Islam, and the rest is a mix of the listed religions above. The word Orthodox means “right belief” or “right phrase” and the Orthodox church is also known as the “eastern…

The Philosophy about the Four Idols 1. What are the 4 idols? (Do not just name them. Explain them.) There are four classes of idols which are named Idols of the Tribe, Idols of the Cave, Idols of the Market Place, and the Idols of the Theater. These idols give evidence as to how the human mentality, posture, and lives works. For example; the Idols of the Tribe determines that sometimes the human being tends to follow the dictates from false prophets. The main reason for this is because we have…