Scientologists are very susceptible to conspiracy theories. It doesn’t matter much WHAT it is, many Scientologists readily buy into amu idea that there are a group of evil people determined to enslave/destroy/poison/control people. Here we have, according to Brian Gardner, “the most evil individuals of our time” (scientists?) trying to foist off the big lie… Brian is a hardcore scientologist -- you only need know he was the "PR" for SFO Org and read his last sentence to dispel any possible doubts about that. Why is this willingness to latch on to these theories so prevalent in sciento … [Read more...]
Scientologists: Republicans or Democrats? Pro-Choice or Pro-Life?
I am often asked this question, and my answer is usually that while there is no hard and fast rule, scientologists tend to lean Republican because of Hubbard's words: He opposed "big government" (pretty much ALL government -- it's "group bank") He opposed welfare -- that is "rewarding downstats." He opposed taxes. He believed homosexuality is an "aberration" He opposed government funded medical programs because "they support psychiatry." These positions pretty much ensure any good scientologist is a Republican voter. We saw in 2016 that the only precinct in LA that voted for Trump for … [Read more...]