Scientology can drive you crazy

Tonight on the old telly:
Scientology And Me, Panorama, Monday May 14th, 8.30pm GMT, BBC1.

The battleground is YouTube and Scientology's weapon is a clip of BBC's John Sweeney losing it in the "Mind Control" section of a gruesome exhibition.

Scientology has fought many battles to keep its secrets off the web, now they are using it to attack Panorama's investigation into them.

Scientology has prepared an attack video, and they have shown the Scientology v Sweeney shouting match to anyone who would watch it.

"If you are interested in becoming a TV journalist, it is a fine example of how not to do it. I look like an exploding tomato and shout like a jet engine ... it makes me cringe" [J. Sweeney]

Scientology is a pay-as-you-go religion - which is one of the reasons why the Charity Commission in Britain does not class it as a religion.

When you have paid as much as £100,000 [approx €150,000 or $200,000] , you get to Operating Thetan Level Three and learn about "The Incident".

L Ron wrote that 75 million years ago an intergalactic space alien lord called Xenu kidnapped Thetans to earth, dumped them in volcanoes and blew them up with atomic bombs.

Ex-Scientologists have insisted to me that Xenu is part of Scientology. If so, it is a religion that requires its followers not to tell others about its core belief, which is very odd.

Scientology And Me, Panorama, Monday May 14th, 8.30pm GMT, BBC1.

[text partially by John Sweeney]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6650545.stm

http://www.scientology.org/

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