Nobody ever accused the Cult of L. Ron of PR expertise.
As we pointed out in yesterday's Studies in Crap post, the hilariously titled promotional pamphlet "Scientology: Something CAN Be Done About It" features a doozy of a photo-illustration guaranteed to offend, say, three-fourths of the world's religious believers.
It presents the great leaders of religious history, from Buddha to Christ, all lined up evolution-chart style beneath a dinner-jacketed Scientologist wielding his oversized official handbook.
The implication: All of religious history has been building to this schmo measuring your thetans.
What truly startles, though, is the inclusion of Mohammad just to the left of that bored looking bed-sheet Jesus. Yes, only the prophet's eyes and hands are visible, but that's not likely to comfort followers of the Hadith rules that strictly forbid any such depiction. Remember those Danish cartoons a couple years back?
Here's Mohammed and a friend.
When it comes to offending all faiths with garish Photoshoppery, the Scientologists hit for the cycle.
Gape at its creepy, aestheticized "photo" of the Holocaust, which manages to make concentration camp victims look like Jesus, gray aliens, and REM's "Losing My Religion" video ... but sexy!
Doesn't it look dreamy? This being the Scientologists, the pamphlet blames the Holocaust on psychiatrists. Who but L. Ron's followers could unite Jews, conservative Arabs and western atheists in outrage?
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I read the entire Dianetics book. Scientology is popular in Syracuse New York. My Scientology studies impressed the people in my community so much that they interfered with the drug pushers who had a stranglehold on me. Now I/m good.
Scilons ARE the authorities through their own demonstratable skill. If they put a Scilon at the top of the mountain, above the other religious prophets, then take pride in knowing that COS was decent enough to even talk to you.
The muslims aren't offended? I am amazed this hasn't reached the news.
Of course if they are persecuted or perceived to be persecuted by somebody maybe the public will run to defend the princess scions. Maybe that would take some focus off what evil pricks they are.
"...they must be doing something to fight the entheta...." Yeah, they are. Google "I am a Scientologist" for their latest spam attack on youtube. Their version of slick advertising. Bwahahahaha! A bunch of very attractive young (mainly) women telling you how great they are and, oops, almost forgot, "I.Am.A.Scientologist." And don't for a minute think those "public" culties are encouraged to be on the net. Their videos are handed over to management, approved by Davey, and put up on Youtube as recruitment tools 'cause they can't do it on the streets anymore what with Anonymous around. :P
"Jesus looks like he's really into Widespread Panic."
Just outright hysterical!!!
I'm suprised it took this long for people to notice this retardly disgusting add.
Some dupe with a Co$ handbook has all the answers people. Just stop critically thinking and sing up for the $ea Org!!!
Mohammad was a woman!? Oh hell no, Scientology! Allah will be skull-f*cking your midget ass very soon, David Miscavige.
My guess as to what the fatwa issuers have to say to this . . .
NYPA
For the uninitiated, that is "internet" for "Not Your Personal Army". In other words; don't try to sic groups you know little about on your enemies.
That which is one person's "Data" is another man's toilet paper. Flush the garbage down into the cosmic toilet, and come to enjoy life.
I like the booklet and you can find more data on Scientology on the official website.
I don't need to waste my time to comment on the article! If you want to know what Scientology is study Scientoloy books!
Scientology is to religion what Magic cards are to games. The only way to get anywhere is to spend buttloads of cash.
Okay, Mr Davis, I'll take your word on that.
I've never run into any handler who admits to being OSA yet though, what are the OSA handlers doing now after they got booted from wikipedia, did they leave the internet?
That sounds improbable, they must be doing something to fight the entheta.
Maybe they're just sitting around clicking on scientology.com all day to drive up the Alexa stats?
Scientology commonly claims that you can be any other religion and still be a Scientologist
Like most (if not all) other religions, Scientology will tell you whatever's necesssary to keep the pipeline from your bank account flowing.
Mom, I don't think I wanna be any of those people for Haloween. Can't I just be a pirate?
SCIENTOLOGY!!! You have insulted the most sacred prophet of MY RELIGION.
Your XENU, Tom Cruise and Bart Simpson cannot save you now.
EXPECT BILLIONS OF US.
WHAT AN INSULT!!! WHO IS THIS INFIDEL DAVID MISCAVIGE???? WHY DOES HE PRINT A PICTURE OF THE MOST HOLY ???
WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHEN YOU HEAR THE CHANTING OF ALLAH-O AKBAR (GOD IS GREATEST)IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT......KNOW THAT WE HAVE COME AND THE MOST HOLY WILL BE VINDICATED.
YOUR SPRINKLER TECH AND RAZOR BARBED WIRE FENCE WILL BE USELESS!!!!!
Scientology says that their criminally insane founder, L. Ron Hubbard, was a "humanitarian" on a level with Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Teresa:
http://meowmacao.blogspot.com/...
Here is proof that Scientology and Christianity are totally incompatible, despite Scientology's claims to the contrary:
http://meowmacao.blogspot.com/...
For more about Scientology and what it REALLY teaches, just go to http://www.WhyWeProtest.net or http://www.xenu.net ...where truth IS stranger than fiction!
"How does this dwindling 50s science fiction cult get so much attention? I live in a metropolitan area 25 miles outside of NYC and commute to Manhattan every day. I have never even met anyone who knows or met a Sceintologist.
Can someone please at least give me a hint?"
They were running the "stress test" tables you may have seen around Manhattan, often in the subway stations around Time Square area. They own big building at 46 and 7th Ave.
However, there are reports that the NYC Anon shut the stress test tables down. They sell Dianetics at the stress test tables and have e-meters, presented as biofeedback machines (which, oddly, is exactly what they are), don't say anything about Scientology to the "fresh meat."
David Miscavige,is going to get hisxenu ass kicked by the muslims or the baptists, maybe David there would cold-cock Jesus or Moses there may he'll do a swan dive on muhammed. Since $cientology thinks it is bigger and top of the religion world. What a dumb idiot Little Davey boy is. He will start up his own Super Adventure Club and dittle little boys like L.Ron with Pinks and Grey pills down his throat too
About the illustrations - no comment
About the CONTENTS of the book - fantastic! Wonderful data!
Dobbs - Could it be me that you are referring to? Has my fame spread so far? I'm honoured.
I assure you that I have no connection with OSA, I'm not staff in any way, shape or form. I'm just a happy user!
How does this dwindling 50s science fiction cult get so much attention? I live in a metropolitan area 25 miles outside of NYC and commute to Manhattan every day. I have never even met anyone who knows or met a Sceintologist.
Can someone please at least give me a hint?
This has got to be the funniest PR disaster they could actually muster up.
They must be losing all their best people and are left with talentless hacks.
At least in the early days of the Great Scientology War they made things difficult.
Now they are just basically giving up and flailing around wildly hoping something will stick.
Also, lets not forget that in OT-3, Hubbard teaches that there was no christ and that the ideas of gods and satan are nothing more than R-6 implants thanks to Xenu the evil galactic warlord of 75 million years ago.
How can Scientology be compatible with any religion if they teach that there was no christ and that the idea of god and the devil are false and they are merely implanted into our brains?
I hope they face the wrath of Oprah for not including her in this glorious representation of spiritual masters or something.
There's like six light sources in the mountaintop photo. Must be the glow of science fiction holiness.
They cut me out of the damn picture, too.
I was standing up there to the left of Thom Krouize.
Wait until they get a taste of my galactic confederation.
Xenumania says:
Although some religious leaders and followers are fairly forgiving, I don't think it will be so with the Muslims (an eye for an eye).
Generally agree with your point, but that quote is from the Old Testament, Exodus 21:23�27. Perhaps extremists of both religions can find common ground after all.
What's truly hilarious is that Scientology commonly claims that you can be any other religion and still be a Scientologist, and yet they have this image, as well as the belief that all other religions come from an alien movietheater.
This, however, is practically asking for people to be outraged. Muslims got angry over the Pope saying something they didn't agree with. I can only imagine the hell that will be raised once this gets out.
ugh hello thar scienotards worldwide,
let us put our thinking caps on and see that there is nothing sexy at all about a starving man at death's door being treated worse than an abused animal going to slaughter.... you can slap some other face on that man...
what the hell was the purpose of your manipulative disrespectful attempt to rewrite history with photoshop? To make this horrific moment in time look like an effing Calvin Klein fashion shoot?
(is that supposed to make the RPF beans and rice slave labour diet look attractive?)
PROTIP: Human Life is not valuable in $cientology. According to your Lee Durr, people are just recyclable meat bodies.
Fist, notice that the church of scientology had mohammad's face covered with a veil. How insulting can you be, because only women in the Muslim world cover their face with a veil. Oh wait, there IS something more offensive. They show Mohammad and the other religious figures LOWER than the Scientology dude, as if Scientology is supposed to be higher and mightier than all other religions.
Although some religious leaders and followers are fairly forgiving, I don't think it will be so with the Muslims (an eye for an eye). Mohammad is most sacred to the Muslims.
Since the leader of Scientology, David Miscavige, ordered this to go out to the public and David Miscavige approved it, I think it is only right that David Miscavige be held responsible for his irresponsible, offensive, and blasphemous actions.
If the Cult of $cientology keeps this up there is going to be nothing left for Anonymous to do except to party on.
Oh wait . . . we are doing that already.
$cientology makes protesting them fun and easy. They do the work, spend the money and we just dance outside to Never Gonna Give You Up.
Cue the new batch of Scientology OSA internet handlers, John Davis, GaryDM, Achilles.
EVEN BETTER! Notice how all the other religious figures lead up to Jesus, but then there's a little dip for Muhammad? I'm trying to come up for a way for this to be more offensive, but it's just not happening!
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