How can we speak about cult without talking about Scientology? It is one of the most cults important in the USA with its 55.000 followers in 2001; and all over the world with for example 6.000 scientologists in Germany and about 1.500 in Canada.They even have their dedicated South Park episode (the twelfth episode of the ninth season)!
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Name: scientology
Leader’s Name: L. Ron Hubbard
Number of followers:55.000 in the USA, 6.000 in Germany, etc…
Date of creation: 1952
Website: http://www.scientology.org/
Description of their belief: "The Scientology religion attempts to explain the origin of negative spiritual forces in the world and advances techniques for improving one's own spiritual well-being. Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago. These spirits attach themselves by "clusters" to individuals in the contemporary world, causing spiritual harm and negatively influencing the lives of their hosts." - Judge Leonie Brinkema; US DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, Alexandria Division, Civil Action No 95-1107-A
Their goal: Bring people to understand their own life as well as themselves, in order to make all the improvements they find necessary.
The quotations’ box:
L. Ron Hubbard: “You have to neglect illness, and the body, and so forth, to improve man. “
L. Ron Hubbard: “Psychiatry has to do with the insane, and we have nothing to do with the insane whatsoever. The insane -- well, uh, they're insane.”
From Introduction to Scientology (1984) (Video), a televised interview given by L. Ron Hubbard
Ressources on scientology :
http://www.xenu.net/archive/COS_members.html
http://www.lermanet.com/howmany.htm
http://www.scientology-lies.com/
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