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[2005The founder of Scientology's fascinating life story. - By Michael Crowley - Slate Magazine
Hubbard's version is understandably preferable to the reality, which was a dark farce. Hubbard was born in 1911 in Tilden, Neb. After flunking out of George Washington University, he became a pulp science-fiction and adventure writer.
[2007] Scientology may be a bizarre faith invented by a sci-fi hack. But it's not a cult. - By Mark Oppenheimer - Slate Magazine
But reaching such a conclusion, as I have discovered, isn't bound to win a religion writer any friends. I recently wrote an article (subscription required) for the New York Times Magazine about Milton Katselas, the acting teacher of Giovanni Ribisi, Anne Archer, Tom Selleck, George Clooney, and many other stars. Katselas is a Scientologist, and there are those in the acting community who steer clear of his school because of its perceived connection to Scientology.
The New Life Christian Church, which operates from three Northern Virginia campuses, has been airing a string of low-key local spots full of banter about silly, decidedly nonspiritual topics. "What's the word for dried apples?" wonders a woman in one of the ads, noting that while dried plums are prunes and dried grapes are raisins, dried apples have no moniker of their own. "A place for random people," reads the tag line, as an on-screen URL directs us to the church's Web site . This slogan sort of undercuts the gravitas of the church.
[2009] Are the new Scientology ads persuasive? - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine
On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. “For ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego,” Haggis wrote. Before the 2008 elections, a staff member at Scientology’s San Diego church had signed its name to an online petition supporting Proposition 8, which asserted that the State of California should sanction marriage only “between a man and a woman.”
[2011] Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology : The New Yorker
[2011] J’ai testé la scientologie et c’était pas bien: le test | Slate
Pour mieux comprendre où je suis allée foutre les pieds, rappelons que la scientologie est une philosophie spirituelle qui prétend aider à mieux vivre au quotidien –c’est la partie qu’on appelle la dianétique– et qui a été inventée par un auteur de romans de science-fiction nommé Lafayette Ron Hubbard. D’un point de vue spirituel, la théorie de la scientologie se résume à peu près à: Il y a 75 millions d’années, Xenu, un extraterrestre qui dirigeait une confédération galactique, s’est trouvé face à un problème de sur-population. Il décida alors de se débarrasser des habitants en trop en les envoyant sur terre où il les extermina à coup de bombes H. Une solution simple et efficace mais qui a engendré un léger problème pour nous autres, humains: les âmes de ces extraterrestres, appelées des thétans, vivent maintenant à l’intérieur de nous et nous parasitent à travers des images mentales négatives nommées engrammes.
Dr Jean Marie ABGRALL Psychiatre CES de Médecine Légale DEA de Droit Pénal et Sci ences Crim inelles Expert national agréé par la Cour de Cassation