Today Tonight: Australian Senate Inquiry Release Special - Bryan Seymour

First broadcast: 7th September 2010



Original by Zhent.

Australia Tax Laws Amendment (Public Benefit Test) Bill 2010 - 7 September 2010

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Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• scientology
• cult
• scam
• anonymous
• bryan
• seymour
• xenu
• dianetics
• cchr
• miscavige
• rathbun

[cyraxandflyraxHaters]

awesome and L Ron Hubard thought that Australia would be the first continent to be clear LOL well he was half right their the first continent to be cleared of $cientology the criminal cult hiding behind religious cloaking

[chrisholland]

Congrats Senator Xenophon & Bryan Seymour!

[Jym01]

"Our 4 year investigation"?

I see 2 scenarios:

1: Today Tonight are taking credit where none is due

or

2: Today Tonight is part of Anonymous

[cupmyplums]

$cientology obviously didn't pay off the right people. They won't make that mistake again.

[sparkly21]

Bryan Seymour + CoS = Marriage

[TheEvilOfScientology]

But if those same people try to preach to me and that things like that actually exist, and that Dianetics or the tech "Works 100% of the time when correctly applied" I reserve the right to call bullshit and question them on either their sanity, gullibility, or both.

You could intelligently dispute that Scientology is not a cult and is a religion. What you cannot dispute is that the CoS is an abusive, criminal, human rights abusing organisation, founded by a criminal, racist, homophobic liar.

[TheEvilOfScientology]

I'm happy for people to believe in any old horse shit they want to, so long as they are not harming others. In the case of the CoS it's demonstrative fact that they do harm to others.

If people want to believe their bodies are rife with Body Thetans that must be removed, and that removing upsetting engrams are the answer to life's problems, great, they should go for it. I hope they're happy.

[TheEvilOfScientology]

Scientology qualifies as a cult on all 5 standard recognised requirements. It's not the only faux-religion that does qualify of course, but that doesn't make it not-a-cult :) Scientology is not recognised as a religion in my country, and quite rightly so. It is a proven criminal, abusive, dishonest organisation.

Again, I am not disputing the fact that a supposedly unbiased reporter should not call a "religion" a cult.

[TheEvilOfScientology]

@daveyork0 I notice none of your examples included so-called "religious" cults. Could you name me any "religion" that recognises themselves as being a cult? Did the members of the Raelian Church for example, consider themselves members of a cult? I doubt they did. Just because a so-called "religion" doesn't call itself a cult, it doesn't mean it isn't. I wouldn't expect any religion based organisation to refer to itself as a cult. I think there's a pretty obvious reason why!

[daveyork0]

@TheEvilOfScientology Cults form around items of popular culture and artists and intellectuals where the membership acknowledges their group as having that nature: cults around Star Trek, the Blues Brothers movie, Star Wars, the Goodies, Monty Python, and the Grateful Dead. The evil internet troll group known as Anonymous also is a cultgroup. It's precursor Is Cult of the Dead Cow.

Scientology recognises it's own church character and has never had a reputation for trivialising itself.

[TheEvilOfScientology]

@daveyork0 Do you know of any serious "religious" organisation that would refer to itself as a cult? I don't think I do. The term cult is usually used by outside observers. I actually agree with you that an unbiased reporter should not address the CoS as a cult... yet. Is it really any great surprise that the CoS doesn't refer to itself as a cult (though countless ex members do)? Abusive, criminal organisation generally do not like to admit what they really are.

[daveyork0]

It has always been a church never refers to itself as a cult. As a revelation of his unprofessionalism this tv journalist openly employs that term of abuse toward the faith community of scientologists.