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The current events that have occurred in Haiti are depressing and gravely unfortunate to say the least. So it’s good to see that those that are capable lend a helping hand to those in need, especially when there was much difficulty getting even basic things like food to the poor people. It’s good to bring food, clothes, medical supplies, etc. But to bring your religion to those in dire need of basic things needed to live? Yup, that was on John Travolta’s agenda as he flew six tons of supplies as well as some ministers from the Church of Scientology (of which he himself is a member) to the tragedy laden area. In bringing aid & relief to the people, he thought it was a prime opportunity to spread this bizarre religion (which many would argue is a cult).
Now I definitely understand bringing much needed supplies to a country in need. But please…PLEASE do not use it as an opportunity to spread “the good word” to those that need so much more than to be mislead. And even more so, do not make that religion one as odd as Scientology. If there’s one thing I absolutely canNOT stand, it’s when religions pray upon those in need and those of weak mind to gain new members by showing their “support”. You see this time and time again unfortunately, and I’ve seen it happen personally myself. It’s a rather disturbing practice.
So what’s so weird about this cult religion? First of all, it was founded by a sci-fi author. Okay, practically from that alone, you know it’s going to be weird. But let’s keep going to strengthen the argument. At the core of its teachings is the belief that humans are “immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature”. Last I checked, humans weren’t immortal. They have a lifespan of about 80 years. And what’s the “true nature” that humans have forgotten you ask? A thetan, named after the Greek letter theta. A thetan is an “intrinsically good, omniscient, non-material core capable of unlimited creativity.” So this is the true nature of every human being? Uh huh! Sure it is buddy! I’m pretty sure humans are not omniscient. If we were all omniscient, there wouldn’t be a lottery since everyone would already know the numbers that were going to roll out. If we were all omniscient, there would be no need to go to school…at all! If we were all omniscient…well, you get the point. Continuing on.
Scientology also believes that souls (“thetans”) have lived on other planets prior Earth in previous reincarnations…WOW! But wait, there’s more! And it gets worse too! I’m going to take a few paragraphs from a Wikipedia page to tell you about Xenu, since there’s no way I could summarize this and still give you the same impact of disbelief and amazement.

Hubbard wrote that Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago, which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as “Teegeeack”. The planets were overpopulated, with an average population of 178 billion. The Galactic Confederacy’s civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens “walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute” and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those “circa 1950, 1960″ on Earth.

Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of his citizens together under the pretense of income tax inspections, then paralyzed them and froze them in a mixture of alcohol and glycol to capture their souls. The kidnapped populace was loaded into spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The appearance of these spacecraft would later be subconsciously expressed in the design of the Douglas DC-8, the only difference being: “the DC8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn’t.” When they had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously. Only a few aliens’ physical bodies survived.

The now-disembodied victims’ souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu’s forces using an “electronic ribbon” (“which also was a type of standing wave”) and sucked into “vacuum zones” around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a “three-D, super colossal motion picture” for thirty-six days. This implanted what Hubbard termed “various misleading data”‘ (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, “which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, et cetera”. This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The two “implant stations” cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of personal identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.

A government faction known as the Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and his renegades, and locked him away in “an electronic mountain trap” from which he still has not escaped. Although the location of Xenu is sometimes said to be the Pyrenees on Earth, this is actually the location Hubbard gave elsewhere for an ancient “Martian report station”. Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah “prison planet” to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien “Invader Forces” since that time.

WOOOOOOOW! HOLY…SHIT! That’s…AMAZING! It astonishes me that someone came up with such a crazy, deranged, acid-induced story…and made a cult religion out of it! And there are followers!!!!! And this is the basis of what Travolta is going to attempt to spread to disaster stricken Haiti. I just lost all respect for this man.

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Now, with that out of the way, I stumbled across this page on Richard Dawkins’ website. Here’s a way to contribute to the relief without supporting brainwashing religions.

This a consortium of various non-religious organizations that will bring aid and effort to the people of Haiti. So if you haven’t already, please support the cause.

Additional reading: John Travolta Contributed to Rescue Measures in Haiti