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    Scientology was founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard through his book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. International headquarters are located in Hollywood, California. It has over 500,000 adherents across 373 churches in 129 countries. Main teachings include using Scientology practices to alleviate unwanted emotions and psychosomatic illnesses while increasing spiritual awareness. Scientology believes in reincarnation and attaining salvation through increasing one's spiritual awareness, with the goal of creating a civilization without issues like insanity, crime, or war.

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    Scientology was founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard through his book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. International headquarters are located in Hollywood, California. It has over 500,000 adherents across 373 churches in 129 countries. Main teachings include using Scientology practices to alleviate unwanted emotions and psychosomatic illnesses while increasing spiritual awareness. Scientology believes in reincarnation and attaining salvation through increasing one's spiritual awareness, with the goal of creating a civilization without issues like insanity, crime, or war.

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    Scientology: QUICK FACTS

    by Charlie H. Campbell @ www.AlwaysBeReady.com



    Founded: The Scientology religion was founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard
    who was born in 1911 in Nebraska. Mr. Hubbards well-known book Dianetics:
    The Modern Science of Mental Health was first published in 1950. It reached the
    New York Times bestseller list that year and again in 1988.

    Headquarters: The Church of Scientology International is the mother church of
    the Scientology religion. International headquarters are located in Hollywood,
    California.

    Size: The latest edition of the organization's publication What Is Scientology? lists
    373 churches and missions (plus hundreds of related organizations which are not
    directly comparable to congregations) in 129 countries. As of 2005, there are
    approximately 500,000 adherents.
    1
    It is one of the wealthiest of the new religions.
    Celebrities such as Tom Cruise, J ohn Travolta, and Kirstie Alley are only a few of
    the Hollywood faithful who actively endorse Scientology.

    Main teaching: According to Scientology, practicing Scientology can help
    alleviate such things as unwanted sensations and emotions, irrational fears and
    psychosomatic illnesses (illnesses caused or aggravated by mental stress) as well
    as increase ones spiritual awareness and ability and help one realize ones own
    immortality.

    Concept of God: Scientology affirms the existence of a Supreme Being, but does
    not include the worship of one. Scientology believes that only through total
    spiritual enlightenment can one truly discover and understand the Supreme Being.

    Concept of Jesus: Hubbard rejected Christ's deity and mission as figments of
    unenlightened minds.

    Concept of Man: man is a spiritual being whose existence spans more than
    one life and who is endowed with abilities well beyond those which he normally
    considers he possesses. He is not only able to solve his own problems, accomplish
    his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also to achieve new states of spiritual
    awareness he may never have dreamed possible. Scientology holds that man is
    basically good, and that his spiritual salvation depends upon himself, his
    relationships with his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the
    universe.
    2


    Afterlife: Scientology claims that death is endlessly repeatable through
    reincarnation and is hence almost inconsequential. Scientology teaches that we all
    have lived past lives and that upon death a person is reincarnated into the flesh of
    another body.

    Salvation: In the tradition of certain Eastern religions, Scientology teaches that
    salvation is attained through increasing ones spiritual awareness. The complete
    salvation of the person, called Total Freedom in Scientology, is attainable
    through the practice of Scientology religious services. As ones spiritual
    awareness grows through practicing Scientology, so does his ability to determine
    his own answers and solutions about life, the spirit and eternity, and to know them
    with absolute certainty.
    3


    Goals: Scientology claims to help a person with the tools to handle the upsets
    and aberrations from past lives that adversely affect one in present time, thus
    freeing one to live a much happier life. Scientology also seeks after a civilization
    without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper
    and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights.

    Ceremonies: Sunday services are held regularly in Churches of Scientology.
    Scientology ministers also perform naming ceremonies for the newborn, weddings
    and funerals.




    1
    http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
    2
    http://www.bonafidescientology.org/chapter/02/index.htm
    3
    http://www.bonafidescientology.org/chapter/02/page09.htm

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