Letter to the Editor: Church of Scientology has much to offer the Drexel community
Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Ed-Op
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Editor:
Eamonn Rockwell succeeded at his stated task of offending at least one group ("Xenu vs. Rockwell: The phight for Philly," March 2): the members of the Church of Scientology here in Philadelphia who have personal experience of the practical tools provided by Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, which have helped them lead better lives, lives of greater happiness, greater self-respect and better relationships with others.
Rockwell starts by wildly distorting scientology beliefs, and then making it into the premise for "humor." You can walk into the Church of Scientology at 1315 Race Street, any day of the week, and you would find nothing like what Rockwell has described. (The fact is that it is not difficult to find some part of any religion which can be distorted and made to look weird.)
Instead, you would find new, effective answers to solve problems and difficulties that one can experience in life. Scientology simply offers solutions that work. It can also provide one with a greater understanding of who he really is as a spiritual being. As an example of an effective answer, in scientology one can learn tools that will enable one to study and be able to apply anything to the point where one is not reliant on someone else's understanding of a subject and then telling one what to think about it.
However, for the person that prefers to be told what to think and feels that gossip columns or cartoons are the best source for information about a subject, I suspect that such a person is not likely to find scientology helpful. However, if one is the type that wants to find out for oneself and does think for oneself, then I invite you to look and find out for yourself what scientology is all about.
Another thing you will find out about scientology when you look is the work that the church and individual scientologists are doing across the world to make the world a better place. These activities include fighting for human rights and human rights education. Scientologists respond to disasters, such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami, with the largest independent relief force on Earth, over 87,000 members. Scientologists are working to salvage those people that have fallen victim to the chains of drug abuse and prevent children from using drugs in the first place through anti-drug education. Then there are the literacy programs that empower individuals to study and learn that are in use in schools and tutoring programs across the world. These are just some of the activities of scientologists who seek "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," which are in fact the aims of scientology, as stated by L. Ron Hubbard.
Eamonn Rockwell succeeded at his stated task of offending at least one group ("Xenu vs. Rockwell: The phight for Philly," March 2): the members of the Church of Scientology here in Philadelphia who have personal experience of the practical tools provided by Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, which have helped them lead better lives, lives of greater happiness, greater self-respect and better relationships with others.
Rockwell starts by wildly distorting scientology beliefs, and then making it into the premise for "humor." You can walk into the Church of Scientology at 1315 Race Street, any day of the week, and you would find nothing like what Rockwell has described. (The fact is that it is not difficult to find some part of any religion which can be distorted and made to look weird.)
Instead, you would find new, effective answers to solve problems and difficulties that one can experience in life. Scientology simply offers solutions that work. It can also provide one with a greater understanding of who he really is as a spiritual being. As an example of an effective answer, in scientology one can learn tools that will enable one to study and be able to apply anything to the point where one is not reliant on someone else's understanding of a subject and then telling one what to think about it.
However, for the person that prefers to be told what to think and feels that gossip columns or cartoons are the best source for information about a subject, I suspect that such a person is not likely to find scientology helpful. However, if one is the type that wants to find out for oneself and does think for oneself, then I invite you to look and find out for yourself what scientology is all about.
Another thing you will find out about scientology when you look is the work that the church and individual scientologists are doing across the world to make the world a better place. These activities include fighting for human rights and human rights education. Scientologists respond to disasters, such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami, with the largest independent relief force on Earth, over 87,000 members. Scientologists are working to salvage those people that have fallen victim to the chains of drug abuse and prevent children from using drugs in the first place through anti-drug education. Then there are the literacy programs that empower individuals to study and learn that are in use in schools and tutoring programs across the world. These are just some of the activities of scientologists who seek "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," which are in fact the aims of scientology, as stated by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Me
posted 3/09/07 @ 10:33 AM EST
CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULT.
Patricia Devlin
posted 3/09/07 @ 1:56 PM EST
Here, here! Thanks for this follow up to the earlier editorial. This makes good sense. I am tired of religions being made the subject of jokes or ridicule. (Continued…)
The Skeptic Al
posted 3/10/07 @ 5:25 AM EST
Unfortunately Mr. Thompson is a professional mouth piece for the crime syndicate and mind control cult that calls itself the Church of Scientology, and as such has only restated the standard company line. (Continued…)
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