After writing my first blog on whether or not religion should be ditched I came across the video of Tom Cruise talking about scientology. While I was watching the video I realized that he never described what scientology was. After doing a little bit of research I came to the conclusion that Scientology as a religion suggests that humans in nature are perpetual in being. It suggests that humans have lost contact with nature and their true self. In trying to find one’s self it believes that one should turn to spiritual rehabilitation or in other words, auditing, which tries to find certain aspects of a followers previous accounts in life and finds the moments that have traumatized that person. In doing so the believer can be set free from his/her restraints on life. I mean there’s probably more but I really can’t stand to read any more on it. Putting both what I found out about scientology and watching the Tom Cruise video clip I came to the conclusion that scientologist have ditched religion, by religion I mean the pure form of believing in a god or deity and the duties he has bestowed upon mankind. Yes they have turned to a set of beliefs that help the believers understand their life and purpose on this earth more effectively but it has no major backing of what I would like to think of as original religions. Scientology is merely a cover up religion that is really the study of science in form of psychology to treat its patients or in this case follower. So simply put scientology as a religion has actually ditched religion and its farfetched beliefs for a concrete science.
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