@peteranastasia1808

3 weeks ago

I’ve never seen Handmaiden’s Tale but yesterday I finally watched the two hour 2015 documentary — “Going Clear: The Church of Scientology” and I was shocked to see so many parallels between Mormonism and Scientology.
Both corporate religions make huge real estate and business investments finding IRS loopholes and NOT using their vast multi billion war chests primarily to help the poor and needy as the IRS stipulates.

Both corporate religions mandate huge donations and tithes to the church to be in good standing.
Both religions rely heavily on their own distinct brands of propaganda and mind control with heavy extraterrestrial overtones. Both religions worship an off planet god.

Members are forbidden to research their prospective religions on the internet and forbidden to listen to ANY criticism.
Both religions disconnect with family members if they leave the church.
Coercive tactics are used to prevent members from straying from the herd and if they do they are treated as pariahs and branded undesirable outcasts. They are treated as potentially dangerous to the believers.
They consistently revise their brand to make their image more palatable to the uniformed and naive masses.

Heavy handed mind control is implemented utilizing shame, guilt and plenty of fear and fear mongering.
Both corporate churches exploit the free labor of the members like the Mormon missionaries and the Scientology Sea.org division. These folks work for peanuts while the church exploits these people for profit.
I was appalled to recognize all the similarities. Both religions had highly delusional or crafty self proclaimed prophets with lots of charisma who knew how to manipulate the masses.
Both L Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith wrote their own versions of their religious doctrines and manuals.
Both Hubbard and Smith had their unsavory dark sides with marked sociopathic tendencies.

Both corporate cult-like religions are Messianic in nature and both Hubbard and Smith are revered as demigods with a messianic complex.
It is questionable whether either founder actually believed their own religious propaganda and theology.
Both religions prohibited interracial relationships and marriages or homosexuality.
The similarities are uncanny and frightening. Hubbard could easily be regarded as a modern day Joseph Smith self proclaimed prophet.
Both prophets became very paranoid and afraid of the United States government just like David Koreesh, Jim Jones, Charlie Manson and other self proclaimed cult leaders like the ex Mormon man who abducted Elizabeth Smart. Remember her? A deranged former Mormon member kidnapped her several decades ago to form his own pedophile harem like Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, who also married underage young girls making him a pedophile.

I recommend everybody watch the well done documentary, GOING CLEAR about Scientology available FREE on YouTube. HOLY HELL is another great well done documentary on cult-like groups and the manipulative dynamics involved in attracting and retaining members. There is a good reason these groups remain very secretive and clandestine. They don’t want to let the cat 🐱 out the bag before hooking prospective members with their seductive promises until it is too late. It is encouraging there is so much education available now on cult dynamics and cult-like empires.
Perhaps musician Frank Zappa said it best: “the only difference between a cult and a religion is based on the amount of real estate they own.”
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