Scientology Exposed--Again!
When W magazine interviewed Katie Holmes back in 2005 though the 26 year old didn’t jump on a couch, she was close to giddy over both her famous new beau, Tom Cruise, and her controversial new “religion,” Scientology.
US magazine has referred to that interview as “infamous [and] creepy” and posted before-and-after photos of the actress which it described as “Katie’s shocking transformation during her marriage to Tom.”
Personally, I don’t regard the pictures as “shocking” at all, other than reflecting seven years of gentle maturation.
However, what was creepily shocking was the fact Ms. Holmes was accompanied to the 2005 W sit-down by a “Scientologist chaperone” with long-standing ties to Scientology, Jessica Rodriquez. Ms. Rodirquez was not only present throughout the interview but at times audibly told the star what to say, such as prompting her to effuse about Cruise,”You adore him.”
Holmes was also allowed to say, “You know, it’s really exciting. I just started auditing [Scientology] . . . and I’m taking some courses, and I really like it. I feel it’s really helping. What I like about it is that, you know, I was raised Catholic, and you can be a Catholic and a Scientologist, Jewish and a Scientologist.”
And maybe a Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Muslim as well?
That odd interview and Holmes’ confusion as to what religion actually involves are testimony to the success of the “auditing process,” the lofty, esoteric goal of which, according to Scientology’s website, is ”to restore beingness and ability. . . accomplished by: (1) helping individuals rid themselves of any spiritual disabilities; (2) increasing spiritual abilities.”
Auditing also serves to elicit every possible dirty and clean little secret from the audited victim, secrets, it has been alleged, that have often been used to attack apostates.
All in all, there is sufficient evidence that Scientology is much more a twisted, sinister cult than a bonafide religion. It evokes comparisons to the Stepford Wives, visions of Jim Jones’ Kool-Aid, and the terror of Orwell’s Big Brother rather than to religion.
Another woman, Kerry Hiatt, far less famous than Katie Holmes yet clearly more intelligent, recently substantiated that conclusion. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26633.)
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