Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch

[Lars77]

Source: MySinchew

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 23 (AFP) -- Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.

Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.

A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.

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First solar-powered bibles, now this.

[Uben]

1. Solar powered bibles?

I didn't even get the electric version yet. I gotta get out more!

[old mark]

4. Do you still have the wind-up? I hate that "ticking " sound - I always

think they are going to explode....


mark

[LeftishBrit]

2. When you consider what $400,000 might have done if used sensibly....

this is sick-making.

[hobbit709]

3. What a crock of Airhead 101 thinking

These people need real help, not BS from a made up "religion"

[SkyDaddy7]

7. Scientology is no different than any other religion...

All religions are "made-up". Scientology just happens to be the new kid on the block much Christianity in Rome 2000 yrs ago.

If only Christians in America would use the same lens of reason & rational thought to view their own religion as they use to view Scientology...But I guess that is asking to much.

Space aliens vs the cosmic zombie...Both make good science fiction.

[Stuckinthebush]

11. Damn right, Skippy

This headline would barely turn heads:

"Christians engage in prayer with earthquake victims"

[time_has_come]

13. The difference is the level of insideous brain-washing and money-sucking though

it's easy to generalize, but if you take a close look at scientology you find that the controlling, money-sucking, abusive nature of it is ingrained.

Yeah, you could hold up examples of other religions being abusive and controlling etc, but note the word "ingrained". It's part of the process, everytime.

I know Christians that can stop going to church and/or stop giving money to their church and nobody starts repeatedly calling them or showing up at their door, for example.

[SkyDaddy7]

20. Scientology is not doing anything Christianity has not done...

Most of all Scientology gets scorned because it is not Christianity. So, any little thing will get blow way up and ridiculed...That is what religions do to each other! Especially Christianity, it has sucessfully brainwashed most into thinking religions like Wiccans are devil worshipers.

Since Scientology started Christianity has been responsible for 100 deaths to ever one Scientology has been blamed for...And that is probably being very conservative!


I have absolutely no emotional bond to either religion so I see them for what they are.

You talk about brain washing...Christianity has had 2000 years to brain wash in so many cultures that very few even blink when folks start talking about original sin, virgin birth, rising from the dead, drinking the blood of Christ, eating the flesh of Christ and so on and so on!!! CRAZY STUFF! However, it has been forced into the heads of westerners for 2000 years so folks act as if it is normal.

Give Scientology 2000 years and their bat shit crazy ideas will be just as normal.


Religion is all about brain washing! Religion cannot work without some form of brain washing or programming from a child. So, what scientology does is actually mild compared to the history of most other religions around the world. Scientology does not have the luxury of complete rule like so many other religions had...Or it would probably go nuts like the others did! LOL!

[rd_kent]

23. OMG, you seem blind to the obvious....

but if you take a close look at scientology you find that the controlling, money-sucking, abusive nature of it is ingrained.


Dude, ALL religions work on this principle. You do not think that christianity is controlling, money-sucking and abusive?

[time_has_come]

25. you don't get it

I'm sorry, you just don't.

Scientology is a different breed, a dangerous machine, and it is built that way. Christianity does not even come close to being as controlling, money-sucking, and abusive as scientology is. not even close

[rd_kent]

27. Maybe from YOUR point of view, but not from mine.

I understand that from your point of view, it is a lot worse, but from my point of view, its just as bad.

Substitute is with killing, from your point of view, the scientologists are cutting off someones head, while christians are just suffocating people. From my point of view, BOTH are just killing people only using different methods.

[Kurska]

16. Except Scientology makes their worships endure massive debt and then sues them if they don't work

for free. Do some research, it is a grade A Scam that has left people dead. Worse then even the most vile form of modern Christianity.

[InkAddict]

17. Reason and rational thought are anathema to the faith-based

religious, but then their "motes in the eye" are not as equal as the beams they find in everyone else's. Scientologists have just transformed and reduced that hyprocrocy into some hocus-pocus, self-serving and handled scientific formula in which they seek and gain the larger beams just because those beams are bigger and better, so what can one expect?

[hobbit709]

19. I consider all religions made up

but Scientology is proven to be such.we don't know for sure if the others were started on a bet but that one was.

[rd_kent]

22. Agreed, but ALL religions are "made up"

Scientology is no less weird and whacky than any other.

[Robb]

5. The Guardian is on this, too

Don't panic Haiti, the Scientologists are coming!
For our good friends from the church of L Ron, it's not so much a tragedy as an opportunity

Psychopath, conman, liar, fantasist, fraudster, bully, tax evader, megalomaniac – it's fair to say L Ron Hubbard's death was a blow to global humanitarianism. Happily, there is a silver lining to the cloud that has hung over Earth since the founder of Scientology shed his corporeal form in 1986. That silver- lining is the high profile, expansionist figures who represent his organisation today – and the good news is that they're turning their thoughts to Haiti.

Were an idiot like you to itemise the myriad things that this most wretched of disaster zones currently lacked, chances are you'd omit "militant Scientologists who claim post-traumatic stress is a conspiracy created by the evil psychiatric profession, and who believe the correct response to extreme shock is to touch sufferers with one finger, before attempting to convert them to the ways of Hubbard".

All I can say is, thank God for John Travolta. The Wild Hogs legend has unveiled his response to the unfolding crisis, announcing: "I have arranged for a plane to take down some Volunteer Ministers and some supplies and some medics." For the medics and supplies John must obviously be thanked, but for the Volunteer Ministers – arriving in Haiti via Air Travolta along with scores from other Scientology churches – the same cannot be said.

According to an official press release, the corps will be on hand to dispense "spiritual first aid" to Haitians. Because really, nothing should feel more appropriate right now than gadding about Port-au-Prince offering survivors the chance to be hooked up to an e-meter. Hopefully if they find any gay people, they can begin curing them.

For the Volunteer Ministers, you see, a tragedy is not so much a tragedy as a tragitunity....

[SkyDaddy7]

8. The same applies to...

All the Christians who use tragedy to convert souls. I see no difference.

[time_has_come]

14. see post #13 n/t

[formercia]

18. The Haitians have no money.

It seems like a cheap publicity stunt to me.

[time_has_come]

26. Many of them do...but yeah, they're all about the publicity, fer sure. n/t

[rd_kent]

24. "wild hogs legend" hahahaha! That was the WORST movie!

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[madrchsod]

9. they need jonas!

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Seems to me

that these loons are just begging for the machete. Auditor, heal thyself!

[bamacrat]

12. In an unrelated story NAMBLA has decided to go to Haiti to help.

[Stephanie]

15. $400,000

Think of the actual medical supplies that could buy.

[jmowreader]

21. You know, the "power of touch" could help a lot down there

Give each one of the Scientologists a contractor's wheelbarrow. They go to a rubble pile that can't be cleared with a machine. They apply the power of touch to a piece of rubble, lift it and deposit it in the wheelbarrow. When they've applied it to enough pieces of rubble, they push the wheelbarrow to the end of the street and dump it before returning to apply the power of touch to some more rubble.

[redqueen]

29. lol

:thumbsup:

[rd_kent]

28. At least they are not murdering and burning people alive like some christians in NIgeria are doing.