The pot
27.01.2008 20:46
I don't know anything of the inside organisation of Scientology, hardly anything of the outside. But a cult or even the term itself is something inspiring the darkest imagination in the ignoramus, and he exploits it as it frightens him indeed, but still less, he feels, than the common, even more crazy, 'man in the street' who is always tending towards superstition and a conspiracy theory to hold on to. I would be more practical. The Nazi Germany top was a kind of cult in this sense, and that is why Germany today is maybe so obsessed with Scientology, as a form of psychological compensation. It is projection: the pot calling the kettle black, perhaps from a sense of guilt, which is a also a bit suspicious today. If anything at all there is a very simple motive behind the ban on Scientology in Germany: they are a church, for taxpaying (evasion) reasons. They don't have to pay ordinary taxes as a church, which they call themselves but likely are not. It is no religion but a contemporary form of psychotherapy, with the same kind of effects of the latter but unprotected by the State. Issues of money and tax were of paramount appeal to the middle class supporting the cult of Hitler as well. But If anything negative, today such people are just superficial and greedy, still not to be underestimated in mass formation.No, this appeal sounds a bit like medieval paranoia and superstition.
In the very worst case it is of a dark kind trying to breed fear, written by a modern cartoonist who cannot think of a text, probably a German with some student friends from the bar with a limited knowledge of English who calls himself a group from the audience of his own subconscious mind. If indeed there is any deceit in a 'cult' or 'occult', it is only in creating unnecessary fears, especially of the archetypal kind.
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