Parenthetically, that board’s author wrote “…it’s direction, it’s goal,” which shows lack of care in writing. The word “it’s” is always and only a contraction, never a possessive pronoun. The phrase should have been written as “…its goal, its direction,” with no apostrophes.

And the rest of that board’s post on Scientology is equally sloppy and ill-researched.

Scientology expands only by proving the workability of its counseling in one-to-one counseling sessions, and the proven value of our social betterment programs.

Any other assertions are the too-eagerly believed hate-speech of those who were dishonest with others in their family, their lives or in the church. Let’s use our heads: If only one-tenth of one percent of what is said about Scientology were true, we would never be working side by side with police officers, court officers, judges and other mainstays of several countries’ legal systems. Our work with them is on social improvement programs like drug prevention, individual drug rescue, criminal rehabilitation, and literacy centers.

Next, Scientologists do not ‘pray,” per se. Our belief in God does not include that form of communication asking. But any Scientologist is free to retain any practices of their earlier religions that they find comforting.

The claim of having met all level VIIIs is also false. No one having done so would term them “level VIIIs,” but would refer to them as “OT VIIIs.”

The rest of the remarks are laughable. The higher one goes in Scientology, the higher one’s personal ethics must become. There is no other way to grow as a spiritual being than by constantly striving to be more loving, more decent and more honest with others.

Rhetoric that strives to drive wedges between Scientologists and their non-Scientology family members, their employers, their neighbors, et al., is born of misunderstandings, reading too much hate-speech, and some desire to cause anger and upset.

Very best,
JvG