Tom Cruise Scientology Video Leaked In Its Entirety
This is the first of a series of four videos which have leaked on to the internet. This is what Gawker used to edit together the 9+ minutes of video they leaked. Scientology claims Tom Cruises' comments were taken out of context to make him seem strange and unhinged. Now is your opportunity to view them in their entirety to make the judgment yourself.
I also feel it necessary to point something out. If at any point I felt I was demonstrating a bigoted reaction to someone's religion - I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I have covered this story because I felt it needs to be told, looked at, pondered and considered. Whatever Scientologist's believe intrinsically, I wish to take nothing whatsoever from them. I would not want someone questioning my faith or beliefs, and certainly not ridiculing them.
What I would want to see at the end of all this is an opportunity for Scientologists to believe what they wish, be comfortable with those beliefs, but be free to question them. All faith requires a bit of questioning in order to feel secure in the knowledge that you understand what it is you believe. I don't feel it is right that a religion require blind, fearful devotion in order to achieve a sense of enlightenment. We have free will for a reason. I also don't blame Tom Cruise, John Travolta or an other Scientologist who is unaware that their religion may have caused/be causing irreparable harm to others. I blame David Miscavige, because while I have no proof of this, my instincts tell me he doesn't control this organization out some altruistic aim for good, but because he is a greedy, evil man.
This is who I blame. Not L. Ron Hubbard for his crazy, psychosis-induced imagination, or the blind followers doing what they are told out of fear or cluelessness, I blame David Miscavige for perverting a philosophy that could have helped millions had it been given freely and with honest intent. Shame on you David Miscavige, shame.
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