41 Facts About Church Scientology

Church of Scientology is a group of interconnected corporate entities and other organizations devoted to the practice, administration and dissemination of Scientology, which is variously defined as a cult, a business or a new religious movement.

All Church Scientology management organizations are controlled exclusively by members of the Sea Org, which is a legally nonexistent paramilitary organization for the "elite, innermost dedicated core of Scientologists".

The Church Scientology "creed" emphasizes three key points: being free to enjoy "religious expression", the idea that mental healing is inherently religious, and that healing of the physical body is in the spiritual domain.

Church of Scientology promotes and teaches Scientology, a body of beliefs and related practices created by L Ron Hubbard, starting in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics.

Church Scientology teaches that people are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature.

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Contrary to the biblical narrative where the universe was created by a divine, sole creator, Church Scientology holds that "the universe was created by theta in the form of individualized expressions".

Scientology is legally recognized as a tax-exempt religion in the United States and the Church of Scientology emphasizes this as proof that it is a bona fide religion.

One of the major tenets of Church Scientology is that a human is an immortal alien spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is presently trapped on planet Earth in a physical "meat body".

At a local level, every Church Scientology center is a separate corporate entity set up as a licensed franchise and has its own board of directors and executives.

Church Scientology groups called "Saint Hill Organizations" located in Los Angeles, Clearwater, Copenhagen and Sydney still teach this course.

Organization was founded in 1975 when a Church Scientology-founded group called "Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp" purchased the Fort Harrison Hotel for $2.

Several Church Scientology executives, including David Miscavige, live and work at the base.

Church of Scientology bought the former Gilman Hot Springs resort, which had been popular with Hollywood figures, in 1978; the resort became Gold Base.

Church of Scientology maintains a large base on the outskirts of Trementina, New Mexico, for the purpose of storing their archiving project: engraving Hubbard's writings on stainless steel tablets and encasing them in titanium capsules underground.

On March 12,2018, Church Scientology Network started broadcasting on DirecTV as well as online at the Church Scientology Network website, and through AppleTV, Roku, fireTV, Chromecast, iTunes and Google Play.

Church of Scientology denies the legitimacy of any splinter groups and factions outside the official organization, and has tried to prevent independent Scientologists from using officially trademarked Scientology materials.

Church Scientology has courted a relationship with the Church of Scientology, and materials and certifications are still required to be purchased from the organization, and are not independently produced.

Critics of Church Scientology have spoken out against the disciplinary procedures and policies of the Sea Org, which have been a source of controversy since its inception and variously described as abusive and illegal.

Church of Scientology began its "Volunteer Ministers" program as a way to participate in community outreach projects.

In 1979, several Church Scientology members were convicted for their involvement in the organization's Operation Snow White, the largest theft of government documents in US history.

From 1952 until 1966, Church Scientology was administered by an organization called the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, established in Arizona on September 10,1952.

Centers of Church Scientology were in 52 countries by the time the 80s came in and grew to 74 by 1992.

Church Scientology cites its tax exemption as proof the United States government accepts it as a religion.

In some countries Church Scientology is treated legally as a commercial enterprise, and not as a religion or charitable organization.

Unlike many well-established religious organizations, Church Scientology maintains strict control over its names, symbols, religious works and other writings.

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Church Scientology organization has continued to aggressively target people it deems suppressive.

Church Scientology was taken to the Fort Harrison Hotel, a Scientology retreat, to receive a treatment sanctioned by the organization called Introspection Rundown.

Eight years later, Elli Perkins, another adherent to Church Scientology's beliefs regarding psychiatry, was stabbed to death by her mentally disturbed son.

The death of Elli Perkins at the hands of a disturbed family member, one whose disease could have been treated by methods and medications banned by Church Scientology, again raised questions in the media about the organization's methods.

Church Scientology was found on January 22,2008, clothed only in a shirt.

Inga Marte Thorkildsen, parliament member, went as far as to say "Everything points to the Church Scientology cult having played a direct role in making Kaja choose to take her own life".

The test, despite its name and the claims of Church Scientology literature, has no connection to Oxford University or any other research body.

In 1983 the High Court of Australia dealt with the question whether the Church of Scientology is a religious institution and as such not subject to payroll tax.

Under parliamentary privilege in the Senate, Xenophon declared that the Church of Scientology is a criminal organization.

In December 2012, Belgian officials completed their file on Church Scientology and brought charges of extortion, illegal medicine, various breaches of privacy, and fraud.

The plans to ban Church Scientology were finally dropped in November 2008, after German officials found insufficient evidence of illegal activity.

Legal status of the Church of Scientology in Germany is still awaiting resolution; some courts have ruled that it is a business, others have affirmed its religious nature.

UK government's 1971 official report into Church Scientology was highly critical, but concluded that it would be unfair to ban the organization outright.

However, in 2000, the Church of Scientology was exempted from UK value added tax on the basis that it is a not-for-profit body.

In 1979 Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, along with ten other highly placed Church Scientology executives were convicted in United States federal court regarding Operation Snow White, and served time in an American federal prison.

On February 8,2008, three judges in the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals "expressed deep skepticism" over the IRS's position that treatment of Church Scientology is "irrelevant to the deductions the Orthodox Jews, Michael and Marla Sklar, took for part of their children's day school tuition and for after-school classes in Jewish law".