Is Tom Cruise the Jesus of Scientology - What is Scientology?

I loved Risky Business. I watched this movie at least 10 times. Tom Cruise was my hero. Then a very strange thing happened. He threatened to boycott all his pre-release publicity appearances for his upcoming movie MI3 if South Park, a comedy television series played "Out Of The Closet" a cartoon about Scientology, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and other Scientology celebrities. This made me very interested in Tom Cruise and his connection to The Church Of Scientology.

The Church Of Scientology

My curiosity about Scientology peeked when headlines of magazines started to ask the question "Is Tom Cruise The Jesus Christ of Scientology". Well that was strange. I had heard very little about Scientology before but now I started to wonder what was this "religion" was about. All I had heard previously was that it was based on the book Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard a prolific science fiction writer. This lack of knowledge led me to many different web sites relating to both Tom Cruise and Scientology.

Scientology apparently is based on event which L. Ron Hubbard indicated ten million years ago when Xenu a master of many planets led the surplus population of these planets to Earth. They boarded rocket ships which closely resemble DC 8 jet liners but with rocket engines for propulsion. Some seventy million aliens boarded the space vehicles which upon reaching Earth, were led by Xanu into a large Volcano. Xanu then bombed the volcano with nuclear weapons killing all 70 million space aliens. The one problem was that the bomb only killed their corporeal selves but their souls, called Thetans escaped into the atmosphere and then into the very souls of the human's throughout human existence.

These Thetans were not what you would want in your soul since they caused all mental health problems including anxiety, depression as well as all the personality disorder problems common on Earth today. Worse yet the Thetans are the cause of most physical illnesses as well from asthma, to allergies, from alcoholism, to tuberculosis. Actually just about all illness was Thetan induced. This was not a good thing. Dianetics is what L. Ron Hubbard and his Scientologist followers used to rid the human soul of Thetans and therefore just about everything that is wrong with mankind.

But Scientology's founders had a cure. It was very long term and very expensive but at least there was hope. They called the Thetan induced problems engrams which were thought and brain function patterns caused by the memories of the pre-Xenu bombed aliens. They could be expunged from the human subconscious by the use of Auditors and E-meters. All areas of human distress could be addressed by an Auditor and the results recorded on E-meters. Once all the bad engrams were wiped out the person undergoing Auditing would be a "Clear" or person with no remaining Thetan engrams. They could live a long and happy life. But becoming a Clear was a long and costly Process.

Tom Cruise Cleared

It takes a lot of dedications, a lot of money and a lot of belief but some lucky people are fully Clear. Tom Cruise is one of these very special people. He has probably done more for The Church Of Scientology than any other person (maybe L. Ron Hubbard excepted).

He has bought into the Church many converts and I'm sure much financial backing. The Sun of The United Kingdom declared that "Tom Cruise is the new Christ of Scientology according to leaders of the Cult-like Religion". Blue Star Chronicle report that Church Leader David Miscavige believes "that in the future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped like Jesus for his work to raise awareness of the religion".

My Conclusion

It seems to me that anyone who has a hissy fit because they were squirted on the red carpet by a water gun, jumps up and down on Oprah's couch, divorces Nichole Kiddman, threatens South Park, and marries a girl almost half his age, is no Jesus Christ. He's just a spoiled little boy who never grew up.