Remembering Mike Rinder: His warning about Scientology and Christianity

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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We lost Mike Rinder a year ago today, and we’re still coming to grips with it. To mark the anniversary, we thought it might be best to remind people of the good work that Mike did by reprinting one of our favorite stories that he ever did at his blog. (With Christie Collbran’s blessing, of course.) So here is Mike’s great explanation for why Scientologists are lying when they say you can continue to be a Christian or Jew or anything else when you join Scientology.

Can Scientologists be Christians or Jews Too?

(Originally published by Mike Rinder on December 31, 2016)

Scientology likes to tell the world that you can be a Scientologist and also be a Christian, Jew, Buddhist or anything else. This is an “acceptable truth” intended to deceive the public until they become Scientologists and can be properly indoctrinated to continue the lie “for PR purposes.”

(Hubbard describes an “acceptable truth” this way: Handling truth is a touchy business also. You don’t have to tell everything you know — that would jam the comm line too. Tell an acceptable truth. Agreement with one’s message is what PR is seeking to achieve. Thus the message must compare to the personal experience of the audience.)

Scientologists, Celebrities and PR spokespeople dish up this line routinely to make themselves sound benign and unthreatening. They talk about “respecting the religious beliefs of others” (as long as they are not former Scientologists) and other pablum that sounds sort of “religious” as makes them seem more “acceptable.”

This is a recent tweet that was sent to me (I cannot see Erika’s tweets because I am blocked, even though I have never tried to tweet to her, friend her or even mention her):

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Remembering Mike Rinder: His warning about Scientology and Christianity

We lost Mike Rinder a year ago today, and we’re still coming to grips with it.

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[I M Dex]

Hubbard was so insecure that he was obsessed with preventing any loyalty to or worship of anyone else. "KSW" is no less than 10 different ways of saying "Thou shalt take no other god but me", and the reason he contrived to stretch out 10 different ways of saying it was to instill a subliminal association with the 10 commandments.
Hubbard felt threatened by people's belief in their God, and so he imposed indoctrination in the idea that "God" is an instilled fallacy, and omitted any other form of reference to God in his "religion", and he feared being unloved, and so omitted any mention of love and substituted a mechanical concept of "ARC".
One of the things that impressed me about Mike Rinder was that he never stooped to childish bashing of the small and unstable mind that bashed him. Rathbun easily fell into being arrogant and condescending, and was a self-promoter who even after he defected, still showed how much macho satisfaction he took in harming Scientology's designated enemies, until he caved to DM's tactics and mouthed transparently ridiculous badmouthing of those who had been his friends and allies and defenses of the C of S. Mike Rinder maintained his dignity and humility while still making his points in his work to make up for his earlier efforts as a Scn exec, to help victims and to raise awareness.