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TONY ORTEGA
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We want to thank the correspondent who took one for the team and actually watched Grant Cardone’s new interview on Vlad TV, focusing on the segment when he was asked about being one of Scientology’s biggest donors…
Real estate pitchman and motivational speaker Grant Cardone recently appeared on a Vlad TV interview that was broken up into shorter segments.
The 12-minute portion that included questions about his Scientology involvement was a fiasco by any standard — sloppy, unprepared, and almost willfully unchallenging — yet it offers a revealing look at the limited reasoning and worldview of an OT 8, the church’s highest publicly acknowledged level. In the video, Cardone insisted that Scientology is “absolutely not a cult,” explained why money has nothing to do with advancement in the church, and dismissed criticism of the religion as a distraction from more pressing world problems.
Asked whether Scientology should be considered a cult, Cardone rejected the label outright and offered his own definition: A closed, uniform group where everyone believes the same thing, follows the same prayers, and lives according to one person’s beliefs. Scientology, he said, doesn’t fit that description.
He then widened the comparison dramatically. Football teams, political movements like MAGA, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews were all folded into the discussion. At one point, when asked directly whether Jews were a cult, Cardone replied, “Somewhat,” before moving on. What went unaddressed is that sociologists who study high-control groups do not define cults by uniformity of belief or religious diversity. Instead, they focus on authoritarian leadership, control of information, coercive practices, and punitive internal justice systems — all areas where Scientology has faced sustained scrutiny for decades.
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Real estate pitchman and motivational speaker Grant Cardone recently appeared on a Vlad TV interview that was broken up into shorter segments.
The 12-minute portion that included questions about his Scientology involvement was a fiasco by any standard — sloppy, unprepared, and almost willfully unchallenging — yet it offers a revealing look at the limited reasoning and worldview of an OT 8, the church’s highest publicly acknowledged level. In the video, Cardone insisted that Scientology is “absolutely not a cult,” explained why money has nothing to do with advancement in the church, and dismissed criticism of the religion as a distraction from more pressing world problems.
Asked whether Scientology should be considered a cult, Cardone rejected the label outright and offered his own definition: A closed, uniform group where everyone believes the same thing, follows the same prayers, and lives according to one person’s beliefs. Scientology, he said, doesn’t fit that description.
He then widened the comparison dramatically. Football teams, political movements like MAGA, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews were all folded into the discussion. At one point, when asked directly whether Jews were a cult, Cardone replied, “Somewhat,” before moving on. What went unaddressed is that sociologists who study high-control groups do not define cults by uniformity of belief or religious diversity. Instead, they focus on authoritarian leadership, control of information, coercive practices, and punitive internal justice systems — all areas where Scientology has faced sustained scrutiny for decades.
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The OT 8 life: Grant Cardone on Scientology, Money, and Xenu
We want to thank the correspondent who took one for the team and actually watched Grant Cardone’s new interview on Vlad TV, focusing on the segment when he was asked about being one of Scientology’s biggest donors…
tonyortega.substack.com
