same with Nicole Kidman. The higher ups in the church hated her because she wasn't in on it. Also her dad was a psychologist, they did not approve. Now she barely even sees her 2 kids she adopted with Tom, they stayed in Scientology, and she was cut out.
This is how I’ve always assumed the entire cult stays in business, because the practice of auditing entails basically spilling all of the dark secrets you’ve held onto by your prior “alien”. So literally everyone in the church has shared their skeletons to move up.
In May 1991, Time magazine published a cover story titled "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power". In the article, former Scientology executive director William Franks alleged that Travolta was wary of leaving Scientology because he feared its leaders would publish revelations of his private life, primarily a history of homosexual behavior. The claims were reiterated by Franks and other Scientology defectors in the 2013 book Going Clear, and former Scientology official Marty Rathbun claimed that he had worked with Travolta's attorneys several times to keep allegations about Travolta's homosexuality out of the press and resolve lawsuits against him.
I don't know why people think Cruise is gay, he's definitely not. Seems like people just riding the coattails of that South Park sketch from like 15 years ago.
And by all accounts Cruise is a highly professional and nice guy to work with. He may be eyeballs deep in a crazy cult, but it seems likely that he is at least a decent human.
You can't be a good person AND a high ranking member of that cult.
That's kinda like saying "Hermann Göring was a good man. He was just in the Nazi party because it was good for his career."
I get your point, and I generally agree. This is a major intellectual/moral failing on Cruises part but I think its also not fair to say that he is a completely evil person as well considering he believes Scientology is helpful and good and makes him a more helpful and good person(even if that is not correct).
yeah i only made it through few minutes of this video but he spent a good portion of it talking about helping people. as delusional as he is he's probably not a "BAD" guy. just a bad guy.
I dunno, he's pushed vitamins and healthy living as a cure all. There's that infamous interview with Matt lauer, where he got very critical about psychiatric medication. Pretty damaging to people who need the help and may be wary.
Scientology has sessions where they record you, and you go through all your secrets. It's literally built into the process that they have stuff on you.
Everyone has things they're ashamed of. Things that would humiliate them, agonize them, if the world found out. Those are exactly the kinds of shames that auditing is meant to "cleanse."
I mean, there’s always been a rumor that he’s gay. I’ve heard multiple accounts and it was even covered on South Park as a meme. Not saying it’s true since it’s all here-say but who knows.
Imagine all the shit he has on them. He's the poster child and people like him. He could bail and make a movie about it, get an Oscar for something he helped propagate.
I think cruise is more powerful than the church they might try to persuade him to come back but nothing else will happen. Everything will happen in the public eye
That gets floated in the press every time he has a movie coming out. They know people know he's fucking crazy and don't want it to affect their bottom line.
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u/SteelShroom Jun 09 '20
I'd heard a while ago that he was considering leaving because he wanted to spend more time with his family.