Tom Cruise conundrum
January 24, 2023 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2023 at 10:27 pm by Fake Messiah.)
With the Oscar noms coming, I started thinking about what I call the "Tom Cruise conundrum." Tom is a very powerful figure in a criminal organization that exploits people. If you are a member of Scientology, they make you cut your ties with your family members and make plans for you to borrow money from other people in your circle, go into debt, and give them that money. So, people rewarding (I am not talking Oscars)/ worshipping Tom Cruise are just enabling him to exploit people more and are normalizing their criminal behavior, and making more people get fooled to join Scientology.
Now some will say that people (Tom Cruise) have a right to their religion, and this is where the conundrum lies. But Cruise is not just a member of that religion, he is pretty much its head, and that religion is exploiting people to their demise and as such could spectacularly backfire on not just Scientology but a society that rewards people like Tom Cruise.
So maybe there is no solution but to let things go as they are. Or maybe there could be pressure on Tom Cruise and Scientology to become transparent about what they are doing, but since they would not do that and since there is not anyone who would press them, it seems useless. We are talking about people who publicly attack their ex-members.
Now some will say that people (Tom Cruise) have a right to their religion, and this is where the conundrum lies. But Cruise is not just a member of that religion, he is pretty much its head, and that religion is exploiting people to their demise and as such could spectacularly backfire on not just Scientology but a society that rewards people like Tom Cruise.
So maybe there is no solution but to let things go as they are. Or maybe there could be pressure on Tom Cruise and Scientology to become transparent about what they are doing, but since they would not do that and since there is not anyone who would press them, it seems useless. We are talking about people who publicly attack their ex-members.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
