“Brainwashing” is the concept that an individual’s entire personality can be wiped out and replaced through the use of physical torture and drugs. The use of the term is much more sinister than simply disagreeing with someone’s life choices. You must be brainwashed.” The concept was utterly rejected by social scientists years ago, but it underlies much of the propaganda against religious minorities and is worth examination. No correct-thinking individual could possibly disagree with me. This is the completely biased inference that someone who joins a religious group disfavored by whoever is speaking could only have done so as a result of “religious brainwashing.” The shorthand equation is, “I am right. He has had ample opportunities to resolve his personal relationships, but has instead used his one-time association with the Church to generate publicity.Debunking the Myth of Religious “Brainwashing”Ī significant area of misinformation perpetuated by anti-religious social scientists and others is the subject of so-called “religious brainwashing.” He was expelled a decade ago from the Church for involving Church members in his unethical financial dealings. Reaiche is a deadbeat dad exploiting his children. When reached out to the Church of Scientology for comment, the organization provided the following statement: “I can’t kidnap them and I can’t convince them because they’re brainwashed.”Īlex Gibney’s damning new documentary about the church, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, features similar sad anecdotes from men and women who left the church and were subsequently shut out by family members.
Over a decade later, Reaiche has come to terms with the estrangement. “I immediately called my kids who were in Glendale, California, with their mother, no answer,” he says. Masterson had two young sons, Danny and Christopher, and Reaiche says that upon marrying, he raised both boys as his own, as well as his children with Masterson, Jordan and Alanna. Until then, what it does to families is absolute evil that’s allowed to persist.”Īccording to the report, Reaiche was “a fully qualified counselor and Operating Thetan (OT) 7-at the time the highest rank within the Sea Org-by the age of 23.” He estimates that he spent over $400,000 on courses with the organization, and joined the church’s clergy, called the Sea Org, after marrying fellow Scientologist Carole Masterson in 1984. Reaiche, who became a Scientologist when he was 20 years old, shares his story with the Daily Mail because, as he claims, Scientology is “a very deep and sordid abyss” and will be “until it loses its charity status or its tax-exempt status. Now, in a new report that eerily mirrors that parental estrangement story line, former Scientology clergy member Joe Reaiche claims that the church “brainwashed” his four children, including Danny Masterson ( That ’70s Show) and Alanna Masterson ( The Walking Dead), into suddenly cutting him out of their lives. classification to coax the couple’s two adopted children into alienating their mother. When Cruise sued for divorce, Orth reported, the organization used Kidman’s S.P. In Vanity Fair’s 2012 cover story about Scientology, contributing editor Maureen Orth reported how the organization labeled Nicole Kidman a Suppressive Person-someone “who could threaten the spiritual well-being of” Scientologists-towards the end of her marriage to Tom Cruise.
0 kommentar(er)
