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Что запрещено делать саентологам? Правила Церкви



  • The Church of Scientology forbids street drugs and psychiatric drugs, though members take prescribed medicine and see doctors for physical illness.
  • Scientologists may drink and smoke in daily life, but no alcohol is allowed within 24 hours of auditing, and no smoking in course rooms or sessions.
  • Someone the church declares a Suppressive Person is expelled and loses fellowship with other Scientologists, and publicly renouncing the faith is one of the acts that can bring this.
  • The church calls disconnection a personal last resort and says no policy requires members to cut off family or friends, while former members such as Leah Remini describe friends who would no longer speak to them.
  • Members of the Sea Organization sign a symbolic billion-year pledge and, since 1986, must leave the order for a time if they want to raise children.
  • Scientologists keep their own holidays and are free to vote, and newcomers need not leave another religion, though a study the church publishes says the old faith is usually left behind in practice.
  • Christian teaching honours doctors and medicine as gifts of God, and it holds that we live once and are saved by grace through faith, not by many lifetimes of auditing.

Scientologists may not take street drugs or psychiatric drugs, and they may not keep company with anyone their church has expelled as a “Suppressive Person”. Nor may they drink within 24 hours of auditing or training, and members of the Sea Org, the church’s religious order, may not raise children inside it. Beyond these, its published rules are few. The church explains its rules by what it hopes to give its members, and its word for that gift is freedom.…

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