Religion in the 21st Century

Some of the most advanced scientists and technological geniuses have also been the most religious.

I believe there has been far too much of an orientation away from spirituality and too much fixation on the material.

I believe people in some of the less developed countries on Earth, despite the barriers they have from lack of availability of I resources, actually have the advantage over Westerners in terms of spiritual awareness.

A 21st century religion has to provide solutions to 21st century problems.

Today drugs are just crippling society, not just street drugs either - also psychiatric drugs. People become addicted to those and lets face it, those drugs are being used to try and solve the problems of life.

Many Scientologists use the Scientology Handbook to help people through those problems so they don't have to turn to chemical "solutions."

Also at a recent event, Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center, introduced a speaker who told of the massive anti-drug campaign that Scientologists around the world are promoting. To assist with this new booklets were released that give the inside information on both individual street drugs and prescription drugs - very interesting information.

If you can get a hold of the booklets you should get them and share the information.

I really want to help educate people to help prevent more addicts and this one of the most important things my religion is doing.

How would you classify the 21st Century so far?

How would you classify the 21st Centry so far?
When I was in college in the 60's I thought by now we would have the Age of Aquarius in full swing. But instead we have Israel and Lebanon escalating a conflict up into a full-blown war, starvation in Darfur and threatening the lives of millions throughout Africa, and Americans, who have everything that 80% of the planet craves and strives for - wealth, leisure, entertainments, IPods and MacDonalds - popping pills to and being told they have a disorder and need to take the latest pharma cash cow to cope with it (never mind the side effects, so WHAT if it increases your risk of suicide 7 times over someone who doesn't take it. The psychiatrists say it's safe and they're the authorities).

I don't know about you, but I personally don't like this kind of world, and I want to do something to change it.

I'd like to see Americans spending less time on their angst and more time helping people. I personally find it terrifically therapeutic to help somebody else. It normally makes ME feel great.

But then again, I have something I can use to help people. You would be amazed how fast a simple Scientology "assist" (see the definition of an assist here) works and how fast it is to learn how to do it. In fact you can just go to the Scientology Handbook web site and read about assists there.

I see the 21st Century as the century of potential. Because Scientology IS something people can learn quickly that really works to help people and this gives us a fighting chance to change the things we find despicable about this place and make it humane and prosperous and fair.

Human Rights Religion

You could call Scientology a human rights religion.

It's part of the creed of the Church of Scientology (We of the Church believe: That all men of whatever race, color, or creed were created with equal rights). It's part of the Code of a Scientologist (To decry and do all I can to abolish any and all abuses against life and mankind).

And now Scientology churches around the world are supporting an international human rights education campaign based on 30 public service announcements, each of which illustrates one of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

You can see three of these PSAs online at the Youth for Human Rights International web site.

What sort of a Church structure do you expect to see in the 21st century? Nowdays you can see anything and everything from historical cathedrals to modern state-of-the-art establishments.

The Church of Scientology International has and is continuing to renovate a number of their premises and in a lot of cases, is purchasing new structures and then upgrading them. Some examples are:

The most recent premises that have been opened or are about to can be seen at these links provided here:

* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICA
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF TAMPA
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF NEW YORK
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY IN SPAIN
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF BUFFALO
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF SAN FRANCISCO
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF TORONTO
* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF