# I pit my SO's scientologist ex-husband. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 22, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747 "2012-05-22T19:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/41 "2012-05-25T22:10:07Z")
Just out of curiosity, do we have any Scientologist Dopers at all? ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/42 "2012-05-26T03:07:24Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > Yes and no. Yes, the dude is a massive twatmuffin. Scientology is also an awful, awful institution. It’s like the difference between hanging out with your kids in someone’s living room smoking reefer all day vs. bringing crack or heroin addicts around your kids. Yeah both are bad, but one is worse. So the line is Scientology? Choking out mom in front of the kids sucks but at least he’s not a Scientologist? Interesting. To my way of thinking the heroin/crack is the domestic violence. Scientology is the blunts. I would think that domestic iolence is far, far worse than Scientology. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/43 "2012-05-26T03:11:11Z")
> [@FuriousGeorge](#): > > So the line is Scientology? Choking out mom in front of the kids sucks but at least he’s not a Scientologist? Interesting. To my way of thinking the heroin/crack is the domestic violence. Scientology is the blunts. > > I would think that domestic iolence is far, far worse than Scientology. Well, it’s certainly more widespread. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/44 "2012-05-26T03:15:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just out of curiosity, do we have any Scientologist Dopers at all? I’m pretty sure we’d be considered suppressives. At least I hope so. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/45 "2012-05-26T03:15:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just out of curiosity, do we have any Scientologist Dopers at all? Not any who would admit it, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/46 "2012-05-27T11:13:37Z")
> [@Filmbufflistener](#): > > And Fuck Tom Cruise as well for his, need for scientology and push this, bullshit onto others where they do need medication for the long suffering. > > I go though crappy patches each year with psoriasis where I’ve become reliant on it. Its not a cure its treatment for pain and suffering for 30 years. > > As for this, guy’s rant with wife I don’t think its non of our business to judge the guy, I don’t know him, well enough to know if he’s a total ass towards the wife and children or just misunderstood? Do I need a decoder ring to understand what the fuck you are talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/47 "2012-05-27T20:21:02Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Sorry, but objectively, there is little difference between taking his kids to a scientology meeting, and taking his kids to any brand of a bit orthodox Christian/Jewish/Muslim church/temple. Do a little googling on Scientology. Read the negative things you find. It _literally_ (and that ain’t hyperbole) _requires_ you to self-induce a state of ‘Psychosis Situational’ (via the E-Meter and the Audit shit), in order to swallow the Xenu shit. “orthodox Christian/Jewish/Muslim” doesn’t require that before you can swallow the basic tenets. _They_ only require you to accept some _comforting_ lies. Scientology requires you to accept some really psychotic lies. > [@Morgenstern](#): > > I can’t imagine what an unemployed person finds interesting about a “religion” that allows you to progress based on your financial ability to pay. Hopefully, they’ll realize what a nutcase the dude is and do something to straighten him out. Google yourself up “Sea Org” (you may have to throw in ‘Scientology’ as a search term). They have a way of taking advantage of the people with no money. It’s called ‘slavery’ by most people. This is _not_ a typical ‘religion’. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747/48 "2012-05-28T02:38:25Z")
You know, it occurs to me that Scientology is probably the most unpopular religion in America. Nobody who has heard of it and is not in it seems to have any respect for it. Not even Satanism, or Wicca or any other form of neo-paganism, or the Unification Church with its Moonies selling flowers in the streets, is so widely despised. It says something for the power of the tradition of religious freedom in this country that it thrives as much as it does and its facilities are rarely vandalized. (Of course, it also speaks to the power of the Church’s taste for proactive litigation; and the power of having a few high-profile Hollywood celebs in thrall.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-sos-scientologist-ex-husband/622747.md?page=2)