In case you’re still lost as to what the heck is going on, a Scientology Run is when people film themselves charging into a Church of Scientology building to see how far they can get before being caught and booted out. It’s a notoriously secretive religion, so it turns the whole place into an action-movie set piece where the protagonist is trying to infiltrate a compound while fending off its legion of foot soldiers, clad in terrifying white button-ups with black vests.
it’s trespassing with the added benefit of a dice roll on the building security’s understanding of castle doctrine.
Or even just getting hit in the head by a well-meaning person who reasonably thinks they’re trying to prevent a maniac from killing someone in the building.
Area 51 all over again
full of energy and stupidity. no special reason.
Of all the brainerot fads I’ve seen come and go over the past few decades, I think this is the one I like the most. Anything that pisses off the CoS gets my seal of approval.
This isn’t a genz novelty, there were a lot of activism in the early 4chan days against Scientology. The whole guy fawks mask and anonymous thing started there.
Run till you find Shelly.
Just need to look in David Miscavige’s basement freezer.
I dunno. These are cracking me up for some reason and even though this article is a bit shallow, I think a decent point was made at the end: power charging religious buildings is kinda bad taste I think - even if Scientology is full of complete asshole weirdos.
reminder: scientology is not a religion.
It is, for tax purposes.
Reminder: all religions are made up and mental illness adajcent.
calling exploitative cult a religion is quite bad taste imo
Which religion isn’t though?
They’re all exploitive and cult-like in my opinion.
There’s a difference, aside from size and social recognition?
Control. Generally speaking a religion and a cult are differentiated by how much they demand or control in members lives. Scientology, Mormons, and even a lot of Southern Baptists are generally cults or really cult like. For comparison Anglicans, Quakers, and progressive Neo-Pagans are on average not cults even if they are insane and playing with the dynamics at times.
So christianity was more of a cult in medieval times?
On the other hand, all religions are complete weirdos and not a single one of them deserves special status or protections.
Scientology is not a religion
Sounds like something a religious person would say to feel like their religion is more sensible.
It’s absolutely a cult. Ex enforcer Mike Rinder himself called Scientology an intelligence gathering organisation.
All religions are cults.
Religion, cult, intelligence gathering… none mutually exclusive.
It’s pretty well documented that L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology to serve as a financial tool. Hence the financial controversies and the IRS battles from the 70s-90s
I agree, but that doesn’t prevent a social club from being a religion, does it?
There’s a clear difference between an organisation intentionally created as a cult in living memory and one which, as far as we all know, arose organically from the sincere beliefs of people.
It doesn’t make the beliefs of one more true or something, it’s just a useful categorisation.
Mentally ill people have sincere beliefs too.
Well the thing is, it’s a cult.
They all are though tbf
There’s different types of names for a group depending on certain variables. Not all cults are religions.
Well yes, especially given that the Catholic church is basically (for a given value of ‘basically’) a continuation of the Roman empire, a financial instrument clothed in religion. Same as Scientology.
I’ve lived in their home town. Anything to annoy and distract them is a good thing.
Seems to me if you did some research, came up with a cover story and dressed the part, you could walk in and get pretty far before being caught. Just pretend you’re on your mission year, and wear a nametag.
Uhh… wrong one?
You could be a Mormon trying to recruit Scientologists?
Works for scientology too doesn’t it? Not just LDS?
Pretty sure they don’t do missions. They’re all about recruiting people for money, not righteousness.
Jehovah’s Witness are another that’s big on missions and door-to-door converting. Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of?
Jehova’s Witness: “Hello, we’d like to talk to you about Jesus”.
Bernard Black: “Oh, I’d love to talk about Jesus! What’s he been up to lately?”
I still often say “Jesus” the way that actor delivered that line
Jaee-zus
Fight stupid with stupid. I dig it.
they are channeling any number of Tom Cruise characters
I love gen z
