Alcoboy,

Agreed. Even unto this day.

I now know what to get your kids for Christmas: t-shirts that say I LOVE MY BODY THETANS!

It seems to me, Jim, that some parents back then saw mere teaching on the subject of Communism as a form of indoctrination. There may have been the secret fear that just a little piece of information on Karl Marx would have the whole school singing the Internationale. People can sometimes be irrational in this way.
Just my two cents.

Thank you for your comments Simbiala! That was my thought too, that the schools lightly touch on cults, and unless it was an actual CoS teacher teaching there, and trying to infiltrate, I’m not too concerned, Like you said, this is a very well educated free thinking, sophisticated society….maybe CoS was brought in specifically to learn about how cults work, and CoS doesn’t even know that and are spinning it their way of course. This IS the most successful cult and real estate scam to ever hit the charts, so maybe they are studying how THAT happened. Hopefully, it is nothing more.

When prisons took selected felons into the community to warn teens against gangs, warn about the dangers of drugs, warn about the negative effects of a criminal record, they inadvertently glorified the gangster and/or felon lifestyle. At least a couple of studies showed the rate of teen anti-social and criminal behavior actually increased among those who attended the presentations. Well-meaning felons, who all had the approval of community leaders and prison management, were sending the message that, if you don’t get caught, gangs and crime are fun, exciting, and profitable.

Despite their good intentions, the felons were not insulating teens against bad choices. They were showing them an exciting and rebellious lifestyle. It was exactly the opposite of what the adults wanted their teens to experience. Since teens are by nature all ten-feet-tall-and-bulletproof, the chance of going to prison and having a felony on their record was an impossibility for them, because at that time in their young lives bad things only happen to other people, not to them. Potential dangers pass right by teens, or so they think. All they could see from the felons’ presentations was the excitement, the rebellious opposition to their parents’ life choices, and a negligible element of danger not so different from driving too fast, or unprotected sex. They just “know” they will not have a wreck, nor will anyone get pregnant because… well, just because they “know” it.

It is much better to help a child stay far, far away from Scientology than to assume that a child going to the cult cherch, even well-armed with truth from their parents, will despise the experience. Some children or teens will succumb to the blandishments of cult members anyway, if only from childish poor decisions, or from normal teen rebelliousness and desire to follow their own path regardless of the parental choices laid out for them.

It only should take a moment of recall to remember how frail we were to the temptations of the cult, or similar groups, and how they influenced us when we were young. By now we parents should know not to let children anywhere near such powerful temptations if we can prevent it. At some point they must make their own decisions; of course, but prior to that they need smart, educated adults to guide them down safer paths.

Got it.

Danes are generally pretty good with English, I don’t think a translation would be necessary.

Yes! That’s exactly it. The org counted all the BTs on the 25 kids too!

I vote for NXIVM day. I think OSD and I could get down with that action.

You went to the wrong part of the interweb for your emoji, OSD.

I got some emoji once, but it came out pixilated.