Guide Note

Actor Tom Cruise is a devout Scientologist and said during an interview "I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn because a Scientologist...has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. Being a Scientologist, you look at someone and know absolutely that you can help them..."

Fast Facts

1. KSW: Keep Scientology Working
2. SP: Suppressive Person
3. Wife Katie Holmes is also a member

Quotes

"But perhaps the weirdest part of it all is that Hubbard himself — a paranoid megalomaniac and sci-fi writer who cobbled the roots of Scientology together out of eastern mythology, utopian futurism, and his own eccentric phobias and schoolboy’s love of campy sci-fi neologisms — was able to attract followers despite being quite plain about the mercantile side. A quote of his from a 1980 Reader’s Digest article sums it up: 'If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.'"¹