Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Actor Penganut Scientilogy

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise


There is perhaps no other celebrity as associated with Scientology as Tom Cruise. The 50-year-old was reportedly introduced to the religion by first wife Mimi Rogers (who no longer practices) and has been a strong member of the church ever since, something that has often worked against him in the media. “If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing,’” Cruise told Playboy earlier this year. Reactions like that are probably why many other celeb Scientologists aren't quite as vocal about their involvement with the church. 





John Travolta

John Travolta, Kelly Pres …After meeting future husband John Travolta on the set of a film in the 1980s, actress Kelly Preston began practicing Scientology, a religion Travolta had been a part of since 1975, and the couple’s 1991 marriage was performed by a French Scientologist minister in Paris. In May of this year, Preston said on “The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet” that her religion that helped her deal with the loss of her 16-year-old son Jett, who died in late 2008. “In Scientology, we have what’s called ‘auditing,’ and that helps you to address things in your life and to strip them away. It's a path of spiritual enlightenment. Also, it helps rid the mind of painful experience completely. Through that, the people at my church literally held my hand and got me through... I will forever be indebted,” she shared. Jett's death also brought attention to Scientologists’ denial of mental and neurological disorders and opposition to psychology and psychiatry. The couple had initially denied that Jett had autism, saying he suffered from a disorder called Kawasaki disease. During the trial of two men accused of extorting the family after Jett’s death, however, Travolta admitted for the first time that his son had indeed been autistic. 

Dough E Fresh

Doug E. FreshDough E Fresh claimed to be hip-hop's first Scientologist back in 2009, when he revealed he had been adhering to the religion for eight years. He and a former girlfriend, a New York radio personality known as Miss Jones, were introduced to Scientology by Isaac Hayes. "I've learned how to look at things and not judge them but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality," Fresh told Essence magazine. He added, "Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people. Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look. You may be amazed at what you get." 

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