{"id":32409,"date":"2011-05-04T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32409"},"modified":"2011-05-04T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:30:41","slug":"does-tom-cruise-share-responsibility-for-scientologys-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32409","title":{"rendered":"Does Tom Cruise Share Responsibility for Scientology’s Abuses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDanielle Berrin at the Jewish Journal spoke with SWC Board Member<\/a>, film director Brett Ratner. Ratner said<\/a>:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n\u201cTom Cruise cannot be responsible for an entire religion,\u201d film director Brett Ratner, who sits on the Wiesenthal\u2019s board of trustees said to me by phone last week. \u201cYou can\u2019t say he\u2019s the reason the religion is doing what it\u2019s doing. That\u2019s like saying, \u2018The Jews killed f\u2014\u2014\u2014Jesus; why am I a Jew?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nRatner is flat-out wrong. There is one man who is responsible for the entire religion, or cult as it is known in Israel, of Scientology: Tom Cruise’s best friend, “ecclesiastical leader” David Miscavige, who pimped out motorcycles for Cruise and himself using Church (slave) labor – arguably a case of innurement<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n…After citing hair-raisingly hateful statements from L. Ron Hubbard, the astute Sarah Green asks What does Tom Cruise Stand For?<\/a> She writes:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nPerhaps Tom Cruise should be given the award. First, however, I would ask that he give a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d answer to this question \u2014 without any equivocation or evasion: \u201cTom, do you reject these statements of L. Ron Hubbard\u2019s?\u201d (followed by a selection of hateful writings such as those presented above).<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nTom Cruise is not responsible for L. Ron Hubbard and David Miscavige’s violence and abuse. If he guilty of anything he is guilty of “willed myopia”, as Paul Haggis describes it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nTom Cruise has enormous responsibility for acknowledging and ending Scientology abuses. Let us hope that he will soon join Paul Haggis in doing so.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nDanielle Berrin and director Paul Ratner have a history. She wrote a profile on him<\/a>which Jewish blogger Luke Ford called “her best article yet<\/a>.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nRatner put the moves on her. Luke Ford expands on what Danielle has called her sordid past<\/a> with Ratner. Danielle and Brett have buried the hatchet<\/a>. Here is a picture of them together at last year’s Wiesenthal Center’s award dinner.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Photo credit: The Jewish Journal<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damian DeWitt blogs: Danielle Berrin at the Jewish Journal spoke with SWC Board Member, film director Brett Ratner. Ratner said: \u201cTom Cruise cannot be responsible for an entire religion,\u201d film director Brett Ratner, who sits on the Wiesenthal\u2019s board of trustees said … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[593,26269],"tags":[10906,26112,13786,20207,822,26270],"class_list":["post-32409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientology","category-tom-cruise-2","tag-berrin","tag-david-miscavige","tag-director-brett-ratner","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-luke-ford","tag-paul-haggis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32410,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32409\/revisions\/32410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}