Volunteer Ministers
Volunteer Ministers is an international aid organization that volunteers Scientology clergy. According to the teaching of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, it should "stop and reverse the decline of the world". According to Scientology, it has 15,000 volunteers all over the world.
history
The Volunteer Ministers were founded in the USA in 1976 and have also been active in Germany since 1991 . According to their own account, volunteer ministers have been involved in numerous disasters and major disasters, including the flood disaster of 2002 and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake .
The distinguishing feature of the Volunteer Ministers is the color yellow, which is reflected in the uniforms of the relatives with yellow T-shirts and jackets and yellow tents.
criticism
In the context of the flood disaster, the emergency chaplaincy warned that Volunteer Ministers were trying to recruit other volunteers for Scientology. Something similar could also be observed during the rampage in Erfurt and the plane disaster in Überlingen .
Even Stephen A. Kent reports similar to the inserts of the Volunteer Ministers. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , Scientology set up a national telephone hotline called National Mental Health Assistance , which was often confused with the recognized National Mental Health Association . At the same time, Volunteer Ministers appeared at the scene of the disaster, whose primary aim was to provide Scientology techniques to the shaken workers and families instead of traditional psychological and psychiatric help and advice. The Volunteer Ministers also wanted to displace professional psychiatrists and psychologists in other disaster areas.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hubbard, "Volunteer Ministers," HCO Policy Letter February 22, 1991
- ↑ Between Malmö, Munich and Madrid in: Freedom , published by the Church of Scientology
- ↑ Professor on the wrong track in: Der Spiegel, October 27, 2003
- ↑ Yellow is the color of the help in: Freedom No. 4/2005 , published by the Church of Scientology ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sect Commissioner: Scientologists try to exploit flood disaster. (No longer available online.) In: notfallseelsorge.de. August 27, 2002, archived from the original on March 30, 2015 ; Retrieved December 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stephen A. Kent, Terra A. Manca: A war over mental health professionalism: Scientology versus psychiatry . In: Mental Health, Religion & Culture . tape 17 , no. 1 , December 4, 2016, p. 1–23 , doi : 10.1080 / 13674676.2012.737552 , PMC 3856510 (free full text).
