Subject:	Juggernaut
Author:	keshet <keshet@cyberpass.net>
Date:	2000/03/15
Forum:	alt.religion.scientology
Msg-ID:	<8an3000le2p @enews1.newsguy.com>

I was fortunate (?) enough to see a copy of the program for Scientology's New Year's Event. Pretty standard fare, with a sports arena seating diagram, street map, list of tours available, and schedule of events (including a Sunday Service with the Reverend Heber Jentzsch and a concert with Isaac Hayes & The Dukes of Soul).

On page 7, "Sign the Commitment to a Scientology Millennium", the following appears:

We are on our way to clear a planet and free a world population. With the advent of the year 2000, we intend to create a true Scientology juggernaut and make this — LRH's postulate — a firm reality.

To create that juggernaut you are invited to sign a commitment pledging your adherence to the Code of a Scientologist and the intention to making this new millennium — the Scientology Millennium.

"Juggernaut" caught my attention. The word is derived from the title of the Hindu deity Krishna, whose idol is drawn on a huge cart in an annual procession. At one time it was (mistakenly) thought that fanatics would throw themselves under the wheels to be crushed, as a sacrifice to the god. Thus, the definition (from the American Heritage dictionary):

Something, such as a belief or an institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed; an overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path.

Scientology "crushingly" defined in its own words.

Keshet

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