Infiltrating Scientology Ep 1: Sunday Church Service

(Part 1 of 10) of "The World's Best Scientology Documentary Ever"
(New episode every Monday)

What is a Sunday "church service" like at the most expensive church in the world? It's not as glamorous as you'd think.
The Sunday service in this video is just one of the ridiculous reasons that Scientology can call themselves a "church." Michael and I were interested when we heard that they believe their alien God Xenu had banished us to earth. We decided to go and check it out for ourselves before judging them.

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[stonedwookie]

Seems like scientology is just an expensive game of Simon says.

[eltontaylor]

Constantly repeating commands for things that you're already doing is conditioning you to obey orders. You're subconsciously following these commands and it normalizes following them. Sneaky sneaky, Zenu.

[snowyy.]

The fact that the best Scientology documentary and footage of all time comes from two college frat bros kills me. You two are amazing

[ArtistJoshuaWeigand]

Never realized the church of scientology was opposed to amputees

[fionapaterson-wiebe]

Church service must be rough for amputees.

[Sintanity]

This is. Completely terrifying. I am honestly grateful to the editing for making this palatable because if i was in there. I would need to leave immediately

[Offmedication]

For a cult so paranoid and security-obsessed, you'd think they'd notice camera-glasses  almost immediately. They stoopid.

[yobench]

I'm sitting in a chair, wearing a head and having two feet
I'm afraid I might be a scientologist!

[vanesszabertalan]

This actually scared me. Pure hypnosis, some may think it sounds funny but for me it was extremely stressful just to even watch it.

[zambimaru]

It was really creepy when the lady became interested in the Glasses. Shows how paranoid they are.

[homeschooledrapper]

There's no way I'd be able to sit in that room and not just die from laughing within the first 30 seconds

[kaylag]

They're conditioning you to think "well of course I'll do that" or "that just makes sense" when they tell you to do something.
It's sort of like muscle memory for just your brain.

[thecreativemastermin]

What they're doing aren't any communication exercises, that's a persuasion exercise. By asking you to repeat and follow basic instructions, they're PRIMING you to follow anything and everything they say. That's basically hypnotising to be their servant. It sounds funny to most of us because we have a good life and we have self respect. But for those who have absolutely nothing, this is hypnosis. This sounds harmless to them but it's actually the beginning of indoctrination that will follow where they'll be brainwashed to discard all their core beliefs and be mindless drones of David Miscavige

[alysiamerdavid-wasser]

*"Are you investigating Buddhism?"* said no one EVER at my former temple, lol.

[roundhouse]

Bro the ‘Sunday service’ thing was literally just hypnosis. Like the chair thing was just a hypnotic induction. Holy shit.

[MythicalPhoebe]

the fact that they're asking if you plan to investigate scientology is a red flag straight up.

[zarairsoft]

Was kinda waiting for him to say CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH NOW Y’ALL

[wendylederer]

How did you guys pull this off? 😮 I can’t believe you got past all the security checks! They don’t let just anyone walk up in there.

[RemiAnchor]

Some days I don't feel like wearing a head.

[nunyabuisnessmill]

I absolutely love that the category for this video is “sports”