Tom Cruise and His Scientology Video

A video of Tom Cruise discussing Scientology briefly surfaced and was then deleted from YouTube yesterday. The video, which showed Tom Cruise accepting a 2005 Freedom Medal of Valor from the Church of Scientology, was allegedly pulled from YouTube at the urging of the Church of Scientology. In the video, Cruise talked about the founder L. Ron Hubbard's teachings, the Church of Scientology, KSW, SP, and more, and the intended audience members were scientologists.

In the video, Tom says that he thinks, "it's a privilege to call yourself a scientologist, and it's something you have to earn." He goes on to say that a scientologist has the ability to "create new and better realities and improved conditions". The video continues in this manner--with Cruise talking and laughing about the importance of being a scientologist, the fact that scientologists should do and be involved, and the idea that scientologists can help the world. The video was approximately ten minutes long, and scientologists were clearly the intended audience. The video didn't intend to convince others to turn to Scientology, but rather, to speak to scientologists about their duties and his experiences.

Tom went on to to talk about how he sees his role to KSW, or "Keep Scientology Working." The phrase was coined by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Internet sources, often those that call the Church of Scientology a cult, refer to the ten principles that Hubbard insists are necessary to keep Scientology working. and urge its members to stick clear his teachings. Cruise mentions in the video how he sees it as his role to help people as a scientologist because they are the only people who can. He urges the scientologists who were supposedly the intended audience not to just say, but to do. He says that he "won't hesitate to put ethics on someone else, because I put it ruthlessly on myself."