AUTHOR
Bernard Percy
Author, educator, international lecturer, proud dad of three adult daughters, husband (for 45 years), and a Scientologist (since 1968). He has had eight books published on education and family relationships; he was a New York City elementary school teacher for 12 years and he has a master's degree in childhood education from Columbia University.
TOLERANCE
But the only “knowledge” I had came from a “news” story about the marriage ceremony. I had never personally visited the church, read anything about it, or even met anyone who was a member.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
Fellow says, ‘What is the reason for life?’ Oddly enough, the apparent answer to the thing... if he wants a very finite, basic reason, is to help people. That’s apparently a fundamental reason for existence.
TOLERANCE
The question becomes: how can we maintain and express our deep-seated religious beliefs and practices without becoming intolerant of those who do not share, or possibly oppose them? The answer to this is expressed by L. Ron Hubbard in his nonreligious book called The Way to Happiness:
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
On the final approach to New York’s La Guardia airport at 8:40 a.m. we flew over the World Trade Center. I was marveling at its beauty and the New York City skyline. Eight minutes later, the world was tragically changed.
MEDIA & ETHICS
I realized that I could not always believe what I read, just because it appeared in a “respected” media source, by a “respected” journalist.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
So many relationships fall into an “I am right—you are wrong” argument-and-struggle level of communication.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
I was born in 1943, too young to experience World War II. I am Jewish and as I grew older I learned about the Holocaust and the atrocities of the Germans during the time of the Nazis.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
A legacy I want to be known for is that I helped others believe in the basic goodness of man, and that I helped others to escape from behavior patterns that did not align with their basic goodness.
TOLERANCE
How many times have you tried to change someone’s mind about something by indicating where they were wrong? Did that work for them or for you?
TOLERANCE
In the late summer and fall of 1969 there was a great deal of hostility and discrimination between the Black and White communities in New York City. The general level of communication was resentful or antagonistic among strangers from each.
