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Published on Tuesday 18th March 2008
After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America’s most controversial religion finally met its match?
Clearwater is prepared for its enemies. It’s a warm, if overcast, Saturday in February, but all the storefronts lining the sidewalks of this sleepy town on […]
Source: Radar Magazine
Published on Thursday 14th February 2008
I was skimming through High Winds when I came across an article winningly headlined ‘Handling Suppression on the Fourth Dynamic’ (by then I had learnt that the ‘fourth dynamic’ meant the whole of mankind). In a tone of unforgiving militancy, it talked of ‘eradicating SPs’, and crowed about how they had ’shut down’ one particular defector who had criticised the movement. ‘Unemployed and abandoned by his family, this squirrel had schemed to make money by hawking his lies in a book. But the Office of Special Affairs had a court declare his book libellous. He has now been forced into bankruptcy…’
Source: The Telegraph
Published on Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last year the Cheers foil donated $5m to the Church of Scientology. That’s more than big tippers Priscilla Presley ($50,000), or John Travolta ($1m), and nudges her ahead of Scientology’s poster boy, Tom Cruise, who donated the same amount over four years.
But all of them have been dwarfed by a contribution from a celebrity more famous and loved than any of them: Bart Simpson.
It’s upsetting enough that the Fresh Prince has been reportedly handing out Scientology personality tests to his film crew, but it has emerged that the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, once the idiot savant voice of reason in a world gone screamingly wacko, donated $10m to the Church in 2007.
Source: The Guardian
Published on Sunday 20th January 2008
In July, 1968, following a governmental review, the Minister of Health told Parliament that the organisation “alienates members of families from each other” and had “authoritarian principles and practices” that were a “potential menace to the personality and well being of those so deluded as to become its followers”.
Source: The Times
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Published on Wednesday 5th December 2007
Will Smith has admitted he has been learning about Scientology from Tom Cruise - but insists he hasn’t been converted.
In an interview in Men’s Vogue the Hollywood actor, 38, compares Scientology, created by sciencefiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, with the Bible.
Source: The Mirror
