PseudoScientology

Isn’t Scientology for everyone?

Probably not, if you take L. Ron Hubbard’s prejudices as “scripture.” After all, he IS the ultimate HOLY MAN.

The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world — he is probably impossible by any human standard.
… L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization). (more…)

Corporations named in Scientology video respond

Web Scout was intrigued by the idea that major corporations around the world might be part of a vast network of dissemination for Scientology-related literature and booklets. So I made a couple of calls to the communications departments of companies named in the latest leaked video. Here’s what they’re saying:

More. (from the LA Times blog)

See original Times post here, transcript here, video here. (more…)

The Passion of ‘Anonymous’

By Brian Braiker - Newsweek

A shadowy, loose-knit consortium of activists and hackers called ‘Anonymous‘ is just the latest thorn in Scientology’s side.

These are unfriendly times to be a Scientologist. In December, Germany’s Interior Ministry moved to ban the organization, which has tax-exempt religious status in the United States. In January, St. Martin’s Press published Andrew Morton’s salacious unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, which describes the star as its de facto second in command. The church responded with a 15-page statement, calling the book “a bigoted, defamatory assault replete with lies” and saying Cruise “is a Scientology parishioner and holds no official or unofficial position in the Church hierarchy.” Jenna Hill Miscavige, a niece of church leader David Miscavige who left the fold in 2005, this week came out in support of Morton and slammed the organization for, among other things, its practice of “disconnection“–essentially severing contact with family members seen as hostile to the group.

More.

ABC/Ted Koppel-David Miscavige Interview Transcript

Scientology’s Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt

By DOUGLAS FRANTZ
New York Times
March 9, 1997

On Oct. 8, 1993, 10,000 cheering Scientologists thronged the Los Angeles Sports Arena to celebrate the most important milestone in the church’s recent history: victory in its all-out war against the Internal Revenue Service. (more…)