Scientology Religion
April 3, 2020
How the Whole Earth Catalog Primed Me for Scientology
When I moved from a small town in upstate New York to the San Francisco Bay area at the age of 11, I found myself at the beginning...
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Religious Freedom
April 1, 2020
Contagion of Faith
And now just a few short weeks later, all of us suddenly find ourselves searching for faith elsewhere than where the signs...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
April 1, 2020
The Truth About Mariette Lindstein Is a Lot More Interesting
A violent, unstable and self-confessed liar and kleptomaniac, Lindstein joined the Scientology religious order thirty-some...
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Religious Freedom
March 29, 2020
The Real Deal With Disconnection
A friend of mine who lived among the native Inuits of far Northern Canada told me that if a person in the community, through...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 17, 2020
Religious Stigma Isn’t Created by Your Neighbors
A poll found that 82% of Americans feel that it is very important for Christians to be allowed to practice freely, while only...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 15, 2020
Let’s Take Out the Garbage, Like Tony Ortega
The very bottom of the money-making barrel, in my mind, would be selling drugs or people. I don’t know whether Ortega has...
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Scientology Religion
March 8, 2020
Setting High-Schoolers Straight on Scientology
I never heard about Scientology when I was in high school. Most likely because news didn’t travel so fast back when I was...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 2, 2020
Fighting the Erosion of Religious Freedom
Turns out they were attending a meeting of Baptist pastors at the hotel. Once we straightened out our respective denominational...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 19, 2020
Beware the False Prophets of Profit
Dr. Singer is long dead now, gone to whatever religion’s Hell will deign to accept her. But she has her disciples who carry...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 7, 2020
My Pianist
It was one of those moments in which every single second seems to last a painful eternity.
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Scientology Religion
February 7, 2020
The Naysayers and the Critics
You are talking to a percentage of the population that would hate YOU if you caught their attention enough.
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Religious Literacy
February 7, 2020
Theophobia 101, Part II: Theophobia Goes Global
Well, is religion that dangerous or irrelevant? Should we consider being evangelical about the gospel of Nothingness? Shall...
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Media & Ethics
February 6, 2020
What Stops Us From Hoping
It got me thinking: who actually works at tabloids like that? What are their story pitch meetings like? Do they know that...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 4, 2020
Next Stop: Tolerance
This is how it played out: At around midday on November 22, a passenger sitting in the train pulled out his phone to film...
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Media & Ethics
February 3, 2020
The Cult Recipe
I actually saw this question in an online forum the other day: “If I wanted to start my own cult, how would I do it?”...
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Religious Literacy
January 26, 2020
My Seasonal Pilgrimage: Coming Together, Coming Home
No one’s religion was cause for offense. No difference in color, social standing, job or education impacted the way we interacted.
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Scientology Religion
January 25, 2020
Don’t Scientologists Believe in Mental Illness?
The thing that Scientologists take issue with is the lack of science behind so much of the psychiatric community’s categorizations...
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Scientology Religion
January 21, 2020
New Year’s Resolutions Fail: Scientology Can Help
Sometimes the bar isn’t set very high, like the year my son said that his primary objective for the next 12 months was to...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 16, 2020
Who Loses When Scientology Wins?
Last week I had an unusual phone conversation with a client I’m doing some screenplay rewrite work for. He was somewhere...
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