
Scientology Religion
May 25, 2020
Blamers Gonna Blame
Whenever someone claiming to be a former Scientologist writes something disparaging about our church, one telling thing pops...
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May 25, 2020
Whenever someone claiming to be a former Scientologist writes something disparaging about our church, one telling thing pops...
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May 25, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether the State of Montana can prevent the use of public funds for any educational...
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May 24, 2020
Author’s Note: For years, the National Enquirer has taken shots at Scientology and at other religions, benevolent organizations,...
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May 14, 2020
In just about every society on earth, we humans are handed nothing but limits from the time we are born. The limits of popular...
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May 11, 2020
The couple’s public statement is a shot across the bow at a disturbing trend that has become the new normal over recent...
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May 8, 2020
The article contained no controversy, no sensationalism, no drama, and most of all, no bias. How refreshing to view something...
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May 2, 2020
We sat in front of the rabbi that day in 1977, my wife and I, a bit sheepishly explaining how we had run off and gotten married...
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May 1, 2020
The fear and suspicion of the sudden influx of foreigners in general and Irish-Catholics in particular spawned a political...
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April 22, 2020
If someone were to make a list of the top 10 least funny things, “bigotry” would undoubtedly make the cut. There’s very...
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April 10, 2020
A bill currently pending in the Ohio state legislature has resulted in statements that, if it becomes law, students would...
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April 9, 2020
The simple truth is that Mike Rinder makes his living fomenting bigotry and hate against the group whose standards he failed...
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April 3, 2020
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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April 1, 2020
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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April 1, 2020
A violent, unstable and self-confessed liar and kleptomaniac, Lindstein joined the Scientology religious order thirty-some...
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March 29, 2020
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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March 17, 2020
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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March 15, 2020
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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March 8, 2020
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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March 2, 2020
Turns out they were attending a meeting of Baptist pastors at the hotel. Once we straightened out our respective denominational...
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February 19, 2020
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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February 7, 2020
It was one of those moments in which every single second seems to last a painful eternity.
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