Religious Literacy
August 15, 2018
In the World of Crisis Headlines, Is Philosophy a Waste of Time?
Philosophy is one of those topics that seems to belong in some ivy-covered building being discussed by men in vests who punctuate...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 26, 2018
The Rabbi and the Bigot—A Story of Redemption
A few days later, the Rabbi found a package on his front walk containing anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi pamphlets and a card reading:...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 27, 2018
Religion in Comedy—Where Do We Draw the Line?
When you want to bring up a faith that’s not your own, you better know what you’re talking about. You better be accurate,...
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Media & Ethics
June 13, 2018
The Honest View of Scientology
What’s more, the high IQ free-thinker is much more likely to become curious about the effort by vested interests to drag...
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Religious Literacy
June 1, 2018
Look, Don’t Listen
Everyone knows the heart pumps blood in the human body, circulating it throughout the system over and over. Right? In the...
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Scientology Religion
May 24, 2018
What Scientologists Are REALLY Up To
While I have been Jewish all my life, for the last 12 years I have added Scientology to my religious resumé. In practicing...
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Scientology Religion
May 2, 2018
The Best Thing In The World
Life is the essential raw material of artists—be they sculptors, performers, painters, writers, directors, or whichever—they...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 1, 2018
Confessions of a Bigot
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...
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Media & Ethics
April 21, 2018
They Didn’t Add the “R”
I realized that I could not always believe what I read, just because it appeared in a “respected” media source, by a “respected”...
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Scientology Religion
April 13, 2018
The Self-Evident Truth of Scientology
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as...
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Scientology Religion
April 12, 2018
The Brilliance of Scientology
For most of us, our cell phone is a thing of wonder and mystery. We don’t know how it works, we only know it does. Well,...
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Religious Freedom
April 1, 2018
The Ultimate Act of Defiance
Too often, man has seen rebellion as simply the opportunity to “do unto others as you believe they have done unto you.”...
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Scientology Religion
March 1, 2018
A STAND Against Today’s False Prophets: Psychiatrists
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their...
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Scientology Religion
February 21, 2018
Scientology: What’s in a Name?
Ron was discussing methods of determining sanity. He described sanity in a number of ways but the simplest was noting the...
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Scientology Religion
February 16, 2018
Observe The Truth For Yourself!
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...
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Scientology Religion
February 6, 2018
Me, Before and After Scientology
Scientology has given me the key to embracing life as an exciting adventure, not something to endure or hide from. Priceless.
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Religious Literacy
February 5, 2018
A Scientologist Wants to Leave a Great Legacy—How About You?
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...
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Religious Literacy
January 10, 2018
It’s Time to Shed the Stigma of “Organized Religion”
I’ve heard people speak of organized religion rather distastefully. Organized government takeover or organized guerrilla...
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Scientology Religion
January 2, 2018
The Truth—and Lies—About Scientology
When I was eighteen, I was working the cash register of the family grocery store when a gentleman walked in holding a brown...
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Religious Literacy
December 12, 2017
Religion: What’s the Point?
Religion is like marriage: there’s so much to criticize about it, yet people still want to tie the knot. Marriage is designed...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 25, 2017
The Difference Between Haters and Heroes
How many years has it been since a madman, under the guise of ridding the world of “undesirables” created a war that destroyed...
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Scientology Religion
October 16, 2017
Life After Death—What Scientology Did for Me
It became apparent she was fighting for life, not for herself, but so her family would not have to suffer her death. Realizing...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 15, 2017
What “Everybody Knows” Actually Isn’t True
If even I, a young child, could tell that these things that “everybody knew” were simple and obvious lies, how could grown-ups...
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Scientology Religion
September 26, 2017
The “Secret” Practice of Scientology
He was hoping for some weird, juicy secret stuff from an insider but I had to disappoint him. Nothing there to tell. After...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 16, 2017
Apostates: My Personal Encounters
Using apostates to spread religious intolerance is not a new tactic, but in the age of the internet and life-as-entertainment,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 14, 2017
How it Felt to Be Treated Like a Nazi
When I was in third grade, I had a teacher who despised me. It wasn't because of anything I'd done to her, and it wasn't that...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 23, 2017
Why Stuart Wright is Wrong
I just read about Stuart Wright, the neo-Nazi hater of Jews, and God knows who else, who vandalized synagogues, and I’d...
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Religious Freedom
March 12, 2017
Don’t Joke, Look!
By Evan Wecksell I live in Los Angeles, a city with the highest concentration of Scientologists in the world.
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