Scientology is an American body of teachings developed by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It's a particularly controversial movement, as many former members of the Church of Scientology have claimed its practices are coercive and...
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Scientology is an American body of teachings developed by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It's a particularly controversial movement, as many former members of the Church of Scientology have claimed its practices are coercive and isolating. Celebrity Scientologists include Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and many others.
A blog about the fiction books and novels by L. Ron Hubbard, where you can find videos with book trailers as well as video clips about live theatrical performances in the style of old time radio. L. Ron Hubbard wrote in multiple genres ... Read Full Story
Golden Age Stories Parade Float Featured Actors Martin Kove and Phil Proctor Aboard 'Golden Age Express' in Hollywood Christmas Parade
Galaxy Press, book publishers for the Golden Age Stories pulp fiction series by bestselling author L. Ron Hubbard, took part in the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade with actors Martin Kove and Phil Proctor on the L. Ron Hubbard Stories from the Golden Age parade float, along with dancers and pulp fiction characters from the Golden Age Stories books... Read Full Story
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced "concerns" about the Church of Scientology Wednesday after a senator detailed explosive allegations including torture, imprisonment and coerced abortions. Rudd said the accusations, made by independent Senator Nick Xenophon in parliament late Tuesday but strenuously denied by the organisation, were "grave" and needed further consideration. "Many people in Australia have real concerns about Scientology. I share some of those concerns," the prime... Read Full Story
Red Orchid Lets Religious Absurdity Loose
A Red Orchid Theatre presents:
A Very Merry Children’s Scientology Pageant
By Kyle Jarrow from a concept by Alex Timbers Directed by Steve Wilson Music Direction by Brandon Magid thru January 3, 2010 ( ticket info )
reviewed by Paige Listerud
It’s only November, but if you are already tired of virgin births, wise men led by stars, angels singing to shepherds or animals talking in mangers, then A Red Orchid Theatre ’s remount of A Very... Read Full Story
The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season. Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just another bad press week for the embattled institution founded in 1953 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. But for former Scientologists and scholars of the movement, the setbacks pose a greater... Read Full Story
The Australian EVEN for a religion started by a science fiction writer, the allegations levelled against the Church of Scientology in federal parliament this week sound stranger than fiction. Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled out among the 53 pages of allegations by seven former Scientologists - some of whom had climbed high in the church hierarchy - tabled in the Senate. In what the church has decried as "an outrageous abuse of... Read Full Story
A French court fined the Church of Scientology on Tuesday for defrauding vulnerable followers, but officials voiced regret that a recent change in the law prevented France from banning it outright. Scientology's Celebrity Centre and its bookshop in Paris, the two branches of its French operations, were ordered to pay 600,000 euros (900,000 dollars) in fines for preying financially on its followers in the 1990s. Alain Rosenberg, the French leader of a movement best known for its Hollywood... Read Full Story
There is currently an “epidemic” of rape by psychiatrists, according to officials of Scientolog y front group “Citizens Commission on Human Rights” (sic), or CCHR. In addition, the officials assert that psychiatrists intentionally network their “pet” sex offenders, in lieu of treating them, so that the sex offenders can “compare notes,” and then form “terror cells” in ordinary communities. In the first part of a recently released video compiled from interviews on two Florida local cable... Read Full Story
Was Jesus a pedophile, filled with hatred and rage? That's what Scientology seems to say.
The authenticity of Scientology's "OT VIII: Confidential Student Briefing" document has been vehemently denied by Scientology. No wonder they would deny it -- this makes the Xenu story of OT III seem merely "odd." However, Scientology's denial of this document has a great deal in common with the cult's 30+ year denial of OT III.
"OT-VIII"-level people who have left the cult in the past 20 years... Read Full Story
Human rights activists worldwide are outraged to learn that in a new Scientology cult fundraising video, cult founder L. Ron Hubbard is described as a humanitarian and inspirational world leader on a par with Martin Luther King , Mother Teresa , Mahatma Gandhi , Eleanor Roosevelt , and Nelson Mandela . The video, designed to help raise funds for Scientology's Mountain View, California office to become an "Ideal Org," or massively luxurious new facility, has no narration, but features... Read Full Story
