Scientologists don't like it if you leave. Even if you leave quietly. There is a saying adherents fondly quote: "The way out is the way through." Deep thoughts passed on by decade-dead megalomaniacal psychopath Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, in whose writings church followers find a labyrinth so complex, so full of elitist jargon and weird science that those trapped in it cannot see that the way out is the way through—the fucking door.
So, of course I had to join...
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Boing Boing, it's Mark Ebner's classic 1996 exposé on the Church of Scientology and its extreme attempts to silence critics.
I believe we've discussed Scientology before.# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 4:58 PM
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