Scientology Pwnd By New York Times
Job Description….
Come work for the church of Scientology. We offer job security with a 
billion year contract. Great pay of around $50 per week. Long hours and sleep deprivation so you don’t get tempted to think for yourself. Plus you get to feel the love of lord Xenu.
New York Times story of people leaving the church of scientology. A couple spent 13 years of slave labor for the Church. When they tried to get out – things got worse.
“Why did we work so hard for this organization,” Ms. Collbran said, “and why did it feel so wrong in the end? We just didn’t understand.”
Not only does scientology employ slave labor they also beat people that get out of line and hold people in prison if they express a desire to leave. The church says that the former members are lying. Well… we know that religious organizations never lie.
The church stays alive on this slave labor and huge funds from movie stars. Recently, some stars have started to leave. The winner of an Oscar for “Million Dollar Baby”, Paul Haggis left after 35 years in the sea org. You can read his resignation letter here.
But I reached a point several weeks ago where I no longer knew what to think. You had allowed our name to be allied with the worst elements of the Christian Right. In order to contain a potential “PR flap” you allowed our sponsorship of Proposition 8 to stand. Despite all the church’s words about promoting freedom and human rights, its name is now in the public record alongside those who promote bigotry and intolerance, homophobia and fear.
And this part on the policy of disconnection….
I was online doing research and chanced upon an interview clip with you on CNN. The interview lasted maybe ten minutes – it was just you and the newscaster. And in it I saw you deny the church’s policy of disconnection. You said straight-out there was no such policy, that it did not exist.
I was shocked. We all know this policy exists. I didn’t have to search for verification – I didn’t have to look any further than my own home.
You might recall that my wife was ordered to disconnect from her parents because of something absolutely trivial they supposedly did twenty-five years ago when they resigned from the church. This is a lovely retired couple, never said a negative word about Scientology to me or anyone else I know – hardly raving maniacs or enemies of the church. In fact it was they who introduced my wife to Scientology.
Although it caused her terrible personal pain, my wife broke off all contact with them. I refused to do so. I’ve never been good at following orders, especially when I find them morally reprehensible.
For a year and a half, despite her protestations, my wife did not speak to her parents and they had limited access to their grandchild. It was a terrible time.
The church of scientology claims to have millions of members but the American Religious Identification Survey show membership has dropped from 55,000 in 2001 to 25,000 in 2008.
How do you get out?
If you want to leave they make your life hell and they have you do special auditing sessions to convince you to stay. If you just up and leave you are an SP. That is a suppressive person. No one is allowed to talk to you. You can lose all of your friends and family in the blink of any eye.
Mr. Davis, the church’s current spokesman, said Scientologists are no different from Mormons, Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Amish who practice shunning or excommunication.
That is true – and they are all WRONG! This is just a mind game and we should not allow any group to do it.
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