Scientology Revelations

[Wolfstrike]

Can you really imagine Tom Cruise spending his millionaire Sundays in a church, or better yet, attending some goofy Scientology meeting?

Can you really imagine Tom Cruise being able to convert his famous wives into Scientologists?

Can you really imagine a actress like Leah Remini telling her New York Jewish family she's a scientologist now?
"oh the one with the UFOs hiding under the volcanoes?"
"Yeah that's the one! ...i'm that now"


With the number of minor starts who now claim to be Scientologists, it must be well known in Hollywood, that if you drive over to the spooky castle they'll give you money to say you believe in that crap.

What a freaking lack of respect for your fans to take money from the church of scientology, and tell people you believe in that bullsht.
Telling your fans to go to hell, literally.

 

[waltky]

Guess Putin ain't a Scientologist...

Russian security forces raid Church of Scientology
June 7, 2017 -- The Russian Federal Security Bureau raided a Church of Scientology office in St. Petersburg, calling it an effort to uncover information about religious extremism.

"Searches are being conducted in connection to the criminal case concerning illegal entrepreneurship, incitement to hatred and the establishment of an extremist association," a source told the Russian news agency, TASS. The raid comes about one year after the FSB raided several locations in St. Petersburg connected to the Church of Scientology due to allegations of "illegal business dealings." The Russian government has previously ruled that, because it is not recognized as a religion, proselytizing is a form of money laundering. The church, a controversial religious group founded in the United States that is derided by some as a cult, has long been at legal odds with the Russian government.

Police during a search of the premises by investigators at Scientology Church In Moscow last June.​

In 2015, a Moscow court ruled that the group cannot be considered a religion because its name is trademarked in the United States and prohibited it from engaging in its religious activities. "When decisions like this are handed down, actually everyone loses, and this decision affects not only the Church of Scientology of Moscow. This decision is a sign of disease in the justice system," the group's Moscow branch said in a statement. But the legal entanglements go back even further.

According to court documents from the International Center for Non-Profit Law, the Church of Scientology first opened its doors in Russia in 1994. But in 1998, the Moscow Justice Department required religious organizations to re-register with the government and refused to grant the Church of Scientology its religious organization status. Since then, there has a steady back and forth of legal pushes between the two entities and the Church of Scientology is now considered an "extremist" group by the Russian government. In April, Russia's Supreme Court outlawed Jehovah's Witnesses, declaring that an extremist organization and banned its 175,000 adherents from congregating on Russian territory.

Russian security forces raid Church of Scientology