There is no freedom from religion, when ex-members are forced by US courts to submit to the church’s religious arbitration rituals.

There is no freedom from religion, when whistleblowers are subject to constant surveillance and harassment by the church’s Office of Special Affairs and affiliated goon squads.

The US already considers the church’s institutional “religious rights” to be senior to the individual rights of both current and former members. Europe is clearly the next target.

The Scientology cult hires academics and religious experts to write flowery praiseworthy papers to legitimize them.
These are hired guns for propaganda. They are trying to influence legislators and the law courts to favor Scientology and other cults

Timestamps:
1:00 Massimo Introvigne, a lawyer and “academic” who is paid to write Scientology propaganda puffing about the goodness and credibility of the cult. $$$$$$$$$$$$$
1:30 Massimo and others have learned to make good money working for cults and appearang as Expert Witnesses in Court on their religiosity
3:00 It is a HIGH crime which could lead to excommunication for reporting crimes to Law enforcement.. It is in their doctrines. And they are currently denying it in recent law suits. Laughter.
3:40 Massimo has written over 70 essays raising the cult without ever getting into the kidnaps, held against will issues, done even to this day
(These apologists try to delete the word CULT and replace it with “New Religious Movement”
More to learn on Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Vco0pY_jo

As they circle the drain for the last time before going down the plughole, they yell loudly about how they are leading the way into a brighter future for all of Mankind.

Yeah right.

In reality, scientology couldn’t care less about how other faiths are treated in nations where the cult doesn’t exist.
What concerns them is what is happening in Europe about scn and the current Italian government (considered by many quite fascistic oriented), so they are taking preemptive measures.

In my opinion, it doesn’t require further elaborate interpretations.

“In totalitarian and authoritarian countries, religious groups and individual believers literally struggle for their lives, which is the indispensable precondition to enjoy the first political human right, i.e., religious liberty.”

And what about totalitarian and authoritarian “religions”/ cults? Do folks “struggle for their lives” in these? Are their liberties infringed upon to the point where they have to escape and will not even be left in peace after they do? Is their “religious liberty” to opt in or out of a religion respected?

It’s equally curious that when discussing the history of their meeting location, the writer failed to see the irony in the following: “A number of controversial scandals hit the Congregation in the late 20th century, drastically reducing its numbers and vocations, until in 1997 its Generalate in Rome was closed.” Does he really want to go there when the current occupant of the building is typically referred to as “scientology, the controversial religion”? And speaking of drastically reduced numbers…

But the “journalist” needn’t worry. His myopic focus on the building, his appeal to the authority of the incredible experts coopted and his almost complete avoidance of mentioning what they were actually doing at the event (if anything) should give him plausible deniability that he even wrote this article himself.

A Google search:
https://novus2.com/righteouscause/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Conference-via-Google.png

The fact remains that Scientology’s world influence never makes its appearance on any mainstream media news sites … it is purely manufactured as “Public Relations” like everything else created within the world of Scientology, from its bogus “Freedom Magazine” to “Stand League” to “Narconon” to “Youth for Human Rights International” or any of its other hundreds of insidious front groups.

“Press Releases” usually come from the source, EIN Presswire (here’s a sample of how they favor Scientology):
https://tinyurl.com/44ttxd4s

Another interesting observation can be made from the BitterWinterMagazine X/Twitter account … here’s a screen shot of their post announcing the “Conference” yesterday: 5 “Likes,” 3 “Retweets,” and 1 comment (a real barn burner):
https://novus2.com/righteouscause/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BitterWinter.png

Any mention of a Scientology “Rome Conference May 30, 2024” ANYWHERE? Not that Google knows about:
https://tinyurl.com/4yscns28

And since the entire network of Scientology “news” organizations is so disjointed and poorly run, not even the “European Office Church of Scientology for Public Affairs and Human Rights” has mention of the conference on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/scientologyeurope/

Or on the European Office main website:
https://www.europeanaffairs.eu/

Nope.

How about Scientology Europe’s Twitter account?
https://x.com/ScientologyEU

Nope.

Stand League Newsroom?
https://www.standleague.org/newsroom/news/

Nope.

That’s all the time I have for this. The point has been made.