the Fakebook site now shows 269,809 LIKES. That’s an increase of some 3,000 within just 2 days:

(https://www.facebook.com/churchofscientology)

(*CoB = Cult of Bucks or Cult of Bullshit. Take your pick).

YES! Flyonthewall you hit the nail on the head and said it well. It isn’t just that the sheeple and whales who give money are hurting themselves. Look what the money buys: private eyes to harass people and carry guns for who knows what purpose, smear campaigns to tear up families through disconnection, they hurt neighborhoods when they let their buildings bought for Ideal Orgs go into ruin because they can’t raise the money to rehab them, resulting in graffiti and bums squatting there. And think of the tax revenue the city is missing from all the real estate because “the church is exempt from paying taxes…” , (don’t even get me started on how a business convinced the IRS they were a church!). And downtown Clearwater and Tampa… what a shame that the church pulled strings and paid off officials so that the Aquarium would be voted down. The dying downtown needs an Aquarium to generate tourists and the money they bring. Yet the church didn’t want it and did all sorts of behind the scenes dirty tricks to prevent a good thing from happening. So when you think that people giving money to the church hurt only themselves, think again, the ripple effect is quite staggering.

An important factor though is that this money is used to hurt people. Not just the stalking and harassment but tearing families apart with disconnection. Then there is the wider problem of blighting neighborhoods with their decrepit idle morgues and not paying badly needed taxes. Downtown Clearwater could be bustling place but instead it’s a ghost town and a freakshow. They also pervert the justice system with their religious cloaking and undermine freedom of speech with their attacks on the media.

The ripple effects of taking money from the sheeple are wide and deep

Richard Grant, “…It also seems perfectly consistent with Dave Miscavige’s vision of an Ideal Church, which is pretty much like Miss Trunchbull’s vision of an ideal school in Roald Dahl’s “Matilda”:

“My idea of a perfect school … is one that has no children in it at all.”

Thank you for that blast from the past I loved that movie and so did my kids. Great analogy.

It also seems perfectly consistent with Dave Miscavige’s vision of an Ideal Church, which is pretty much like Miss Trunchbull’s vision of an ideal school in Roald Dahl’s “Matilda”:

“My idea of a perfect school … is one that has no children in it at all.”

Where, on the Tone Scale is “buying likes?”

A Potemkin religion.