Thanks to all for your friendship, continued support and contributions to this blog.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season.
I won’t be taking much, if any, time to moderate the blog. This evening and tomorrow are the most delightful and exciting time for the boys. I hope you too are sharing some joy with family and friends…
I wish there was a LOVE button <3
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the Mrs. and those adorable boys.
Happy holidays to you and yours Mike.
Sorry I’m late Mike (same thing yesterday – kid/family time) but I was so glad to see you getting to enjoy your family Christmas ? & focus on beautiful memories through that quality time together. You guys deserve this!
Hope you had an incredible day, and know that I and so many others are praying for your reconciliation w/your older kids! I can’t wait till the blog post you WILL have showing them with you guys too, because the work you’re doing is planting seeds & reaching their hearts… even if you don’t see it, yet!
Thanks for all that you do!
Merry Christmas to you and the family. Thanks for helping so many people and making lives a little better. Have a good one!
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thank you for all of the work you are doing to help people who are lost.
Merry Christmas to you and family. This is a gorgeous picture. Thank you for this blog.
And good blessings to all the great commenters here that I enjoy daily.
Thanks for this blog offering such opportunity to communicate about Scientology.
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family.
Merry Christmas to everyone or season’s greeting depending on your social preferences. Let’s hope the demise of the Cof$ occurs in 2018, be nice hey?
Merry Christmas everyone!
Mike and Christie – you have a beautiful family.
All the best for 2018
I’m so glad for you and your family that you are free of the cult. I’m inspired that you continue to expose the abuses of the cult. I know people have been saved by your efforts. Continued health and happiness and REAL freedom! THANK YOU and Happy Holidays!
Don’t comment often, but read everything. Merry Christmas Mike and family. Such persistence from you in bringing us news every day. This is sincerely appreciated. Thank you.
I’d like to thank Christie and the boys for sharing you with us, Mike. Thank you for your strong voice of reason. Because of people like you, I believe there’s hope we’ll bring this cult down. Bless your well deserved time off. Looking forward to 2018 and feeling hopeful.
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Thank you for sharing with all of us the latest Scientolgy updates and for exposing the truths.
Tony’s headline today says it best:
“Thetans Roasting on an Open Fire”!
The boys are growing up so fast…. take a break and enjoy your family. You deserve it and so do they.
A Merry and Blessed Christmas to you and all your family.
Merry Christmas Mike, to you, your family, and your extended family of friends and blog followers.
Happy Holidays to you, your family and your indomitable spirit. I’m sure I speak on behalf of the Children of Scientology how deeply grateful we are to find solidarity in the land of misfits; it is truly the greatest gift. Looking forward to yet another extraordinary year of healing in 2018.
Thanks for the blog, m’ wog. Don’t miss a day, nor a comment. Seems like ever since even before the first Leah Aftermath episode I can’t get enough of this – I think it is because this is one of the few places in the world where the good guys are winning. Slowly winning, but winning nonetheless. Your hard work is actually helping to clear the planet of Scientology, or at least its abuses. Thank you very much,.
Here’s wishing you the joy of the holiday season today and all the year around.
Mike, for you and yours:
A Wonderful and happy family, good karma in surplus, and winning in life for years to come.
Us
Merry Christmas and a happy new life to all!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Mike. I follow your blog regularly and appreciate all your hard work. You’re a real hero. All the awful things you’ve been through haven’t stopped you from fighting the good fight against a truly evil force in this world. Wishing you, Christie and the kids all the best for a great New Year. I pray that your children in the bubble will wake up some day.
Coming to you from $cion-free Vermont, where you wouldn’t want to be wearing shorts in the snow storm raging outside my window.
Bixntram, you anywhere Killington? A family friend lives there.. I miss the skiing!
Wishing all my fellow “outies” and “never-innies” the happiest and most prosperous year if all.
Merry Christmas Rinder Family! Wishing you much joy and wonderful adventures in your New Year.
Thank you Mike and Christie for all you do to expose the abuses and shenanigans of the vile group known as the church of scientology.
Thank you to all the readers and commenters on this blog. I enjoy so many of your comments but more than that I am heartened by the support for the cause and look forward to the day we can celebrate the end of the abuses inflicted by this “religion.”
Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas Mike~to you and Christie and your darling boys. May the joy of the Holiday be yours and may you be blessed on this day and always.
Love,
FredEX2
Mikey! I won’t say merry Xmas because you having been in $cientology for years taught you not to observe or believe in it; I do wanna wish you and your beautiful family the warmest and happiest of holidays. I love your show and your blog. Be well dear amigo!
On the CONTRARY . . .
Mike was brought into Scientology as a small, innocent 6-year old boy, which he could not help.
He did not choose Scientology.
He never knew any other way of life until, by the Grace of God, he was able to escape the Evil that had been imprisoning him, abusing him, and torturing his Soul.
God provided a means for Mike to leave, albeit alone, and he “stepped out on faith” into a world that he was always taught was the “enemy”, the “Wog” world.
God has richly blessed Mike with a beautiful family, numerous friends, and his spiritual freedom.
It didn’t happen in the “blink of an eye” and Mike had to struggle along the way, but he never walked alone .
The poem “Footprints” is very appropriate here !
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”
He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.”
Merry Christmas, Mike . . . God Bless you and your family !
Dave F.
Merry Christmas Mike and Christie and family! Your youngest looks just like you, Mike! Thanks for all you do on the blog and on the Leah show and in life!
Positive Christmas Postulates to eternity I say to all small and big beings.
God bless you Mike and your family. I hope you have a wonderful Merry Christmas. Will continue to pray for your son and daughter to come to their senses, to leave that cult, and to reunite with their father who loves them.
Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year to the Rinder family and all of my fellow bloggsirs and blogettes. May kindness and fellowship fill our hearts this holiday season and in the
coming new year.
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family!
Merry Christmas, Mike. I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday. Thanks for all you do!
Bah! Humbug! Hey, someone has to take care of the grumpy people.
A little grog helps
Leave it to you to fill those shoes, Old Surfer Dude. 🙂 Merry Christmas to you in LA LA Land. Glad you’re getting to feel the cold out there too. 😀
And blessings to you and your loved ones and friends, Mike. So much for “not being able to make it in the WOG world”, eh? Talk about straight up and vertical expansion! You are the poster child for the people who LEAVE to attain it.
Love to you and yours and to all of my fellow posters and truth seekers. Wow. 2018 is going to be spectacular.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Mike. Thank you for all you have done this past year. Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new year!
Mike, Christie, & those two handsome young men, Thank you from my heart for all that you have done, are doing and will do in this struggle to bring the truth about the evil in Scientology to so many. May you receive all that you desire for 2018. Loved y’all from the start. Love and admire you so much more today.Merry Christmas & a Very Happy New Year.????
Mike,
May you, also, find some “delight” and “excitement”, too . . . You deserve it !
Merry Christmas & God Bless all of you, Mike !
Dave F.
A very, very Merry Christmas to you and your family???
Merry Christmas everyone!
One of the problems with Scientology is that it is missing the Jesus factor.
Dio
Merry Christmas beautiful family
Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thanks so much for all that you do. What a beautiful picture. Family!
Enjoy your family break Mike. Well earned and very well deserved!
Oooh I’ve never seen your two boys! What a lovely family you have and what a lovely community you helped to start with Leah! Much happiness in the New Year!
Merry Christmas Mike to you, Christi, Jack and Shane. There is nothing more important than family. Thank you for continuing to put forth the truth and bring hope to those of us who have lost loved ones to disconnection, so that one day we are reunited.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight. May the BEST day of your past….be the worst day of your future.
Have a wonderful holiday with your beautiful family. I will continue to pray that your son and daughter will reconnect. God bless you and thank you for all of the work that you do.
Thanks Mike. Wishing you and your family all the best. May we who have loved ones still in see their return in the coming year.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all! Enjoy all the festivities the season has to offer Mike – especially the joy it brings to your boys! Through the eyes of a child, magic & wonder happens. Best wishes for your continued success and a great new year!!
Merry Christmas Mike and happy New Year. Keep up the good work.
Merry Christmas Mike, thank you for exposing the truth!
Seasons Greetings to you and your family!!
Mike, in this holiday season, full of thoughts of family, of hope, sharing, and goodwill, may I pass on my best wishes to you. Christie and the boys for a very Merry Christmas!
Thank you for all your efforts on so many levels, in providing hope and indeed goodwill, to those still trapped in Scn’s prison of belief; your work is vital in saving lives, as well as describing an alternative future for so many folks still caught in the trap of Scn.
Through this blog and Aftermath, you continue to provide the unvarnished truth about the many lies of Scientology, and significantly, have undoubtedly prevented some poor soul from potential ruin, or have encouraged someone already enmeshed in that nightmare, by illustrating that’s there’s an out, that there’s a whole out here that cares, and that they can hope for a Scn-free future.
I look forward to carrying the fight forward in 2018, with both you and Tony, along with everyone here, and in the critic community at large, as we continue our onslaught against the pernicious evil of Scientology.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Years to Mike & Family. Thank you for making a better year to come for others.
Merry Christmas to all my blog companions.
Have a very well deserved time off Mike. With a little luck if you are not too busy I would like to see you in the new year.
Have a very Merry Christmas with your beautiful family.
Merry Christmas xx Have a wonderful time with your family. Thank you for all your hard work.
Merry Christmas to you and yours! I wish you and your beautiful family many days of togetherness with peace and love the only things that come your way.
Wonderful picture of a beautiful family. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for all you do and will continue to do in 2018!
Mike, enjoy the holidays with your family, and very best wishes for the new year! (ISN’T IT WONDERFUL TO BE A WOG AND HAVE A FAMILY TO LOVE)
You really accomplished a yeoman’s work this past year. Thank you!
Thank YOU, Mike. Nancy and I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday. By the way, your youngest son looks like a clone of you. 🙂
Let me be the first here to wish you and your lovely family a very happy holiday season, and thank you for all that you’re doing. May 2018 bring even more miracles! Xx