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		<title>Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Aaron Smith-Levin just pointed out to me that scientology has a blogsite that is mikerinderblog.org, apparently hoping to capture people who make a typo in inputting my url. They have my name in big bold letters, right at the top. I am not sure if it because I so often go to my blog [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to Contact Elected Representatives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 11:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These are some words of wisdom from a viewer who noticed the discussion of contacting elected officials on one of our YouTube live chats. This person didn&#8217;t ask for this to be published, so I have hidden personal identifying details in case it might be a problem in some way. &#160; I saw a question [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scientology Refunds and Repayments: We Don&#8217;t Do That Any More</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[irs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Recently, a letter from the &#8220;Claims Verification Board&#8221; came to my attention. In it they state: &#8220;It has always been church policy that anyone requesting a refund/repayment must do so within 3 months&#8221; &#8212; so of course, they denied the request for return of funds (as they ALWAYS do). This is NOT in fact [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scientology, Christianity and the IRS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reiterating something I have covered before on this Sunday morning. The idea that you can be a scientologist and a Christian is a lie, yet scientologists claim this all the time to try to appear &#8220;normal&#8221; or &#8220;non-threatening.&#8221; You can see from the official IRS publication above listing the criteria the IRS uses to determine [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Episode 41: Law Review Author Taylor Holley</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 11:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leah and I had the great pleasure of speaking to Taylor Holley this week. Taylor is a law student at Texas Tech University who published a legal analysis of scientology&#8217;s tax exempt status in the Law Review. Taylor has never been involved in scientology, but grew up in Tampa which sparked her interest in scientology. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Australian Media Again Leading the Way</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Leigh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charities and Not For Profits Commission]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[You have to hand it to the Australian media &#8212; they are, as a whole, less cowed by scientology than in any other country. We have watched for years as Bryan Seymour and Steve Cannane have done numerous stories exposing scientology&#8217;s abuses. And there have been others too. And now Ben Schneiders  has joined the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Auditing Scientology: Reexamining Tax Exemption Eligibility</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of our commenters (ISNOINews) forward me a link to a wonderful piece by Taylor Holley, a Juris Doctorate candidate at Texas Tech University Law School written for the Law Review. It is titled  Auditing Scientology: Reexamining the Church&#8217;s 501(c)3 Tax Exemption Eligibility. If you click on the link above, you can download the full [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Scientology an Investment?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Old Wil Seabrook is at it again. These STAND flunkies are entirely predictable. Anything that is a touchy subject for scientology (in this case, their merciless money-grubbing) is taken up and presented as if it&#8217;s a GOOD thing. Let&#8217;s just dissect a few of Wil&#8217;s statements. One thing that people ask me is why Scientologists make donations [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Uncle Sam Wants to Help Scientology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every year, scientology rolls out the posters about how the US Government is making it especially easy to give more money to scientology. Unfortunately, this is one of the only true things they ever say. And one of the most galling. The entire US Government is certainly not on the side of scientology. There are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kanye, the IRS and Scientology</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/kanye-the-irs-and-scientology/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 14:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; This is an interesting recent Forbes magazine article. The author covers how Kanye West, who has changed his name to Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West and conducts &#8220;Sunday Services,” could actually file for tax exemption and reap mighty benefits. He describes what the IRS criteria are for granting such a religious exemption: Distinct legal existence; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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