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Scientology Responds for Tom Cruise

December 23, 2020 By Mike Rinder 29 Comments

How odd is this. Scientology is speaking as the PR representative of Tom Cruise. While he and his PR people remain silent. The man who laughs in the face of suppression and can confront and shatter any SP is apparently unable to confront some bad media. It would seem David Miscavige was upset that "nobody was coming to the defense of Tom" and so ordered his minions to put out a statement. To me, this is further indication that the whole thing was a publicity stunt that blew up in their faces. Or at the very least, Miscavige had praised Cruise for his "tough guy" image and told him he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Cinema Blend, COVID-19, Jessica Rawden, Leah Remini, Scientology, Tom Cruise

Leah Remini on Tom Cruise’s Rant

December 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 54 Comments

Tony Ortega posted something written by Leah to put the recent Tom Cruise rant into context. I think it is important information that should be shared as widely as possible. Perhaps there are some readers who come to this blog but don't visit Ortega's. Here is Tony's posting with Leah's statement in full. Leah Remini sent us this statement about Tom Cruise’s on-set rant that was caught on tape and released by the Sun yesterday… Tom Cruise claimed he does not get so much as a cold because of Scientology. All Scientologists believe that if they aren’t connected to what they label … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leah Remini Tagged With: David Miscavige, Leah Remini, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega

Scientology’s Tax Exemption

November 28, 2020 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

I happened to pull up this posting from April 2015 and in re-reading it I thought it important enough to repost here today. With The Aftermath on Netflix, many new people are being exposed to the horrifying truth about scientology for the first time. And many have the same question as those who have been in the know for some time. How is it that scientology can be tax exempt? This is a pretty good essay that explains in some detail why it should NOT. And it addresses a bit why it hasn’t changed. Unfortunately, with a conservative majority now firmly entrenched in the US Supreme Court, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tax Exemption Tagged With: 501(c)3, Amish, Catholic church, Constitution, David Miscavige, irs, Jehovah's Witnesses, Netflix, public policy, Tax Exemption, The Aftermath, Tom Cruise, US Supreme Court

Jenna Elfman — A Good Scientologist

March 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 65 Comments

  A recent article in US Weekly quotes Jenna Elfman about "the controversy" around scientology. She is a shining example of how a good scientologist acts and speaks. Foolishly. While scientologists proclaim they have "the tech" to protect them from suppressive influences and they learn to "confront and shatter" this sort of thing, in fact, they avoid "suppression" at any cost. And by "suppression" they mean anything that is negative or even questioning about scientology. When they are confronted by such things, they run from it. Close their eyes. Hold their hands of their ears … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: bankruptcy, Disconnection, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, media, shelly miscavige, Suppressives, Tom Cruise, US Weekly

Scientologists “Shattering” Suppression

February 17, 2020 By Mike Rinder 54 Comments

  This is a recent Facebook post from one of the deluded scientologists who believe they are "changing the world."   She actually believes the magazines disappeared from the shelves permanently? And even if they did, that she makes any difference to the impact of this story? Here is what she was so upset about, last week's Us Weekly (they are dated for the day they "expire" so readers don't think they are getting "old" fake news) cover story.... Typical of tabloid mags, the story actually doesn't have anything to do with the headlines. It reports on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: Danny Masterson, David Miscavige, Elisabeth Moss, June Middleton, Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Scientology, shelly miscavige, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, US Weekly, Val Haney

Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Scientology

December 29, 2019 By Mike Rinder 29 Comments

Marlow Stern has written an excellent piece in the Daily Beast concerning the relationship between David Miscavige, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman: How Nicole Kidman Almost Got Tom Cruise to Leave Scientology. It is the 20 year anniversary of Eyes Wide Shut, the Stanley Kubrick film that was the catalyst for them nearly breaking away from scientology. There is little to add to Marlow's excellent reporting other than to reiterate that this piece highlights the inhumane practice of disconnection in scientology. Scientology claims disconnection is a "personal choice" -- but in reality the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, Scientology Tagged With: Daily Beast, David Miscavige, Eyes Wide Shut, Marlow Stern, Nicole Kidman, Stanly Kubrick, Tom Cruise

Scientology TV — What’s Missing?

December 9, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Scientology is making a really big deal about their new episode featuring Chick Corea. Chick is an interesting story that has been mentioned before. He got into financial troubles when his wife was hammering his credit cards. David Miscavige had known Chick for a long time because his father, Ron, was good friends with Ron Moss, Chick's manager. (Ron Moss is father of Elisabeth Moss of Handmaid's Tale fame). Miscavige was alerted to the problem and not wanting a "flap" with one of scientology's longest term celebrities, brought in Lyman Spurlock as a CPA to look through his finances. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, scientology TV Tagged With: Chick Corea, David Miscavige, Elisabeth Moss, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, public relations, Sci, Scientology, scientology TV, Tom Cruise

The “Tech” of Marriage

October 6, 2019 By Mike Rinder 61 Comments

  The amazing hypocrisy of scientology is no better illustrated than with this promotional piece. Here is the "tech" of L. Ron Hubbard being sold as the way to attain happiness in life -- in this case success in marriage. This is a  classic case of "Do as I say, not as I do..." L. Ron Hubbard was married 3 times -- each ended in disaster. He left his first wife (Polly) with his first 2 children (Katie and Ron Jnr) to pursue other "interests", including a relationship with the woman who would become his 2nd wife Sarah. He married Sarah bigamously. She bore him a daughter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Scientology Tagged With: David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, Marriage, Mary Sue Hubbard, Polly, Sarah Hubbard, Tom Cruise

Stand Double Standards

September 25, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Not that this is big news... scientology is operating on a blatant double standard. I saw this on the STAAD twitter feed. Now of course, we could do an even better headline -- SCIENTOLOGY SUPPORTS ALLEGED RAPIST DANNY MASTERSON. The difference in the two cases is rather striking. The accuser of Haggis NEVER FILED a police complaint. In fact, the main accuser tried to get money from Paul Haggis to remain silent. HE went to law enforcement to report this. Masteron's victims all went to law enforcement -- and there are 4 of them of have filed police complaints and now after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, Fair Game Tagged With: Ed Parkin, Fast Eddie, Harvey Weinstein, John Travolta, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, paul haggis, STAAD League, STAND League, Tom Cruise

Why Dublin??

September 15, 2019 By Mike Rinder 43 Comments

We keep seeing promotional pieces from Dublin "ideal org" that features people from other countries around Europe and the world. Almost every one of their "public" is NOT Irish. The absence of Irish completions in the Dublin "ideal" org is hardly surprising. Dublin only ever had a small, failing mission that was propped up by the Sea Org in order to keep its doors open. It suffered a massive blow from a legal case and the disclosure of its bankrupt condition. But why invest enormous sums in a country that could not sustain a single mission? There are a couple of possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AO Africa, David Miscavige, Dublin, Ideal Orgs, ireland, Tom Cruise

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