GERMAN Scientologists are trying to block the broadcast of a film that depicts the cult as dangerous and unethical.
The 90-minute film Bis Nichts Mehr Bleibt (Until Nothing Remains) tells the story of a family’s strife as a result of its involvement with the cult. According to this report, it tells the true story of Heiner [...]
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ON March 4 we revealed that one of Scientology’s many front organisations, the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, was to have a presence at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham.
Well, now they are not.
According to a message posted today by Hartley Patterson on the anti-Scientology blog, WhyWeProtest, the CCHR has been given the royal order [...]
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I’VE heard L Ron Hubbard, inventor of the mind-destroying cult known as Scientology, called many things: charlatan, bully, crook, liar and chronic drug abuser, to name but a few.
But go to the website of the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, and there you will find the cynical old fraud described as an “humanitarian and philosopher”.
It [...]
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MEMBERS of a religious cult who starved a toddler to death because he refused to say “amen” during a mealtime prayer face jail sentences of up to 60 years each.
Cult leader Queen Antoinette, founder of 1 Mind Ministries, was convicted yesterday in Baltimore of the second degree murder of Javon Thompson, aged about 16 months, [...]
THE Exclusive Brethren, once described by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as an “extremist cult” that breaks up families, is to get more than $70 million to run its schools.
The sect’s schools, according to this report, have secured more than $8.4m under the government’s school building stimulus package, and they will share [...]
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MORE than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by Scientology charlatan L Ron Hubbard, plus reams of corresponding writings, have been unearthed in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, restore and transcribe lost pieces of the lunatic’s work.
Though sure to be derided by the church’s many critics, according to this report, its [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 