AMERICAN actor Larry Anderson, probably best known as the guy who starred in the Knight Rider pilot before David Hasselhoff took over the role, is also an accomplished magician. His most impressive trick? Making $150,000 dollars disappear  … into the coffers of the Church of Scientology. So what did Anderson get for his $150,000? According [...]
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USING the “power of touch”, “ministers” from the Church of Scientology say they are “reconnecting” Haitians injured in the recent earthquake “with their nervous systems”. Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling Hubbardites, according to this report, fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the [...]
AS international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a US faith group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need … and Hollywood nut John Travolta has announced that he will fly “volunteer ministers” from the Church of Scientology to the devastated country. But, first, those Bibles. These [...]
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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 followers [...]
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IT just goes from bad to worse for those poor, beleaguered Scientology nutsters. After the major hit they took in a court in France recently, and their loss of prominent member Paul Haggis, they are now licking their wounds from a mauling inflicted by an Australian politician. Senator Nick Xenophon, whose surname suggest that he [...]
HOT on the heels of the news that the Church of Scientology had been convicted of fraud in France, comes the bombshell that Oscar-winning director and long-time Scientologist Paul Haggis has turned his back on this vile organisation, citing its homophobia for his decision to pack it in. According to this report, he gave his [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
