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Book Critical of Scientology, Banned From America for 27 Years, Now Goes on Sale in US
Telegraph ^
| 30 Mar 2014
| Joanna Walters
Posted on 03/30/2014 4:49:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
British writer Robert Miller's expose´of religion's founder L. Rob Hubbard finds US publisher
A British book the Church of Scientology managed to block in America is finally on sale in the US 27 years after it was published elsewhere in the world.
The book, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, written by Russell Miller, a British journalist, and originally published in 1987, appeared in print and tablet editions in the US earlier this month.
The book exposes many of the boasts of Mr Hubbard, the late founder of Scientology, about his early life and achievements as outright lies.
It was heavily cited in a recent US best-seller Going Clear, by Lawrence Wright, and this latest publication adds to a series of attacks and high-profile member defections that have undermined the oddball religion followed by celebrities such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Elizabeth Moss of Mad Men fame.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Books/Literature; Religion
KEYWORDS: hubbard; lronhubbard; publishing; scientology; us
To: nickcarraway
How does Xenu feel about this?
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posted on
03/30/2014 4:54:04 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: nickcarraway
This is a great book. I have checked out from our local library more than once.
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posted on
03/30/2014 4:56:41 PM PDT
by
lastchance
("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/30/2014 4:59:15 PM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
To: nickcarraway
Really? Scientology is phony?
Who knew?
To: Scoutmaster
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:02:55 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: nickcarraway
Wow! You mean smart people like John Travolta, Tom Cruise, and Greta Van Susteren were/are taken in by it???? Whodathunk?
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:03:02 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Poor little clams! Snap! Snap! Snap!
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:06:49 PM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
To: nickcarraway
Nothing like a science fiction writer creating a “religion’ stupid people follow.
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:13:21 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Are!)
To: nickcarraway
When a bunch of rich liberals want something supressed....
Zappa did his criticism in a way they couldn't quite block on Joe's Garage.
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:13:54 PM PDT
by
logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
To: Army Air Corps
How does Xenu feel about this?We won't know till he gets back from his volcano run in his DC3.
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:30:29 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
To: logic101.net
Sy Borg.
Gimme that.
Gimme that.
Sy borg.
Give me de Chromium Leg.
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:35:59 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
To: Scoutmaster
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:37:10 PM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: nickcarraway
They’ll take every bit of you.
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posted on
03/30/2014 5:45:22 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: CodeToad
His books are so bad, that was the only possible way to get anyone to buy them.
Brilliant in a disgusting way.
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posted on
03/30/2014 6:41:45 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: TangoLimaSierra
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posted on
03/30/2014 7:08:18 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
To: nickcarraway
Always heard that Hubbard created Scientology on a bet with John W. Campbell that he could create a fake religion that people would follow. Wonder if Mohammed made the same bet with someone.
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posted on
03/30/2014 7:57:50 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Lx
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posted on
03/31/2014 7:34:09 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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