Posted on 03/16/2013 7:58:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping.
In "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology And My Harrowing Escape," Jenna Miscavige-Hill -- whose uncle David Miscavige runs the secretive group -- also claims she was forced to work as a child.
But a spokesman for the Church said her claims were "false" and denounced "efforts to exploit Mr Miscavige's name."
"The Church has long respected the family unit while accommodating and helping those raising children," Karin Pouw, spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology International, told AFP.
"The Church does not engage in any activities that mistreat, neglect or force children to engage in manual labor. The Church follows all laws with respect to children," she said, accusing Miscavige-Hill of "apostate behavior."
In the book, published in February, the 29-year-old tells of hard labour she and other children were forced to do in the 1990s in the Ranch, in a remote part of the California desert.
The Ranch, near San Jacinto, 90 miles (150 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, was "like a military boot camp, with grueling drills, endless musters, exhaustive inspections, and arduous physical labor that no child should have to do."
The children saw their parents for only a few hours per week. They did not receive any education in the traditional sense....
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Makes sense, since what distinguishes Christianity is the total absence of ritual from its practice...
;^)
I’ve been reading up on the SeaOrg, but I still haven’t figured out what exactly they do. It seems like long days of grunt work under military like conditions, but to what purpose?
anyone interested in this cult should read the book called: “Going Clear”.. just out from the “Looming Tower” author: Lawrence Wright. I couldn’t put the darn thing down and read it quite quickly a couple of weeks ago.
The movie was “Primary Colors”, based on the book of the same name by “Anonymous” (but really Joe Klein).
I do think that the book was harder on Clinton (or the character who was based on Clinton) than the movie was. Been a while since I saw/read either.
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