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Why did the church protract the wrongful death suit of Lisa McPherson for 7 years, and then settle out of court?

They hoped it would go away. Like a defrauder of little old ladies they hoped to out live the victims.

Why did L. Ron say he was a nuculear physicist, or that he graduated from college, or about his war record?

He lied?

If he was so anti depression medication, what about the drugs found in his body when he died?

Unfortunately Dr. Denk isn't around to ask that question. BTW, I would be fascinated to see a list of the drugs and their concentrations.

From the Scientology Lies website, some questions: Why have so many people reportedly been held against their will by Scientology? (Just a few examples: Michael Pattinson, Janice Hayward, Roxanne Friend, Dee Rowe, Marianne Coenan, Dorothy Geary, Moira Hutchinson, Dennis Ehrlich, Stacy Young, Birgitta Dagnell, Hana Whitfield, Margery Wakefield, Annie Rosenblum, and Gerry Armstrong)

The same reason people were burned during the Spanish Inquisition. To save their immortal souls...

The book "Dianetics" promises that Dianetic processing can give people perfect memories and greatly improved health, based on extensive scientific research. Why does Scientology continue to promote the book when Scientology's never provided any scientific evidence; the scientific study done in the 50's disproved the existence of engrams; and no "Clear" has ever demonstrated having perfect memory or any of the other abilities promised in the book?

*shrug* engrams as a trace on a cell or cellular memory don't exist. Engrams as in painful suppressed memories that influence current behavior do exist. People experience tremendous relief when they are reviewed.

Isn't that fraud?

Sort of. It's more a template for what was developed later.

Kudos for agreeing to this, I know it is potentially really annoying.

I paid close attention to the McPherson situation when it was at it's hottest, and I saw Scientologists stalking participants in a candlelight vigil at the Clearwater compound and peppering them with insults. A Current Affair cameras captured one Scientologist blowing out the candles. Tom Davis, the son of actress Anne Archer and a Sea Org member , harassed and provoked a BBC reporter into a screaming rant that made him look just as nuts as the Scientologists.

What is the strategy behind being so maddog rude? The only ones who react worse to criticism are Islamists.