Leaving Scientology

From the SMH, a former high-ranking scientologist talks about why he left what he now considers to be a cult.

He joined the church in Sydney in 1976. He rose through the ranks and became a full-time employee before being sent to work for the church in the United States, where he joined Sea Org, Scientology's elite inner core.

Sea Org members must sign a billion-year contract to the church (because they believe in an afterlife this condition is taken very seriously).

The man who spoke up still lives in fear of retribution.

Scientology

The existence of Scientology testifies to our incapacity to think rationally.

A very sad article in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

The Bible's perspective:

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

-2 Thessalonians 1:9-12.