re: Leah Remini's Scientology documentary on A&E

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Does this series have a set number of episodes

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Ep. 7, tonight, is listed as the "season finale".

I didn't notice that, but my DVR says there's another new ep next week...perhaps it's "Part 2" of tonight's ep? And "season finale" instead of "series finale", could that imply maybe there's another season in the works?

I hope they go as many seasons as it takes to get these manipulative fricks' tax exemption stripped from them. Hubbard openly said he was looking for a way to skip out on income taxes. There's no doubt that Miscavige Littlefingered his way to the top, with LRH's health failing prior to his death.

Dude belongs in GoT.

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but my DVR says there's another new ep next week...perhaps it's "Part 2" of tonight's ep?

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It's a televised Reddit AMA

Our pet theory is that she keeps those nails like that just in case she has to defend herself against some paid heavy from the church tries to shove her in the back of a van and cart her off to The Hole.

Having seen Going Clear after the first few episodes of this show, I'd say they complement each other pretty well. Leah's show does a good job of fleshing out the dramatis personae that Going Clear introduces from 30,000 feet.

I did find it interesting that Remini's show hasn't spoken at length about Travolta's involvement (especially in light of his son's death), but they do put crosshairs squarely on Tom Cruise. To that end - if you didn't know better, you'd think that Cruise and LR are/were the only celebrities in the church.

Even Going Clear only interviewed Spanky Taylor, who was Travolta's handler back in the day, till they apprehended her following an escape attempt.

What I find to be mind boggling is how they can legally get away with traveling to nab someone who's blown and take them back to wherever the frick they're squirreling folks away who escape. The semantic leap of making someone sign documents that waive their individual rights as a citizen in the name of freedom of religion is sickening.

Not to mention there's a gigantic paradox at stake when you claim a parishioner is expressing freedom of religion by "willfully" signing documents that waive and often violate every other Constitutional right they have that would protect themselves from the God-awful practices of the very church they claim to worship. Literally every single facet of this "church" is a fraud.

I imagine that 99% of the awful stuff that goes on in this organization since LRH's death and likely a good bit before, are Miscavige's personal machinations, warping the entire organization into his person instrument of destruction.

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ot to mention there's a gigantic paradox at stake when you claim a parishioner is expressing freedom of religion by "willfully" signing documents that waive and often violate every other Constitutional right they have that would protect themselves from the God-awful practices of the very church they claim to worship. Literally every single facet of this "church" is a fraud.

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This is the biggest issue of all. No other church...hell.even other cults don't require you to sign contracts like these. They literally haND over total control of their lives and families with these Contracts.

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not being able to figure out how it's a religion. I still don't get that part.



Yeah, that still does not make sense to me either.

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As far as tax exempt status goes, they basically blackmailed and bought off members of the IRS to get it. It's in "Going Clear."

Clearly all you folks are low thetan. Haters!

I thought they said it was a trillion years, not a billion, but I could be wrong. Either way I doubt that it's a contract that could be enforceable in a court of law. (I'm no lawyer.)

As far as it being a religion, it believes in the concept of an eternal soul and promotes an ideology that is supposed to make your life and the rest of the world better. Every religion operates to tell people how to behave and includes some element of mysticism. Cult or religion, there's not much difference other than longevity and enrollment.