Has anybody been watching this Leah Remini show about Scientology on A&E?

I hope not. I have a bit of a crush and she hasn't done a nude spread yet.

Some of the stories on there were creepy. The camera in the birdhouse; the lady who moved in next door only to follow them when they moved out.

Yeah I have watched.

It's incredible the shite this cult gets away with

I've been watching it.

I'm mixed. Leah Remini used her celebrity power and exposure to push this shite for years. She needs to raise her hand and acknowledge her part more than she has. Perhaps she believes that she is doing her part by doing the show. I don't agree.

I am, however, fascinated by the show. My dad and my aunt (his sister) got hung up with this shite when I was in high school. My aunt gave me an L. Ron Hubbard book when I was in high school, and I threw it away unread.

I believe in God, but religion has confused me for a while.

I can tell you this. If you leave the "church" after doing some services, they will track you down no matter how long it has been. I know someone who started getting mail 10+ years after disengaging. He didn't live at his address at his time of involvement. How did they find out and what do they want with him?


Edited to change "this" address to HIS address. He doesn't live here with me.

It literally is watching people walk out of Plato's cave (which is full of freaks).

I had no idea Scientology was so expensive and required so much reading. Two deal breakers for my arse.

Watching the first episode now. My first thought is the people who come after Mike Rinder remind me of the millennial democrats who get so mad after losing elections. The resemblance is uncanny, really.

Scientology is interesting as its managed to merge and find a niche in the cross section of three huge cultural tenants of America: Religion, Celebrity and Litigation. It endoreses itself as a religion, markets themselves as a celebrity and protects itself with litigation.

It's definitely strange and from a logical perspective, just looking at the genesis should lead you to realizing this Hubbard guy was a hack. But there's something blinding about it to some folks. I just don't understand it.

The weirdest me part to me isn't the cult behavior, that's what cults do. The annual meetings weird me out. It's like a big seance and that huge alter just shouts something bad about it.

They quote Hubbard once saying the goal is for man to get himself in a position to look inward and answer all the questions himself. That's pretty much the essence of humanism/satanism.