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Mormon Stories Podcast

1194: Chris Shelton - David Miscavige and the Rise of Modern Scientology Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we will continue our series on the parallels between Scientology/Mormonism - interviewing Chris Shelton - Critical Thinker -- a former Scientologist and Sea Org member, and current writer, consultant podcaster, YouTuber and advocate for critical thinking.

We will be begin by exploring the rise of modern Scientology after the death of founder L. Ron Hubbard - including an exploration of what it means to be a Scientologist in 2019.

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Okay, so.

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So there's one thing that dies.

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More than that though, in order to turn this clear water investigation because they had

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a dead body on their hands and you don't just get to turn the other cheek when you got

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a dead body on your hands.

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So it took massive amounts of money on the church's part to engage in public relations

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campaigns, events, you know, they would bring clear water luminaries together, government

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officials and stuff and they would wine and dine them and they really went all out for

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about two and a half years fighting this investigation, fighting keeping David Misgavitch's good

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name anywhere, you know, totally away from it, plausible deniability, a thousand percent,

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destroying records like I said, that's been admitted to on record.

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So and then they mercilessly stalked and harassed that corner for over a year until she

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finally, finally changed it to accidental death as the official cause of death, taking any

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