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In the mormon world and maybe in the Christian world, as a kid, your first memories of

church are going to be going to church, sitting in, you know, soccer meeting as they call

to mormonism, going to primary, learning the songs.

So sort of a regular church attendance every week and getting together with other families

or other children and the kind of children or youth programs that emerge throughout childhood

and adolescence of religious instruction, of song, of community building.

Does any of that play into the life of a child growing up in Scientology or to your life?

What was the weekly religious observance like?

Well in Scientology, there are not, there are Sunday services, but that came way, way,

way, way, way, way later.

Scientology doesn't have weekly rituals as such.

What they have is they have classes that they offer and they have counseling.

And those are the services that Scientology provides.

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