You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hey everyone and welcome to episode 121 of atheistically speaking with your host

Thomas Smith. This is part three of my first ever three-parter of an interview anyway.

I mean, I guess you can if you count, you know, portable atheist,

but we're not counting the portable atheist.

First ever three-parter.

And the response has been really great to this one. I'm so glad I found

Chris via Travis and I'm so glad that he came on and it's been so interesting so now we get to hear

we've got we got three parts of the story we had the history and a lot of the

basics of Scientology which was excellent and it will be my go-to

reference from now on I just go check out that episode again if I you know forget

what's going on with Scientology and then we had how he got into the church

and just became a member and got into the organization,

all that.

And now we get to find out how he left the church and how he dealt with that after so many years.

So really excited for this conclusion.

So I don't even want to hold it from you anymore.

Let's get to it.

Here we go. Here's part three with Chris Shelton. What eventually led to your leaving the church?

Well, what happened was the last four or five years that I was working for the church,

I was traveling around the West U.S. a lot.

I no longer worked in management.

I was working on expanding the existing churches.

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