Just about every church has its haters, and the more fringy the church, the more haters

there tend to be.

No church better exemplifies that than Scientology.

The acknowledged invention of a science fiction author who took the common sense idea that

talking about your problems tends to bring some relief, added a thick layer of science

fiction and techno jargon mumbo jumbo, and became a multi-millionaire.

The truth behind Scientology is coming up unskeptoid.

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Scientology.

Today we're going to point the Skeptical Eye at perhaps the most notorious of all the

world's religions, Scientology.

Many people laugh at it, some people hate it, some even dedicate their lives to protesting

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