Karen#1
Well-known member
Excerpt:
Chris Shelton continues his look at the state of ‘religious studies’ attitudes about Scientology by working through a new issue of the journal Implicit Religion. Go here for his first, second, and third installments.
The Church of Scientology dominated my mind and my life for the first forty years of my life. That’s a long time and in that time, I experienced all the good and all of the bad that membership had to offer, with an emphasis on the bad because that is, in the main, what Scientology delivers. The clouds of lies that filled my thinking after I left Scientology was like a plague of locusts buzzing relentlessly around my head, always noisy and always at the forefront of my attention. It’s taken years to isolate each of those damn buzzing lies and debunk them.~~~ read more
Chris Shelton continues his look at the state of ‘religious studies’ attitudes about Scientology by working through a new issue of the journal Implicit Religion. Go here for his first, second, and third installments.
The Church of Scientology dominated my mind and my life for the first forty years of my life. That’s a long time and in that time, I experienced all the good and all of the bad that membership had to offer, with an emphasis on the bad because that is, in the main, what Scientology delivers. The clouds of lies that filled my thinking after I left Scientology was like a plague of locusts buzzing relentlessly around my head, always noisy and always at the forefront of my attention. It’s taken years to isolate each of those damn buzzing lies and debunk them.~~~ read more
