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Scientology wants you to bring your kids to its creepy ‘mecca’ in Florida — it’s an adventure!

[Anton gets Super Power]

Thanks to Rasha, we have the latest copy of Source magazine, which the Church of Scientology puts out to advertise the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida to its members. In general, this issue is a lot of rah-rah repetition of the stuff you’ve heard a million times before. But one article []

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Scientology’s ‘grass roots’ social media effort is actually led by its most mediocre spokesman

[Ed Parkin in 2016]

Chuck Beatty remembers Ed Parkin as his fellow inmate, his bunkmate, and his []

Thirty-three years later, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is still surfing the galaxy

 It’s a major date on the Scientology calendar today, even if the church itself doesn’t actually celebrate it. And you know, they really should. It was 33 years ago today that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard voluntarily left his hale and fit 74-year-old body in order to continue his upper-level OT researches without the burden []

David Miscavige in South Africa: The new ‘Advanced Org’ gets its castle

 Scientology finally posted publicity photos from its January 1 celebration in South Africa to open its new ‘Advanced Org’ there, and the reason it took them so long is that church leader David Miscavige was apparently there for an entire week of []

As Leah Remini returns for a third round, here’s Scientology’s side of the story

[Self-discovery isn’t easy, pilgrim]

To our American readers, Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a swell day with your loved ones. We plan to do the same. Now, on to today’s story…

Two years ago this month, Leah Remini premiered her A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath. And before she did, knowing what a major impact it []

Scientology’s new survey is a hoot — we’re itching for your answers!

 On Monday, we told you that we’d gotten our mitts on a new Sea Org application that Scientology is asking marks to fill out before they sign billion-year contracts and start working around the []

See the Scientology-like ad for Scientologist-owned ABCMouse, made by Scientologists!

 We seem to catch people by surprise every time we point this out, but ABCMouse is not only a hugely successful digital educational enterprise, it’s also helping its owner, Age of Learning founder Doug Dohring, funnel millions of dollars in donations to the Church of []

Fake medals and kiddie diddlers: Scientology’s cruise ship scandal gets even worse

 Our thanks to the tipster who sent us pages from the newest copy of Impact magazine, the publication of the International Association of Scientologists. []

If it’s wrong to love Scientology hip-hop, we don’t want to be right

 Peter Bonyai asked us if we’d seen a three-year-old video put out by Scientology which features one of our favorite performers, Scientology’s in-house hip hop giant, Chill EB. We told him we weren’t sure, but we really didn’t need much excuse to visit it again as long as the Chillmaster was in []

Our prayers are answered — Freedom magazine is coming to Scientology television!

 You can hardly imagine our glee when we opened the special issue of Freedom magazine that hit Scientology’s website yesterday and found what’s going to be coming soon to the Scientology television []