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Scientology Sunday Funnies: Save the date for Maiden Voyage!

It’s time for Sunday Funnies and another round of Scientology’s latest mailers and fliers sent in to us by our great tipsters.

We love these weekly snapshots of Scientology’s fundraising fever. They give us a real sense of how leader David Miscavige is trying to get more and more money from fewer and fewer people. The []

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Sunday Funnies: Scientology fundraising fliers try desperately to hide the truth

It’s that time of the week again, when we reveal the fliers and mailers and other items that our great tipsters have forwarded to us during the week.

Before we get into the glossy fundraising appeals that pour in each week, we have a stark reminder that as much as Scientology wants to give the impression []

Sunday Funnies: What part of ‘rebel’ doesn’t Scientology understand?

Our tipsters really came through this week with an amazing collection of the latest mailers and fliers that the Church of Scientology has been sending to its members from various divisions around the world.

We love to show them to you in our weekly feature we call Sunday Funnies, and this week the line between comedy []

Sunday Funnies: Scientology says, May the Fourth be with you

On Sundays, we share with you the latest fundraising mailers Scientology has sent out to its beleaguered members, who have been subjected to constant appeals and are generally exhausted.

How do you convince people to keep coming out for events where they’ll be under intense pressure to turn over thousands of dollars they can’t afford to []

Scientology Sunday Funnies: More scenes from the End of Days

It’s that time of the week again, when we share with you the wacky fundraising mailers that the Church of Scientology sends out to its members around the world.

Our longtime readers have seen plenty of appeals for Ideal Org fundraising, and fliers urging Scientologists to hurry up and do their next course. But there are []

Easter Sunday Funnies: David Miscavige has risen, & Scientology has more money than ever!

Hey kids, happy Easter Sunday! We have a selection of treats for you to hunt down this morning, and we’re starting off with another surprising tax document that shows the astounding wealth of the Church of Scientology!

Jeffrey Augustine has been helping us find these gems, and he tells us this one is hot off the []

Sunday Funnies: The Writers of the Future and more success stories!

Is it that time of year again already? Tonight, Scientology puts on its annual celebration of SF and Fantasy, the Writers of the Future gala. The celebration will anoint this year’s winners in writing and illustration, who are also featured in another year’s anthology (see right).

Once again, leading lights of speculative fiction will pretend that []

Scientology Sunday Funnies: Sydney nears its big day, and Silicon Valley is in high gear!

It’s time for Sunday Funnies, when we take a look at the Scientology mailers and fliers that our tipsters send us from around the world.

As Scientology withers (see yesterday’s dire news about that if you haven’t already), we can’t help being very curious about which poor souls are still taking part and putting on a []

Sunday Funnies: These fliers should convince you to give all your cash to Scientology!

Hey, we sure had a fun time last night live-blogging the Scientology episode of H2’s ‘America’s Book of Secrets.’ It turned out to be an excellent show, and covered an amazing amount in only an hour. The episode will be on many more times, and as soon as it’s available at H2’s website, we’ll let []

Three weeks out of Scientology: Fresh information from a ‘blown’ Sea Org member

Karen de la Carriere has an amazing video for us this week. She talked to Jillian Schlesinger, who left Scientology’s inner “Sea Organization” just a few weeks ago after 12 years of dedicated work.

Joining at only 18, Jillian says she was working 19 hour days and taking home only about eight dollars a week — []