http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:31:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21713/will-smith-scientology-school-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21713/will-smith-scientology-school-2#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:42:29 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21713 Some teachers at Will Smith's New Village Academy in Calabasas are Scientologists, and instructional methods developed by the cult's founder will be used.

An official says Scientology will not be taught. But who believes a Scientologist? And what is the value of exposing kids to material based on the world of a charlatan?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21713/will-smith-scientology-school-2/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21695/comedian-works-his-scientology-threat-letter-into-his-act-birmingham-uk-scientology-building-deal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21695/comedian-works-his-scientology-threat-letter-into-his-act-birmingham-uk-scientology-building-deal#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:02:14 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21695 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21695/comedian-works-his-scientology-threat-letter-into-his-act-birmingham-uk-scientology-building-deal/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21688/tom-cruises-nazi-photoshop-job-for-valkyrie http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21688/tom-cruises-nazi-photoshop-job-for-valkyrie#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:59:02 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21688 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21688/tom-cruises-nazi-photoshop-job-for-valkyrie/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21687/scientology-gerry-armstrong http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21687/scientology-gerry-armstrong#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:48:31 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21687 Why has the Church of Scientology spent nearly three decades trying to discredit and silence an unemployed, penniless man living on a disability pension in the middle of nowhere in British Columbia?

Because of what he knows.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21687/scientology-gerry-armstrong/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21671/scientology-the-anonymous-protestors http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21671/scientology-the-anonymous-protestors#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:06:03 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21671 The Church of Scientology, notoriously ruthless at crushing its critics, may have met its match.The Times joins a demo by ‘Anonymous' - the vanguard of a new internet-fuelled radicalism.

Why, though, has a bunch of young people, connected only by the internet, decided to target a US religion started 50 years ago by a science-fiction writer?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21671/scientology-the-anonymous-protestors/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21663/watchdog-web-site-goes-after-the-mormon-and-scientology-churches http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21663/watchdog-web-site-goes-after-the-mormon-and-scientology-churches#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:38:30 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21663
So many were surprised when it recently turned its sights on two lawyer-heavy religious groups: the Mormons and the Scientologists.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21663/watchdog-web-site-goes-after-the-mormon-and-scientology-churches/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21651/scientology-protester-faces-court-over-ambiguous-sign http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21651/scientology-protester-faces-court-over-ambiguous-sign#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:55:47 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21651
The banner had flaps with letter "l"s on which could be folded down over the stars.

Police decided the message on the banner was "too ambiguous" and could be taken as offensive.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21651/scientology-protester-faces-court-over-ambiguous-sign/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21642/delhi-hits-upon-a-hip-how-to-solution-the-school-of-scientology http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21642/delhi-hits-upon-a-hip-how-to-solution-the-school-of-scientology#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:27:47 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21642 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21642/delhi-hits-upon-a-hip-how-to-solution-the-school-of-scientology/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21637/group-pickets-scientology http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21637/group-pickets-scientology#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:07:46 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21637 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21637/group-pickets-scientology/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21631/scientology-dentist http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21631/scientology-dentist#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:36:31 +0000 Editor http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21631 Beasley, hired as an insurance billing clerk, said in the suit filed in Birmingham federal court last week that she was fired Oct. 22 after she said on the "Rick and Bubba" morning radio show that on her first day of work she was required to read a book by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21631/scientology-dentist/feed