Scientology
Thursday September 15, 2011
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The Scientology cult is facing a class action in Australia over claims it underpaid former workers. Earlier this week it was revealed that a draft report by the Fair Work Ombudsman had found the church had wrongly classified employees as volunteers. Law firm Slater and Gordon has also been looking into the claims and says under the Fair Work Act, those employees and ex-employees are owed large sums of money in wages, holiday pay, overtime and superannuation.
Tuesday September 13, 2011
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A draft report by Australia’s industrial umpire into the Scientology cult says the group could have potentially breached laws dealing with slavery by underpaying its staff. The report contains allegations of false imprisonment and forced labour.
Monday July 11, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: 
The Church of Scientology is threatening to sue a volunteer organisation for publishing a brochure it claims labels the ‘religion’ a ”cult.” But the Cult Information and Family Support (CIFS) group, which helps victims of cults and their families, refuses to bow to the demands of the Scientologists, saying they will continue their ”humanitarian support work”
Wednesday July 6, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: 
A group of Scientology goons trying to discredit one of the cult’s most influential ex-members by filming and surveilling him in his hometown of Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, plans to continue its activities — described by law enforcement as harassment — despite a new city ordinance. The hate group has a lengthy history of hate- and harassment activities.
Thursday June 30, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: 
A court in a Moscow suburb has banned works by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The destructive cult has a lengthy record of hate and harassment activities, as well as other unethical behavior that was condoned and encouraged by Hubbard (see, for example, Dead Agenting and Fair Game).
Tuesday June 21, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: 
If there’s one thing religion reporters, cult experts and former cult victims know about Scientology is that this cult is better at producing utter nonsense than any other so-called ‘New Religious Movement’ out there. The ‘Church’ is trying to convince non-members and followers alike that it is doing well. But note what happened to the famous Scientologists in this Scientology sing-along.
Thursday June 16, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: Jan Eastgate (also known as Janice Meyer), a senior member of the Church of Scientology accused of coaching a child to lie about sex abuse, has had her bail relaxed so she can travel to California. Outside the Sydney court house her fellow Scientologists violently attacked the media.
Monday May 30, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: One of the Church of Scientology’s most senior figures, Jan Eastgate, has been arrested and charged in Sydney, ABC — the Australian Broadcasting Corporation — reports. She has been charged with perverting the course of justice, in relation to allegations she coached an 11-year-old girl to lie to police and community services about the sexual abuse she suffered from her stepfather who was a member of the Church of Scientology.
Eastgate is the international president of the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, an front group founded by the Church of Scientology that engages in hate campaigns against psychiatry.
Friday April 29, 2011
Quackery • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: The Church of Scientology has been blitzing Melbourne with its so-called ‘Oxford Capacity Analysis’ — a ‘personality test’ used by the cult as a recruitment tool.Professionals note that the test has no standing in the professional community of psychology practitioners and researchers.
Tuesday April 26, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: 
The Church of Scientology — a cult marketing quackery and other nonsense under the guise of religion — has just bought itself a bigger pulpit. KCET-TV has sold its landmark Sunset Boulevard studio to the cult, which plans to use it to counter the mostly negative flow of news reports about the organization.
Monday March 14, 2011
Quackery • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology • Spiritual Abuse: 
Nowadays it seems that wherever there is a disaster, so-called ‘Scientology Volunteer Ministers’ show up. Sometimes they pass out food and supplies, but more often than not their real purpose is to ‘assist’ people with the quackery ‘techniques’ thought up by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
Saturday March 5, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: A runaway from the Church of Scientology‘s restrictive religious order, the Sea Org, alleges in two lawsuits filed Friday that the church violated California laws regulating child labor, wages and school attendance.
Friday February 25, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: After just two hours of deliberation, an Adams County jury found Rex Fowler guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of his former business partner.
Thursday February 17, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: 
The upcoming first-degree murder trial of an Adams County business owner with links to the Church of Scientology will be about the facts of the case and not the defendant’s religion, the presiding judge has said.Thursday February 10, 2011
RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology: Paul Haggis is making headlines around the world for denouncing the Church of Scientology, but the Oscar-winning director doesn’t think the rebuke will affect his career — but he is already aware of the consequences.
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According to the official website of the Church of Scientology the word ‘Scientology’ literally means “the study of truth.” It claims that “Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths.”
At the same time it says that “In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true.”
Critics have labeled Scientology as everything from a dangerous cult run by amateur psychologists to a scam exploiting money from its members, writes Herón Márquez.
“We don’t expect mainstream religions to lie, to exploit people, to engage in illegal activity,” said David Touretzky, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “Scientology is not a true religion, because it does all of these things.”
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