SF writer Jerry Pournelle was friends with Elron back in the late forties, early fifties, when both were members of the LA chapter of SFWA(Science Fiction Writers of America). He recalled, in an article he wrote, about how Elron would talk about how the best and easiest way to get rich in the US was to start a religion. Hmmmm

We are taught as little children to believe in all kinds of magical things that have no basis in reality, because "miracles" or "angels" etc. So my question is: Why wouldn't we be susceptible to joining the first cult that comes along?

I love to watch anything concerning these charlatins. It really exempifies how easily some people are to bamboozal. VICE is a great channel in that there is content unavailable anywhere else accept maybe YOUTUBE. Not everything is to my liking but what is?

I too sat down to watch a bit of their new channel. I could only take a half hour of it. I watched the segment on the Humanity campaign in Colombia. It really made no sense and only proves what Mike Rinder has said about their propaganda. It's pretty crude and mindless, lots of fluff and pretty pictures, but no real there there.

The fact they have resorted to creating this TV channel to get their message out only shows how effective both the Going Clear documentary and Leah Ramini's Scientology and the Aftermath have been. The history of this religion's shady practices and outright bullying are well documented and notorious. And even to this day, they continue their underhanded tactics of smearing former members, the latest being against filmmaker Paul Haggis.

I never quite understood the appeal of Scientology, even in it's heyday of the 80's. I was briefly courted by them and thankfully based on the advice of an older friend, I avoided getting to deep with them beyond an intial meeting. My friend recommended I do some research into them, and so I did. What I found convinced me Hubbard and his "church" was a scam. What amazed me is for how long they have stayed around. But now, I think they are in a serious decline by their own former members.

L. Ron Hubbard was a crazy ass meglomaniacal lunatic who has conned hundreds of thousands of people out of billions of dollars. Anyone who seriously tries to verify anything about Hubbard's claims would soon realize what a nut job this man truly was. It's one thing to laugh and scorn the people who got involved with Scientology by their own volition, it's another when two and three generations have grown up in it.

I hope their new TV channel shows the rest of us what a con job this organization truly is.

Huh?

I watched the show with the actress Leah Remini a few times and had no idea what Scientology was all about. After reading this article still no idea.

Do people really think their personality will change when your appendix is removed? lol