The Church of Fear: Inside The Weird World of Scientology

The Church of Fear: Inside The Weird World of Scientology

John Sweeney

Language: English

Pages: 368

ISBN: 1909269034

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Tom Cruise and John Travolta say the Church of Scientology is a force for good. Others disagree. Award-winning journalist John Sweeney investigated the Church for more than half a decade. During that time he was intimidated, spied on and followed and the results were spectacular: Sweeney lost his temper with the Church's spokesman on camera and his infamous 'exploding tomato' clip was seen by millions around the world. In THE CHURCH OF FEAR Sweeney tells the full story of his experiences for the first time and paints a devastating picture of this strange organisation, from former Scientologists who tell heartbreaking stories of families torn apart and lives ruined to its current followers who say it is the solution to many of mankind's problems. This is the real story of the Church by the reporter who was brave enough to take it on.

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Katy; Coffey, Jon; Harte, Alys; Stott, Chris; Hunters, Humfrey, Charlotte and Ringo. Newson, Tomiko; Sweeneys, Sam, Molly, Barbara, Bertie. The great British public who via the BBC pay my wages and who forgave my exploding tomato outburst. And to everyone who is still in. If you’ve read this far, you might consider getting out. Humanity, for all its faults and foolishness, is not as bad as you’ve been told. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Sweeney is a reporter for BBC Panorama who became a YouTube.

The lift might disappear to drop us into a pool full of killer sharks, as in a James Bond film, but I was disappointed. We were led to a large room, decorated with fake Louis Quinze furniture, and a phrase of the late Kenny Everett in his transvestite mode came to mind: ‘It’s all done in the best possible taste.’ As Bill set up, Tommy and I went over old ground: I was a bigot, he was, some say, brainwashed; I had a preset agenda; some said they were a cult. Then I asked him about the creepy.

Scientology has given her those tools to try to be a good person. I asked her about the auditing process, questions about all sorts of things, including your sex life, things that are embarrassing? ‘It is confidential.’ But they record it, I said. ‘Do they record it? No.’ Three years later we asked that very question of the Church. It said it does film auditing, but that this is not a secret and has been announced publicly. Cameras are fitted within walls to stop them being intrusive and.

Turn the other cheek. In 1967 it took on the local community around Saint Hill, suing East Grinstead Urban District Council, a teacher at a local convent school, the Chairman of the Urban District Council’s Health and Housing Committee, a farmer whose land adjoined Saint Hill Manor, and who had spoken disapprovingly of his neighbours, and thirty-eight people who had written critical things about Scientology in the papers. Most of the law suits were subsequently dropped but the Church sued the.

There anything in the exhibition that concerned you professionally? ‘If I had paranoid schizophrenia and I went to that, I would be very tempted to stop my medication at once. If I was the relative of someone with a severe illness, I’d be very upset by that because it is frightening. It uses lurid images and negative associations and false logic to decry what are effective ways of treatment.’ We went to film the ‘Industry of Death’ – the London version – from the pavement. A Scientology.

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