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The UK's most popular tabloid newspaper, The Sun, has a 2-page spread today on Going Clear and it slams Scientology. To see it online you need a subscription but the headlines are here:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ology-followers-drop-after-more-scandals.html
Some of the bullet points:
"Scientology has only 50,000 members around the world, according to Going Clear, while the cult boasts it has millions"
"The film says American Scientology membership fell from 55,000 in 2001 to 25,000 in 2008, yet it claims to gain 4.4 million new members every year"
"Membership of Scientology's Clearwater HQ alone has plunged by 50 per cent since the film premiered in January"
The article talks about John Travolta being scared to leave, and it also discusses the Cruise/Kidman situation.
The Sun interviewed Hana Eltringham Whitfield and she talked about Hubbard's cruelty and temper tantrums. It was Hana who gave them the quote above about Clearwater membership being reduced by 50 per cent - she said someone told her this.
Of course they had to get the CofS's reply to the article. They describe Hana as "a murderer or co-conspirator" and they say the film's claims are "false and seriously misleading" and that the CofS is "expanding at a tremendous rate".
The article ends by mentioning that Going Clear is in cinemas on Friday.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ology-followers-drop-after-more-scandals.html
Some of the bullet points:
"Scientology has only 50,000 members around the world, according to Going Clear, while the cult boasts it has millions"
"The film says American Scientology membership fell from 55,000 in 2001 to 25,000 in 2008, yet it claims to gain 4.4 million new members every year"
"Membership of Scientology's Clearwater HQ alone has plunged by 50 per cent since the film premiered in January"
The article talks about John Travolta being scared to leave, and it also discusses the Cruise/Kidman situation.
The Sun interviewed Hana Eltringham Whitfield and she talked about Hubbard's cruelty and temper tantrums. It was Hana who gave them the quote above about Clearwater membership being reduced by 50 per cent - she said someone told her this.
Of course they had to get the CofS's reply to the article. They describe Hana as "a murderer or co-conspirator" and they say the film's claims are "false and seriously misleading" and that the CofS is "expanding at a tremendous rate".
The article ends by mentioning that Going Clear is in cinemas on Friday.
