Religion Dispatches
Kate Bornstein’s new book recounts the years before Scientology was considered a religion, when it gave her all the answers on gender, loss, and addiction she needed not to hear. Sounds just like… bad religion.
Read MoreEven when a religion deserves criticism how much is too much?
Read MoreThe disgraced preacher takes the “kingdom” to the next level of church pimping.
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A participant at a holistic spa was, it turns out, “cooked to death.” Instead of another wave of panic, maybe we need to rethink our categories.
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For the past half-decade, Scientology has responded to withering attacks with a variety of aggressive and secretive tactics, drawing comparisons to the CIA and FBI. After a recent report alleging the use of violence, however, the church has responded by hiring an ‘independent’ panel of editors and journalists to produce a 20-page assessment of the report.
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When the media labels a religious group a “cult,” it fans the flames of intolerance and can endanger the group’s most vulnerable members.
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From traders rubbing the testicles of the New York Stock Exchange’s Golden Bull to the pantheon of saints, soothsayers and heretics who haunt it, the Free Market has earned its status as a cult.
Read MoreSamurai sword-wielding Mario Majorski blamed his problems on the Church of Scientology—and he may have been right.
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