Filmmaker to Spill The Scientology Expose We've Been Waiting For

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The Scientology Expose We've Been Waiting For

The Scientology Expose We've Been Waiting ForNew Yorker staff writer and Looming Tower author Lawrence Wright is writing what his agent calls "the most profound reckoning to date" with Scientology, told through the eyes of director and apostate Paul Haggis. This should be good.

Haggis spent 35 years as a Scientologist before angrily and publicly ditching the cult in 2009 after he became convinced that leader David Miscavige is a violent nut. He hasn't spoken publicly about Scientology since, but a "blown" celebrity (to use the Scientological term for leaving the fold) like Haggis is Scientology's worst possible nightmare—it can smear and threaten rank-and-file detractors all it wants, but when one of its former leading lights is making the charges, it's harder to strike back.

Wright is a meticulous and muscular reporter, so the two men collaborating to tell the story of Scientology from the inside will be a very big deal. The book, which doesn't have a publisher yet, will be called The Heretic of Hollywood: Paul Haggis vs.The Church of Scientology and will explore both founder L. Ron Hubbard's life and Haggis' personal investigation into Miscavige's violence, the enslavement of "Sea Org" volunteers, and forced abortions for church workers, according to a catalog from Wright's agent Andrew Wylie that was pointed out to us by a tipster. Full text of the catalog copy is below.

Wright has mentioned the project before in interviews, and indicated that it grew out of a New Yorker story that hasn't yet run.

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http://gawker.com/5725832/the-scientology-expose-weve-been-waiting-for?skyline=true&s=i

[MadHound]

1. No better, and no worse, than the much bigger cult gripping this country,

The Christian church.

[The Straight Story]

2. And in Israel they have the jewish cult, Afghanistan the muslim cult, and some have the:

My beliefs are better than yours and I am going to tell others how to live their life cult (they actually worship the deity Nanny).

[tavalon]

3. I prefer The Flying Spaghetti Monster and of course, Bob,

from The Church of the Subgenius. Two of the better religions out there. I would guess that this would cause me to have the big Scarlet A for Atheist on my chest, but I'm not. I'm a card carrying believer as are most of us who had near death experiences. It doesn't mean I have to take it all so damn seriously. And my mental construct for what is out there, beyond this, yadda, yadda, doesn't have to match yours or yours or even theirs.

[madrchsod]

4. i used to read all the Scientology publications where i worked.

it`s a big scam to sell e-meters and drain people of their money. those sea org publications were really, really creepy. the worse one was when tom cruise was presented with the first sea org gold medal.

other organized religions are not the same as scientology.

[NeoGreen]

5. They are the same in net results...