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A Times Editorial // Scientology's ugly truths revealed

Title: A Times Editorial // Scientology's ugly truths revealed
Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Publisher: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Main source: tampabay.com

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Scientology calls itself a religion and claims to offer purpose and meaning to its members. Yet for some who worked in the church's militaristic Sea Organization, Scientology provided something different: physical punishment, humiliation, beatings, sleep deprivation, and long and ruinous separation from loved ones. The stories of 11 former staffers, reported in a St. Petersburg Times special report Sunday, are told with such detail and emotional heft that the church's official denials of abuse ring hollow. It takes courage to challenge ... [Read the rest at tampabay.com]