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Post by QueSeraSera on Feb 6, 2018 3:45:56 GMT
I understand that churches don’t pay taxes here ,Scientology to me is a sect but their followers see it has a church . So what are their requirement can you worship Satan and still be consider it to be a church and not pay taxes ? How does it work . I wish the United States would require a public interest test like other countries have in place for a group to receive tax exempt status. Charity groups and religions not contributing to anything but their own coffers should pay taxes. I don't care what anyone believes as long as they're not hurting other people. For most groups it is pretty much just turning in the correct paperwork to the IRS. Scientology lost their tax exempt status once before and then they began the largest ever infiltration of the US government. The IRS finally relented after years of harassment. They sued IRS employees, spied on them, and made their lives a living hell. This is a dangerous and lethal group. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_WhiteThey killed Lisa McPherson with their "religious practices". Google her story. Heartbreaking. They also own the Narconon drug clinics. Google them. Lots of people die from the treatments which are all Scientology practices. Leah Remini's documentary series got me interested in researching this group.
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 6, 2018 12:22:26 GMT
When I was a teenager I was stopped on the street, asked to answer 3 questions and ended up going into their offices and doing a "quick" survey. I was desperate to leave as I was actually meant to be working ( taking money to the bank) and got stuck there "waiting" while they processed my results. Of course I needed lots of " counselling" that needed to start the next day! I said I was leaving to go on holiday and managed to leave.
Stupid me- had given them my address. My mum continued to receive expensive, glossy brochures from them for many years- even tried to contact them and say I no longer lived there. I moved back into my old family home 15 years later and they were STILL sending me stuff even though I had never given them a cent of my money.
It has always made me wonder how much money they really have- they spent a lot of me with no return! I haven't watched the Leah Rimni shows but I did watch Louis Theroux movie on Scientology and I am quite intrigued by how people are taken in by them.
Corinne
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