Guest post: 20 reasons the Church of Scientology is a cult and a fraud - 2015-05-07

Guest post: 20 reasons the Church of Scientology is a cult and a fraud May 7, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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One of the many things the Church of Scientology has done as a reaction to Alex Gibney's documentary, Going Clear, is to post numerous letters it wrote to Gibney and HBO in the lead-up to the film's release, as well as in its aftermath.

Collected at the website of its propaganda magazine, Freedom, the letters vary in their interest for us. But one of them is really something to behold. It's a long exegesis by one of Scientology's longest-serving and most notable attorneys, Eric M. Lieberman (pictured).

Lieberman's letter is addressed to two of HBO's attorneys, and was sent on March 19, six days after Going Clear debuted in theaters for its short run in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco to qualify it for Oscar consideration. (A little birdie tells us that the movie is going to get another theater run in the Fall, so Scientology has that to look forward to — and you heard it here first.)

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