The Church of Scientology is well known for its celebrity following and the intergalactic warrior lord Xenu – who you can only learn about after climbing a paywall of courses worth many thousands of dollars. But who you don’t often hear from are the employees of the Church, who can be forced to work incredibly long hours for a tiny wage.
In this episode of Informer, we speak to a former employee of the Church of Scientology, who was pressured into signing a work contract, had his passport taken off him, and regularly worked 80 hour weeks to earn under £5,000 a year.
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I didn’t realize that any one person could be any worse than anyone else at talking with a mask on. After several videos in this series, I stand corrected.
This reminds me of primerica
I hear that they were paid like $50 a week and they take taxes out of that after working all day, hard labor, and with little food and dirty water. I’ve been watching Tubi the Scientology in the aftermath. It’s totally a cult and they are so powerful. They own so much real estate and it’s billions dollars of an empire. I hope the FBI and IRS Can dismantle this cult of Scientology. They are not doing anything for the community and they are still labeled as a church and tax exempt so that means we the taxpayers to pay more money and I live in Florida not far away from Clearwater, but Clearwater police doesn’t want to do anything. This cult sued the IRS while they were under investigation. They had a lot of private investigators attacking the IRS employees until they couldn’t take more of the harassment and stalking so IRS all of a sudden gave up and gave them the right to tax exemption. They govern themselves they have their own law enforcement. they don’t believe in Psychiatrist and children are treated as adults and a lot of them have been molested and abused and have worked and are probably still currently working all day long hard labor. You would think this was a third world country thing, but it’s happening here in our backyards today. I love the show with Remini on Tubi. Must watch. If people come forward and file civil lawsuits suits against this so-called church then they would have a chance but because of their policies which is to attack people who are against them are so afraid of this cult than it will just continue until people stand up and come forward. God bless the people who escaped and to all the families that were disconnected by this cult. I hope a lot of people come out and escape and use their freedom of speech.
Brainwashing is a powerful thing .
If you are not strong minded you are sucked into religion. Unless you’re born into these cults, most people are lonely and are searching for something that’s missing in their lives . It all needs to be stopped .
What happens to you if you just run away and leave ??