This is just speculation on my part, but considering the police chief noted that the boy had a family member in the church i wouldn't be surprised if he had been denied access to see that family member, as they were undergoing some kind of indoctrination therapy as this cult has been shown to do in the past. I know i would get pretty angry if one of my loved family members were conned into the Scientology scheme somehow, particularly since the law can't help you in any way if they enter onto the premises willingly. I'm sad for the family who have lost a loved one in this attack, but this "church" only destroys lives and i will not be even a bit surprised if the they played a role in this.
I'm actually suprised there hasn't been more violence against scientology centers given their well documented history of abusing people families and tormenting those that leave the church by any means possible.
Someday this tax dodge will collapse, but it'd take a lot of good people to stand up and against it.
They also avoided mentioning if the boy himself was a member of the cult, if he was this could have been an escape attempt.
I doubt it was an escape attempt, as multiple witnesses saw him being "escorted" from the premises. The police chief did however mention the incident was related to a domestic dispute the prior day. Further speculation would lead me to suspect the boy attempted contact with his family member that previous day but had been denied access and so decided to bring a knife with him the next day to force his way in if necessary, as i mentioned the police would have no power to intervene. The kid didn't resist arrest and dropped the knife when requested, so i find it hard to believe he was acting with a purely malicious intent.
I didn't even know Scientology was in Australia
nobody's gone after them because the religious right would have a freak out about the government snuffing out a church, even though they are a cult.
I nearly forgot they were. You never see them in public and the only advertising they seem to do is hidden behind a guise of something else.
Yea, current as from the Austrailian 2016 census that there 1,684 official Scientologists left where 12 years ago were 2,507 Scientologists.
After enough time Scientology will graduate from cult to religion. It will still be a cult but it will have more legitimacy.
I doubt that greatly. They have been brought into the light and exposed too much for anyone to treat them as a religion any more. You would need to wait until everyone currently alive dies of old age, even then their disgusting history will be in the books forever. Unlike the bygone years of religion, things are properly documented now and one cannot escape a dirty past like that.
their membership is down and lots of the upper level have left the church of scientology over the way they run things. They're going to end up like westborough baptist church, collapse on into themselves when their charismatic leader is the only one left to hold up the roof.
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