{"id":2121,"date":"2010-04-04T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2010-04-04T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T14:37:35","slug":"anderson-cooper-keeps-scientology-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/anderson-cooper-keeps-scientology-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper Keeps Scientology Honest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2122\" title=\"Scientology - It must be real, they use beakers\" alt=\"Scientology - It must be real, they use beakers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Scientology-540x431.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" \/>Kudos to Anderson Cooper. There are few members of the main stream media who are willing to confront the &quot;nuttery&quot; of the church of Scientology directly. For those of you who have not been watching Anderson Cooper&#8217;s 5 part series, here is a video:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WCaRIg3u3z8<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend watching this series. Anderson not only discusses violence in Scientology, but he directly calls out it&#8217;s leader, David Miscavige. I found this series particularly interesting because I have had the opportunity to speak to a member of the Sea Org myself. The gentleman I spoke to over six months ago, confirmed that violence was a regular occurrence with the church. This former member personally described seeing a violent attack perpetrated by a ranking member of the church. As this person described, he witnessed an attack in a computer room within the celebrity center. Check out the video!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Anderson Cooper. There are few members of the main stream media who are willing to confront the &quot;nuttery&quot; of the church of Scientology directly. For those of you who have not been watching Anderson Cooper&#8217;s 5 part series, here is a video: httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WCaRIg3u3z8 I highly recommend watching this series. Anderson not only discusses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/anderson-cooper-keeps-scientology-honest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anderson Cooper Keeps Scientology Honest!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[60,161,254,478,532,682,721,727,811],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientology","tag-anderson-cooper","tag-celebrity-center","tag-david-miscavige","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-morality","tag-religion","tag-science","tag-scientology","tag-tom-cruise","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}