"we keep people imprisoned and torture them routinely

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qgq919yl5o

Anyone that does not immediately renounce the religion is no longer eligible for benefit of the doubt, even if they were raised in the religion, even if they tether reject part of the beliefs.

Hate to break it to you, but if scientology is doing this level of horror to people in the name of their beliefs, it hasn't made the news recently.

https://theconversation.com/violent-buddhist-extremists-are-targeting-muslims-in-sri-lanka-92951

Haven't seen any bombings by scientology yet, though I wouldn't be surprised.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64658648

But, no true Christian would do such a thing.

If you're arguing that scientology is somehow worse than any of that, I would say malarkey.

As nasty as scientology can get, as much as they need to be shut down, they aren't even close you the kind of insanity of any of that.

I don't care what word you want to apply to it. Cult, religion, idgaf. Call it whatever you want. But whatever you want to label things, I object just as much to literal terrorism and murder, no matter who does it.

You know who hasn't done anything like any of this? Emily Armstrong. The worst thing she's done is show up in court with a bunch of other brainwashed members of the group. That's it.

If she is responsible for things she didn't do, just because someone in the same organization did them, then everyone is responsible for the acts of the worst of their organization.

Seriously, how does nobody have anything in the way of proof she did anything illegal, dangerous, or even bad? Everyone is all whiny about her still being associated with scientology, like she's some kind of ringleader instead of someone that's stuck just as much because "we keep people imprisoned and torture them routinely and steal all our members income while we take their children from them". If the cult is that bad, why is she expected to be the one to take a stand?

It's bullshit. And that's the point. I genuinely do not give a stinking shit what kind of semantics you want to fuck with. You do you, I'm done with that part of things because it has never been the point.

You got anything, any shred of proof that Emily Armstrong did any of the illegal acts that scientology has carried out? Because, again, I've gone looking, and there's jack shit online. If anything, she's just another victim of scientology via her parents. I get that the lady that masterson assaulted gets a pass for ranting at the wrong person. She gets that after what she went through. But nobody in this entire thread, nor in the YouTube comments, or on any of the social media platforms currently swamped by people that did not give a flying fuck about scientology two weeks ago have managed to dig up anything Armstrong has done other than sit in a courtroom.

That's it. That's her crime.