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1. Scientology has fought long battles for acceptance as a religion.

2. Scientology is a cereal-box religion, and reading Ron is an idle diversion that quickly becomes annoying.

3. Scientology circles were shaken by allegations that L. Ron Hubbard was dead and a group of opportunists were forging his signature.

4. Scientology has fought long battles for legal acceptance as a religion and has succeeded in many countries, including the United States.

5. Governments' antipathy to Scientology is almost as old as the organization.

6. In the rhetoric of Scientology, "suppressive persons"—or S.

7. The lessons of Hubbard's Church of Scientology are many.

8. Babbling about Scientology and displaying manic intensity on camera serves little purpose when you are famous.

9. In 1954 he founded the first Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C. By 1978 the organization claimed 38 U.S. churches, with 41 more abroad, and 172 "missions" and 5, 437, 000 members worldwide.

10. The Church of Scientology was officially founded in Los Angeles in February, 1954, by several devoted followers of Hubbard's work.

11. In the official Scientology literature, it is claimed that Hubbard was assigned by naval intelligence to infiltrate Parsons's occult group.

12. Previous targets included the Church of Scientology and the government of Zimbabwe.

13. Part of the school's curriculum is based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's "study technology."

14. According to a forthcoming book, "Inside Scientology," by the journalist Janet Reitman,(sentence dictionary) the sauna sessions can last up to five hours a day.

15. Burns and other officials said the issue is not whether Scientology is good or bad, benign or malevolent.

16. The couple, both active members of the powerful Church of Scientology, are still keen to adopt.

17. Her first public report, based partly on extensive interviews with Scientology dropouts, was issued in 1995.

18. In December, the Kohl government said it was setting up a central office to coordinate federal and state efforts against Scientology.

19. Anonymous rose to fame with a series of attacks on websites linked to the Church of Scientology and Gene Simmons, bassist with the rock group Kiss.

20. "This type of reporting, " he added, "is no different than reports by United States news outlets reporting on various cults, from David Koresh to Sun Myung Moon to Scientology . "

21. It's little more than a fancy small-scale version of a Scientology e-meter, a gadget that picks up on noise in the environment and makes a needle on a dial wiggle.

22. "For ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego, " Haggis wrote.

23. The initials stand for L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, whose extensive writings and lectures form the church's scripture.

24. The anchor John Roberts asked Davis about the church's policy of "disconnection," in which members are encouraged to separate themselves from friends or family members who criticize Scientology.

25. In the process, he developed the "research" that led him to discover "Dianetics" and Scientology, the answers to most of mankind's ills.

26. On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis.

27. The decision to cast Cruise in the role has caused anger in Germany because of his strong links to the Church of Scientology , which is regarded here as a sect.

28. "When you started off, they weren't really pushing it, but as you progressed through the Playhouse's levels Scientology became more of a focus," he told me.

29. He had convinced himself that a "central agency" was behind attacks against Scientology, and his suspicion focused on the World Federation for Mental Health.

30. "It's not a sense of humor you often encounter among people who believe in Scientology, " Herskovitz continued.