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Then Lawrence Wright joins us in the studio. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of a new book, just out, “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief”. We discuss this new and incredibly wealthy church that the IRS has designated as a tax-exempt religion, to try to determine its secret belief systems and what it contributes to mankind as a religion. We investigate the brutal and sadistic tactics it employs against its own followers and former members. And while many of its members, who are trapped in secret locations work around the clock for slave wages, the Church’s leader lives the lavish lifestyle of a billionaire, cultivating Scientology’s celebrity front-men Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
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