{"id":49000,"date":"2015-03-24T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_scientology_to_refute_damning_accusations_before_debut_of_a_new_h\/"},"modified":"2015-03-24T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T17:00:28","slug":"church_of_scientology_to_refute_damning_accusations_before_debut_of_a_new_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49000","title":{"rendered":"Church of Scientology to refute damning accusations before debut of a new HBO documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film,Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, is based on Lawrence Wright\u2019s similarly titled book-length expos\u00c3\u00a9 and will premiere on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Since news emerged of the documentary, Scientologists have been trying to counter the film\u2019s arguments which isn\u2019t at all surprising considering Scientology\u2019s notorious methods for dealing with its critics in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The film, itself, covers one such stoush the Church had with the US Internal Revenue Service who was ready to rule that Scientology should pay tax because it isn\u2019t a religion.<\/p>\n<p>David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology, retaliated by persuading thousands of Scientologists to sue individual officials of the agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/technology\/techknow\/the-church-of-scientology-has-taken-to-the-internet-to-refute-damning-accusations-in-a-new-hbo-documentary\/story-fni0byoa-1227276770275\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film,Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, is based on Lawrence Wright\u2019s similarly titled book-length expos\u00c3\u00a9 and will premiere on March 29. Since news emerged of the documentary, Scientologists have been trying to counter the film\u2019s arguments which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49000\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,133,93,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-movies-television","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}