Note Parallels with WELS/ELS Abuse. Exclusive: Actress Leah Remini quits Scientology - NYPOST.com

Exclusive: Actress Leah Remini quits Scientology - NYPOST.com:

Exclusive: Actress Leah Remini quits Scientology after years of 'interrogations'

• Last Updated: 11:14 AM, July 11, 2013
• Posted: 12:17 AM, July 11, 2013

“King of Queens” star Leah Remini is making a dramatic break from the Church of Scientology, a source said, after being subjected to years of “interrogations” and “thought modification” for questioning leader David Miscavige’s rule.

The source tells us Remini is quitting because of policies that don’t allow parishioners to question Miscavige’s management or the reported abuse of members of its Sea Org religious order — and for forcing followers to “disconnect” from family members branded as “suppressive persons” if they choose to leave the church.

Leah Remini

“It all began when Leah questioned the validity of excommunication of people,” a source said of her decision. “She is stepping back from a regime she thinks is corrupt. She thinks no religion should tear apart a family or abuse someone under the umbrella of ‘religion.’ ”

Former Sea Org member Mike Rinder blogged this week that at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 2006 wedding, Remini innocently asked where Miscavige’s wife, Shelly, was. Former Scientology Celebrity Centre head Tommy Davis scolded her, “You don’t have the [bleeping] rank to ask about Shelly.” Mrs. Miscavige reportedly hasn’t been seen in public since 2007.

As a result, Remini “was put through interrogations and blacklisted within the church that she donated millions to and that her family has spent their lives in. She was put through ‘thought modification’ for five years,” our source said.

The source added that church friends Remini had for “25 to 30 years wrote internal reports” about her that “caused an investigation on her family.”

Someone close to Remini said she’s weighing going public “when she sees what the church tries to do. She has heard they use people to scare you into silence.”

The source added, “She’s from Brooklyn. The church can’t hurt her . . . they don’t have her family, that’s all that matters to her.” And, “It’s not about wanting or not wanting to do Scientology . . . The issue is that [Miscavige] is taking down this church and hurting people and families.”

A Scientology rep denied all allegations.

'via Blog this'

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GJ - Blogger is in a bad mood today, so I have to post and revise and recover and edit again.

Everything posted above, against Scientology, is true of WELS and the ELS. The WELS leaders use hatchet men to chop up anyone who is gumming up the UOJ juggernaut. Pope John the Malefactor does his own wet work, as the Mob calls it, even against his fellow UOJ fanatics.

One can also find similar behavior in the LCMS, but it is watered down by its loose federation of conflicting dogmas and money sources. Matt Harrison has his own Miscavige - Paul McCain - which should warn anyone about the status of that organization.

When the Arizona-California District of WELS finally had its conference to "discuss" UOJ, DP Buchholz had already excommunicated Paul Rydecki and his congregation. Therefore, everyone there was afraid to "discuss" the topic. Nobody said anything, according to reports.

Imagine the first apostolic conference in the Book of Acts going the same way. Pope Peter has excommunicated everyone who disagreed with him. "Any questions? Does anyone want to move the previous question? Motion, second. Passed. We are so united in one doctrine. Amen? Say amen - now."

Deputy Doug Engelbrecht's district (WELS) has watched that comedy of errors. A pastor known for sexual harassment in his own congregation is the regional sex ed teacher for WELS. Just the guy we need for the WELS high school!

Instead of marching him out the door with a cardboard box full of his celebrity photos, Engelbrecht promised St. Peter Freedom that Ski would be back as pastor in a few months. Now that has changed to - not as a pastor - but back in a few months.

But thunder, lightning and wrath for anyone who questioned the sanctity of Ski, Glende, Engelbrecht (in descending order)!

Why do WELS leaders violate the Ten Commandments to get even? Because they are sure in their abusive sect mentality that their targets richly deserve the treatment.

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Scientology deaths - strange and unprosecuted.

You do not rank high enough to ask about murders committed by WELS church workers.

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No wonder many priests and bishops accused of sexual assault of minors, or covering it up, end up at the Vatican. One assumed that prosecutors just wouldn't prosecute there, or agree to extradite priests and bishops. It was worse than that. Only in 2013 has the Vatican put laws on the books criminalizing sexual assault of minors and child pornography, and that comes only ahead of a UN probe that says the Vatican doesn't protect minors from such abuse:

The Vatican finally outlaws child pornography and sexual assault

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_VATICAN_POPE_LAWS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-07-11-08-23-00

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State on Thursday, criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing sexual violence, prostitution and possession of child pornography as crimes against children that can be punished by up to 12 years in prison.

The legislation covers clergy and lay people who live and work in Vatican City and is different from the canon law which covers the universal Catholic Church.

It was issued at a critical time, as the Vatican gears up for a grilling by a U.N. committee on its efforts to protect children under a key U.N. convention and prevent priests from sexually abusing them.

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GJ - John Paul II was quite active in covering up for priestly sex offenders. He rewarded Cardinal Law for the Boston debacle with a choice job in the Vatican, a promotion, and a chance to get away from the American press.

Likewise, WELS moved Tabor to dah UP, which made him hard to reach for the ongoing investigation of the murder of his wife in Milwaukee. His mistress pulled the trigger, but one might say this WELS pastor aimed the pistol.

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Ms. Remini should have written a letter to Miscavige, that would have gotten the discussion rolling. Works in the WELS, doesn't it?

GJ - I sent a certified letter to SP Schroeder and two WELS pastors. Not one of them answered and Schroeder claimed he never got it. His signature said otherwise.

"WELS Delay on the NNIV Is a Ruse" - Buying Time To Let Opposition Subside

Signals intelligence intercepted this message from a WELS bigwig:

"The NNIV will more than likely be ratified and that this postponement was merely a pressure valve to let the layman, and pastors who object, let off steam."

Someone asked me, "Is there any real opposition to the NNIV?"

There is at the moment. At the district conventions the NNIV was as popular as a driving lesson from Lindsay Lohan.

However, the California-Arizona-Las Vegas district of WELS was against Jeff Gunn's quasi-Babtist emergent congregation for years, but just had a luv-fest welcoming  them into membership in WELS. Those who opposed the Rick Warren copycat were told to repent.

This is typical Diaprax. Let everyone have a say. Let them debate. Let them blow off steam. Form a committee. Form two committees. Then fix the vote that matters and call it a victory for the democratic process and God's will.

That is how WELS got rid of Northwestern College, and they never had the votes. That did not matter. The sheep were told they had lost - a lie. The sheep bleated a few years and watched the Gurgle crew blow $30 million on the cash-saving merger of the two colleges. The $30 million is rumored, but the $8 million claim was fictional. Pick a figure. You don't know the SP's salary and benefits. Do you think the actual figures are your business? Hmm?

I noticed WELS' radical Left substance from the beginning, because I already experienced the radical takeover of the Lutheran Church in America. Some of the best theologians of America came from that tradition - and from The ALC, in the distant past. No one would guess that now.

Constant deception is the main feature of WELS. That is why they want nothing published outside their little mimeograph room at The Love Shack. All independent publications are dangerous because the truth would come out - about the false doctrine, unionism, murders, child molestations, embezzlements, etc. That is why they manage and control Herman Otten energetically.

Here are some obvious examples - the claim versus the truth:

• WELS is in fellowship only with the ELS.
• WELS works with ELCA on many different projects, with all religions via Thrivent, and sends their leaders to Fuller, Willow Creek, and Trinity Divinity - skimming offering dollars to accomplish their re-education program.
• WELS subscribes to the Book of Concord - quia, no less.
• WELS constantly teaches against the Confessions and turns out pastors who loath the Book of Concord as much as the professors in the system - not that anyone actually knows the content. 
• WELS believes in the inerrancy of the Scriptures and despises the liberals who do not.
• WELS is promoting the worst translation, really a lame paraphrase, of the Bible, one spawned by the worst apostates. They gladly work with all denominations, even Roman Catholics, but deny it. SP Schroeder just signed a statement with all denominations and the Muslims. Did Brenner need the Muslims behind him? The Catholics?
• WELS is ultra-conservative and strict, very tough on discipline.
• Hahahahaha. They are far to the left of Missouri. Like all mainline National of Council Churches, they punish those who adhere to the original statement of faith or the olden days practices (closed communion). They reward the apostates who follow their example in training at Fuller Seminary. Their abuse of members is legendary. Question Holy Mother WELS - Left Foot of Fellowship. No due process - just the boot. Plagiarism is rewarded with cash grants, loans, and speaking engagements in WELS.
• WELS practices closed communion.
• WELS put the pressure on mission pastors to practice open communion, or at least don't ask don't tell communion - 20 years ago.
• WELS opposes women's ordination.
• WELS promotes women's ordination. They handed Brug the priceless J. P. Meyer dog notes and made him dogmatics professor because he studied Hebrew. Brug approved women's ordination about 15 years ago - in The Popes Speak - the official journal of WELS, aka WLQ. Church and Change has set up young female ministers all over the place and promoted them via FICL.
• WELS ministers are heterosexuals.
• The majority probably are, but there are too many incidents of homosexual pastors and staff getting into trouble which, like a DUI, is a sign of much more of the same. That indicates a network. A DP's tolerance of a known homosexual pastor, and the SP's do-nothing attitude, both suggest another don't ask don't tell policy. You can decode the data - mattress room, the Fox Valley arrest, the pastor who died of AIDS, etc. And that is what has come to me from many different and varied sources.
• WELS is a Lutheran church body. 
• WELS is really an anti-Lutheran sect, exemplified by rancid Pietism, a reversal of Law and Gospel, and an unearned smugness for being superior. All the money - and power - has been on the side of copying Fuller, Willow Creek, and the rest of mainline Evangelical morons, ever since 1977. Preparation for the radicalism began earlier, according to my source, known only as California. WELS hates Luther's doctrine and despises justification by faith. Try to find a leader in WELS who can articulate the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, or why they need to repent. There are some, but they will never be heard, never be tolerated for a second. 
• WELS got rid of Church and Change, so it is becoming more confessional.
• WELS got rid of the Church and Change website, but the WELS-funded group had already spawned many clones to continue their demon-anointed work of destroying the Lutheran Church. They get constant support from SP Mark Schroeder. Paul Kelm has been the most visible spokesman, first at Church and Change, now at Wisconsin Lutheran College, which begat C and C (with Fox Valley pastors). Except for very brief pastoral careers, Kelm has been on the synod dole for most of his career.

If you believe the blue text, you are happy in an abusive, mainline sect.

If the red text is starting to make sense, count yourself lucky if you have a faithful pastor who does not have a secret I Heart Groeschel tattoo.

WELS is not as bad as Scientology, but the parallels are startling, including physical abuse during the GA initiation rite at Mequon (which continues still). WELS and Scientology have an obsession with maintaining a holier-than-thou image, calling anyone with the facts "a liar" and worse.

Perhaps the Mormon religion is a closer parallel. People need to accept a different reality to imagine that Mormonism is true and reasonable. As our friend with the double doctorate from Yale said, "You take the classes and one day, either walk away from the absurdities, or snap and accept everything."

Tom Cruise and Scientology

Some people are exposing the actual doctrines of Scientology. They have vowed to destroy it. The cult is strange and abusive, but there are a number of high-profile adherents. Hollywood makes fun of traditional Christianity but defends Cruise.

Click this link for a scary Tom Cruise interview.

Some well known Scientologists include:
Tom Cruise and his third wife.
John Travolta.
Kirsti Alley.
The woman who does the voice for Bart Simpson.
When Kirk Douglas gave an award to Travolta, the Grease star held the aging actor's head firmly and kissed him on the mouth.

L. Ron Hubbard began Scientology with his book Dianetics. Recently I found a book trying to unite all secret mystery religions. The poor slob spent 20 years studying them all and finding universal truths in them. He was close to being included as a member in one of them. He said he declined. Maybe he was lying.

The book made a good point about all the secret religions being similar. Same author - Satan, I would say.

Some young women identify with Wicca (witchcraft) as a means of obtaining power or meaning in life. When something like that comes up in class, there is also noise for neo-paganism or an affinity with an earlier religion. One student announced she was an ordained priestess of Egyptian paganism. She was also extraordinarily rude with everyone else.