From a LiveNews opinion piece entitled Scientology is not a cult:

One of the main accusations levelled against the Church is brainwashing. But if brainwashing means changing people for the better permanently – even in ways they might not yet understand – surely that’s a good thing. Isn’t that what we do to children every day?

And if removing people from their families if they only have psychically toxic relationships with them is bad then we have a very warped view of how people should live their lives. After all you can choose your friends, but not your family.

The Church is also picked on because of its opposition to psychiatry. But all it hopes to do is show that an industry that specialises in prescribing people anti-depressants an other medications without solving underlying issues like previous life or past life traumas is - pardon the pun - crazy.

Some Anonymous fell for it, calling the author a cult mouthpiece, but some Scientologists fell for it as well and praised the author for telling it like it is.

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