![]() Miscavige Hill's story suggests that the open society we inhabit still includes enclaves where authoritarian religious values are forced on innocent children. And maybe I can get to people who are inside, and plant a seed of doubt." "I hope to discourage new people from being lured into Scientology, as well as helping people whose loved ones are in there. ![]() "I want to turn this horrible part of my life into something that has a good purpose," she says. ![]() For an insider to speak out is rare, but her testimony is rarer still: Groomed for leadership from earliest childhood, she says she has direct experience of the church's indoctrination process and can speak with personal authority about an upbringing in which child labour, family separation, arbitrary punishment and psychological bullying were sanctioned by the church. Miscavige Hill says Scientology makes it hard for devotees to leave the faith, and most who do depart go quietly, since the church threatens its dissidents with severe reprisals. ![]()
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