SCIENTOLOGY: THE END IS NEAR!
Celebrity defections, rape accusations & church closings rock secretive sci-fi faith
SCIENTOLOGY is facing a series of crises that could wipe the church off the face of the Earth, according to sources who’ve told The National ENQUIRER the religion’s followers are rebelling over the organization’s stringent pandemic protocols, the upcoming rape trial of zealot actor Danny Masterson and exposure to the faith’s deepest, darkest secrets. “Scientology is imploding!” proclaimed former member Chris Shelton, who now works to rehabilitate people who have fled the controversial church. Shelton insisted the religion founded by sci-fi writer L.
Ron Hubbard is losing its Hollywood luster!
Insiders claimed A-listers who seem to be drifting away from the cult-like organization include:
Q TOM CRUISE, who only flew into Clearwater, Fla. — where he has a penthouse next to the church’s global headquarters — for a brief stay over the year-end holidays, according to sources. The Scientology poster boy quickly headed back to his main base in London, claimed insiders.
Q “Cheers” actress KIRSTIE ALLEY has deserted the Florida base for Kansas and is no longer a highly visible church member.
Q “Saturday Night Fever” icon JOHN TRAVOLTA hasn’t spoken publicly about the church for years and sold his home near the Florida HQ last year.
Q TV personality GRETA VAN SUSTEREN is another once vocal proponent of Scientology who hasn’t publicly uttered a word about the church in recent years.
Q “Natural Born Killers” beauty JULIETTE LEWIS recently confirmed she is no longer a practicing Scientologist.
Q “Orange Is the New Black” actress LAURA PREPON announced last year she’d secretly defected from the church five years earlier.
Q Devout follower actress ELISABETH MOSS brushed off questions about her religion in a 2019 interview.
However, “That
’70s Show” star
Masterson is the biggest threat to the organization, sources said. He’s accused of raping three female Scientologists — and the secretive religion’s culture and usagainst-them mentality loomed large in pre-trial hearings, sources said. The faith is expected to be a central part of the case moving forward. Masterson has pleaded not guilty to all charges but faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Insiders noted not even one Scientologist has spoken out to defend him so far.
Along with his accusers, sources predicted many trial witnesses will be affiliated with the church. One issue concerns how the accusers were said to be encouraged by their Scientology handlers
not to tell police about the alleged assaults and, instead, let church officials deal with the situation internally and out of the limelight. Sources said this could open up a can of worms about the church’s inner workings.
“If Masterson is found guilty, the church is finished,” declared defector Skip
Press, who once headed Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Center. “It will be well known to the public that the church worked hard to discredit women who made these accusations. People would have to ask, ‘What else is Scientology covering up?’ ” Compounding Scientology’s woes are draconian COVID-19 protocols sources said are driving away followers in droves. Initially, the public health crisis was brushed off by church leader David Miscavige as “hysteria,” but he still took extreme measures to confront the threat.
Former member Aaron Smith-Levin revealed how all Scientologists are made to wear masks and gloves at all times when not in their own homes, and that the church is using a military-grade professional disinfectant called Decon-7 that has led to people having “severe reactions” like fainting, rashes, diarrhea, epileptic seizures, migraines and strokes. However, a church official said, “No one gets sick from Decon-7” and
branded claims to the contrary as “lies.”
A Scientology insider told Tonyortega.org all of the religion’s “Class V orgs” — its larger churches — were shut down for seven months in 2020. In some cases, it was a response to local government mandates. But it was not a legal requirement and a completely unprecedented move to cut off members from services and ministerial help for such an extended period of time, spies dished.
“It was bad before but with COVID it looks like about a third of existing Scientologists refuse to go into the churches because of the protocols and mandates,” said Shelton. Sources also insisted members have been instructed not to ask for religious exemptions from vaccines, which created a “huge uproar amongst the staff,” who mostly feel the demand goes against their teachings.
The Church of Scientology told The ENQUIRER it has produced and distributed numerous booklets and information about preventing COVID around the world and said, “The church takes no position on vaccination beyond following local and federal guidelines. Each parishioner makes his or her own decision regarding vaccination.”