Scientology - The Truth Rundown

June 21, 2009: Several former high-ranking members of the Church of Scientology have made a number of serious allegations against David Miscavige, the leader of the Church and its administrations. These allegations include:

• David Miscavige frequently assaulted any of his male subordinates who displeased him.
• He once threatened to scatter a group of senior managers to remote outposts of the church, splitting them from their families - except for the winner of a game of musical chairs played to the sound of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
• Staffers were disciplined and controlled by a multi­layered system of "ecclesiastical justice,'' which included publicly confessing sins and crimes to a group of peers, being ordered to jump into a pool fully clothed, facing embarrassing "security checks'' or being isolated as a "suppressive person.''
• Church members covered up how they botched the care of Lisa McPherson, an apparently mentally ill church member.
• The Church overwhelmed the Internal Revenue Service of the United States with lawsuits until they agreed to restore their tax-exempt status just to make the lawsuits stop.
• To increase revenues, the Church has urged its members to buy "must have" material, including religious texts.

The Church is strongly denying these accusations, describing the former members as malcontents.

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Game and Story Use

• True or not, these allegations can serve as a good inspiration for a Religion of Evil.
• The alleged behavior of the leader could also serve as inspiration for a Corrupt Corporate Executive who controls his corporation absolutely and terrorizes his subordinate managers.
  • Especially if you remove the religious aspects and introduce other dubious money-making schemes to make revenue, such as pyramid schemes.
    • Parallels with Amway will be left as an exercise to the reader.