One aspect of the Scientology® fraud is to claim that the corporation
has eight million "members." This claim is used heavilly in
the advertizements that the corporation places in magazines and other
venues in its attempts to depict its "Volunteer Minister"
front as some how being legitimate and "recognized."
Obviously the Scientology corporation has at most some 40,000 current
customers, few of which could be considered to be "members."
So why does the notoriously criminal corporation persist in its claims
to have some eight million customers?
Forrest Sawyer, on ABC Nightline, Feb. 14, 1992 interviewing Heber
Jentzsch, President, Church of Scientology:
Jentzsch: Because they joined and they came in and they studied
Scientology.
Sawyer: They took one course, maybe.
Jentzsch: Well, that's how valuable the course is. Eight million
people, yes, over a period of the last- since 1954.
Anyone who has ever purchased a Scientology book or got rooked in to
purchasing a Scientology "course" since 1954 is being counted
as a "member" of the Scientology corporation.
Even granting the absurd notion that the criminal enterprise has some
how managed to rook and swindle 125,000 people every year for the past
64 years, to suggest that people who accidentally purchase a Scientology
book is some how a "member" of the criminal enterprise is
doubly absurd.
Sawyer. How do you get to call them members?
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