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Cultish: Escaping Scientology Part 1

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I was born in New York to two Catholic parents, both of whom were of Italian descent. My father used to tell me that when they had their prenuptial counseling, they were told that if they didn't send their children to Catholic school, they would go to hell. And so I went to Catholic school for 13 years because I guess primarily they didn't want to going to hell. There's a difference between an apostate Christian communion or a communion that's fallen away from core doctrines and something that would be described as a cult. In Scientology, for example, the definition is they need to do groups centered around the Bible or uses the Bible and claims to be in line with

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