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Scientology defector Mike Rinder on his memoir ‘A Billion Years’

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What Did You Do That Caused David Miscavige to Punch You in the Face?

Mike Rinder: In Scientology, it's not just everything you did wrong in this life. It also extends back to earlier lifetimes that you may have done something wrong. If you got hit by a car, then that means you hit someone with a car and you have to go back and find that incident and confess to it. But if you've never driven a car, you're 16 years old, you've never even driven a car yet. You start going into past lives where you ran over someone with a stagecoach or you squashed someone with a chariot back in Roman times.

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