{"id":4860,"date":"2011-02-18T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2011-02-18T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T19:18:49","slug":"the-apostate-paul-haggis-vs-the-church-of-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4860","title":{"rendered":"The Apostate:&nbsp; Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paul_Haggis-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Lawrence Wright spent over a year assembling evidence that makes it quite clear that  Scientology is a cult rather than a religion.&nbsp; At the center of the story is, Paul Haggis, one of Hollywood&#8217;s most creative writers and producers, who spent 35 years climbing up the ladders of scientology. Haggis is the proverbial &#8220;smoking gun.&#8221; In the end, Haggis loyalty to his gay daughter proved stronger than the brainwashing of Scientology. He quit Scientology and is now battling the &#8220;church&#8221; with all that he has got.&nbsp;  I cancelled my evening plans to be able to read this article from beginning to end in one sitting. Read the fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/02\/14\/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all\">story in the New Yorker<\/a>.&nbsp; It is the New Yorker at its very best. You don&#8217;t want to miss this report about how Scientology to date recruited and retained so successfully Hollywood celebrities. I am quite sure more federal law enforcement agencies will look more vigorously into the practices of Scientology after this expose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Wright spent over a year assembling evidence that makes it quite clear that Scientology is a cult rather than a religion.&nbsp; At the center <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4860\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paul_Haggis.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"116\" height=\"147\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}