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A Billion Years My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Mike Rinder

One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir. Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract a...

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The Megyn Kelly Show

Mike Rinder detailed his experience growing up in the highest ranks of Scientology, the challenges of leaving, and the abuse he faced after departing the church. He also included stories of well-known Scientologists, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

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In his new book out today called A Billion Years, My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, he details it all, including incredible stories about Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, John Travo...

— Episode: Escaping Scientology, Tom Cruise's Impac...

Episode: Escaping Scientology, Tom Cruise's Impact, and a P...

Mike Rinder detailed his experience growing up in the highest ranks of Scientology, the challenges of leaving, and the abuse he faced after departing the church. He also included stories of well-known Scientologists, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

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In his new book out today called A Billion Years, My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, he details it all, including incredible stories about Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta and what happened the one time he tried to lure Michael Jackson into the church.

Scientology denies all of this I'm sure Tom Cruise does too um why should people be thinking like what how should they be thinking about the Church of Scientology you know you hear a lot of like well Catholics believe in crazy things too so do Jews so do Muslims you know what what makes Scientology different

I'm in in some ways it's not really that different but what makes it different is as we talked about earlier your tax your tax taxes are being used to subsidize the activities of Scientology and while you could say your tax dollars are being used to subsidize the activities of the Catholic Church or the Presbyterians or the Baptist or whoever and everybody's got problems nobody has institutionalized abuse and formalized the policies of the organization to attack destroy and abuse people like Scientology especially those who leave the church

I said one time and a lot of people have quoted me since saying the real way to tell the difference between a religion and a cult is what happens to you after you leave

you've got to buy it it's called a billion years my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology

Episode: The Value of Having Faith, Heaven and Hell, and Be...

Megyn Kelly mentioned Mike Rinder's new book about his experiences in Scientology, including his time in the Sea Org, and his reasons for leaving the organization.

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And that is Mike Rinder, who was a Scientologist and he was high up in Scientology.

He was part of Sea Org, which is like the Graham Puba section of Scientology.

He's out with a new book called a billion years.

It's about his life in the church.

Why he left.

He dishes on celebrities like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and much, much more.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

It was mentioned as an incendiary read, where Leah Remini discussed the casting of Friends, specifically Courtney Cox for the role of Monica.

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wait who's leah remini who i know of the king of queens the wife of the king of queens scientist i cheat her former Scientologist you don't like her i hate her and i hate kevin james definitely gotta...

— Episode: "Can We Talk About Nicolette?" (w/ Pat R...

Episode: "Can We Talk About Nicolette?" (w/ Pat Regan)

It was mentioned as an incendiary read, where Leah Remini discussed the casting of Friends, specifically Courtney Cox for the role of Monica.

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wait who's leah remini who i know of the king of queens the wife of the king of queens scientist i cheat her former Scientologist you don't like her i hate her and i hate kevin james definitely gotta say kevin james no thanks but leah remony i say thanks no she used me to my dad once she was tell us that's such a long island story tell the whole thing he used to work in ad sales for like um buy a common but for that for upn i think when like her or when i don't know what the king of queens was like syndicated on upn there but i don't know like what's it do with that but like i just know that he had to like be in her park somebody at some point and she was mean

she says that she was up for the role of monica and then she saw Courtney cox walk in and she was like we knew it was over

Episode: "Can We Talk About Nicolette?" (w/ Pat Regan)

It was described as an incendiary read, in which Leah Remini details her experiences in Scientology and claims that Courteney Cox was originally up for the role of Monica in Friends but lost it to Courteney Cox.

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wait who's leah remony who i know of the king of queens the wife of the king of queens scientist i cheat her former Scientologist you don't like her i hate her and i hate kevin james definitely gotta say kevin james no thanks but leah remony i say thanks no she used me to

she says that she was up for the role of monica and then she saw Courtney cox walk in and she was like we knew it was over

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Mike Rinder, a former high-ranking Scientologist, wrote a book about his experiences in the cult, including accounts of members being locked in a trailer and forced to lick the floor clean.

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Mike Rinder was one of the top Scientologists and he wrote a book recently, it was only out a few months ago, where he talks about exactly that kind of thing. They get put in a little room and the lea...

— Episode: 1017: The End of the World | Skeptical S...

Episode: 1017: The End of the World | Skeptical Sunday

Mike Rinder, a former high-ranking Scientologist, wrote a book about his experiences in the cult, including accounts of members being locked in a trailer and forced to lick the floor clean.

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Mike Rinder was one of the top Scientologists and he wrote a book recently, it was only out a few months ago, where he talks about exactly that kind of thing. They get put in a little room and the leader, David Miscavige, would just walk in and just punch them in the face every now and then until they started to admit to crimes that they hadn't committed, like mad insane crimes, and then he would sort of stop punching them quite as much.

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