When the Church examined this representation, it turned out to be a blatant lie-a straw man designed to falsely present Haggis as a man of character while framing Wright’s story through a distorted prism of principle. Haggis and Wright forwarded the story that Haggis left Scientology as a matter of principle because his daughters were discriminated against. Wright purported to premise his New Yorker article and his book on an apostate, Paul Haggis. While this otherwise would be a minor matter, it shines a spotlight on the fact that Wright lied when he said he decided to write about Scientology to explore the subject, tellingly exposing that Wright did not spend a nanosecond attempting to understand the religion. Wright states: “If the needle on the meter moves to the right, resistance is rising to the left, it is falling.” Yet, in reality it is the exact opposite. But Wright gets the most fundamental concepts of auditing and the E-Meter wrong. Wright’s ignorance on the subject of the Scientology religion is so acute, it is astonishing.Ĭase in point: on page 13 of the book, Wright attempts to describe how the E-Meter, a religious artifact used by a minister in the religious practice of auditing , works. Rather than examine and study the religion as he claims, Wright virtually ignores the subject except when he can distort it to present Scientology in a false light. Wright’s only criteria: whether the misinformation furthers his hidden agenda and is sensationalistic enough to alarm the misinformed and those new to the subject.Īlthough Wright states at the outset that the purpose of the book is to explore the subject of Scientology to objectively determine “what makes Scientology so popular to so many,” that statement represents nothing but the false premise of a propagandist. ![]() Wright sensationalizes these falsehoods by embellishing them and altering and collapsing time so that an incident rumored to have occurred 60, 50 or 30 years ago seems current. Wright repeats the most outrageous and salacious rumors of the past 60 years, taken from other books, tabloid media and the Internet-no matter how many times they have been disproven and discredited. Wright intended from the outset to unfairly attack the religion, its Founder and its religious leader and follow his toxic agenda in defiance of human rights principles prohibiting incitement to religious hatred and discrimination… Many of the most outrageous and sensationalistic statements in the book are made without any attribution whatsoever-in other words, Wright invented them out of whole cloth to further his fractured narrative. But even these discredited sources would not go as far as Wright wanted. Only discredited sources bent on lies and filled with prejudice are quoted. The book is uniformly derogatory and a compendium of falsehoods. ![]() As detailed below, the book is so rife with falsehoods, so replete with factual errors, and so hopelessly misinformed on the religion that it constitutes mind-boggling propaganda in the form of psychobabble. His book on Scientology masquerades as fact but in reality is pure fiction. Lawrence Wright is a master propagandist.
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