NPR interviewed director Paul Haggis (who left the Church of Scientology after 35 years) in an audiocast titled The Church Of Scientology, Fact-Checked.
One of many Hollywood bigwigs in Scientology, the story of Haggis falling out with the secretive religion is big news after The New Yorker posted this story – THE APOSTATE – Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.
Haggis left the church mainly because some Scientologists supported California’s Proposition 8. Haggis felt it was discriminatory to gays and lesbians.
But his departure has blown up. The most important thread, in my opinion, is this detail about the life of L. Ron Hubbard:
… the founder of Scientology, had maintained that he was blind and a ‘hopeless cripple’ at the end of World War II — and that he had healed himself through measures that later became the basis of Dianetics, the 1950 book that became the basis for Scientology.
But checking American military records showed:
… there was no evidence that he had ever been wounded in battle or distinguished himself in any way during the war.
read more on the NPR blog – The Church Of Scientology, Fact-Checked
If Hubbard lied about that, what else is bogus about Scientology?
I’m disillusioned. 🙂
Rick McCharles 
http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/2011_0209fbi_eyeing_toms_ties_to_sect_big/srvc=home&position=also
Yes, Scientology seemed so righteous, dead-on and full of well-adjusted winners before now. 😉 I once took the Scientology personality test because some guy I liked in grade 10 invited me to do it. The questions were all perfectly suited to angst-ridden teenagers, like “Do you ever feel that nobody understands you?” and “Do you ever feel like you’re alone?” Of course any teen would answer yes. Luckily, I wasn’t too dumb to realize that, so when it came time to pay for my results, I passed. And thus we come to the marvellous, happy-go-lucky person I am today. 😉