1. Scientology has fought long battles for acceptance as a religion.

2. Scientology is a cereal-box religion, and reading Ron is an idle diversion that quickly becomes annoying.

3. Scientology circles were shaken by allegations that L. Ron Hubbard was dead and a group of opportunists were forging his signature.

4. Scientology has fought long battles for legal acceptance as a religion and has succeeded in many countries, including the United States.

5. Governments' antipathy to Scientology is almost as old as the organization.

6. In the rhetoric of Scientology, "suppressive persons"—or S.

7. The lessons of Hubbard's Church of Scientology are many.

8. Babbling about Scientology and displaying manic intensity on camera serves little purpose when you are famous.

9. In 1954 he founded the first Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C. By 1978 the organization claimed 38 U.S. churches, with 41 more abroad, and 172 "missions" and 5, 437, 000 members worldwide.

10. The Church of Scientology was officially founded in Los Angeles in February, 1954, by several devoted followers of Hubbard's work.

11. In the official Scientology literature, it is claimed that Hubbard was assigned by naval intelligence to infiltrate Parsons's occult group.

12. Previous targets included the Church of Scientology and the government of Zimbabwe.

13. Part of the school's curriculum is based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's "study technology."

14. According to a forthcoming book, "Inside Scientology," by the journalist Janet Reitman,(sentence dictionary) the sauna sessions can last up to five hours a day.

15. Burns and other officials said the issue is not whether Scientology is good or bad, benign or malevolent.

16. The couple, both active members of the powerful Church of Scientology, are still keen to adopt.

17. Her first public report, based partly on extensive interviews with Scientology dropouts, was issued in 1995.

18. In December, the Kohl government said it was setting up a central office to coordinate federal and state efforts against Scientology.

19. Anonymous rose to fame with a series of attacks on websites linked to the Church of Scientology and Gene Simmons, bassist with the rock group Kiss.

20. "This type of reporting, " he added, "is no different than reports by United States news outlets reporting on various cults, from David Koresh to Sun Myung Moon to Scientology . "

21. It's little more than a fancy small-scale version of a Scientology e-meter, a gadget that picks up on noise in the environment and makes a needle on a dial wiggle.

22. "For ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego, " Haggis wrote.

23. The initials stand for L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, whose extensive writings and lectures form the church's scripture.

24. The anchor John Roberts asked Davis about the church's policy of "disconnection," in which members are encouraged to separate themselves from friends or family members who criticize Scientology.

25. In the process, he developed the "research" that led him to discover "Dianetics" and Scientology, the answers to most of mankind's ills.

26. On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis.

27. The decision to cast Cruise in the role has caused anger in Germany because of his strong links to the Church of Scientology , which is regarded here as a sect.

28. "When you started off, they weren't really pushing it, but as you progressed through the Playhouse's levels Scientology became more of a focus," he told me.

29. He had convinced himself that a "central agency" was behind attacks against Scientology, and his suspicion focused on the World Federation for Mental Health.

30. "It's not a sense of humor you often encounter among people who believe in Scientology, " Herskovitz continued.

31. In his resignation letter, Haggis explained to Davis that, for the first time, he had explored outside perspectives on Scientology.

32. Hubbard *did* start his own 'religion, ' calling it the "Church of Scientology, " and it has grown into an enterprise today grossing an estimated $100 million a year worldwide.

33. Like the courses at the Playhouse, Scientology offered actors a method that they could apply to both their lives and their careers.

33. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

34. Will Smith has hit back at claims that he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have been recruited by the Church of Scientology.

35. "It was one guy who somehow got it in his head it would be a neat idea and put Church of Scientology San Diego on the list," Davis told me.

36. Hubbard had boasted that Scientology had raised some people's I.Q. one point for every hour of auditing.

37. In "Introduction to Scientology Ethics," Hubbard defined disconnection as "a self-determined decision made by an individual that he is not going to be connected to another.

38. "A core concept in Scientology is: 'Something isn't true unless you find it true in your own life, ' " she told me.

39. That I would never do a favor for the church of scientology founded by a loony called L. Ron Hubbard.

40. Scientology seemed to him less a religion than a set of useful principles for living.

41. The Church of Scientology had recently gained tax-exempt status as a religious institution, making donations, as well as the cost of auditing, tax-deductible.

42. He said the song is a symbol of their love and Scientology is a basis for their companionship.

43. To Haggis's friends, his resignation from the Church of Scientology felt like a very public act of betrayal.

44. They include: Women, Scientology, the United States Tax code, Chinese telegraph code, Microsoft Visio 2004, and Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

45. If you hurt yourself, the first thing I and other Scientology kids do is go quiet.

46. Haggis opened the book and saw a page stamped with the words "Church of Scientology."

47. Scientology preaches that, if you touch the wound to the object that caused the injury and silently concentrate, the pain lessens and a sense of trauma fades.

48. The implication, Haggis said, was that he could "pick and choose" which tenets of Scientology to believe.