I was on TV for the first time today! Here is the link to my first televised interview. The Road to Reason is a local cable access television show in the Viriginia/Washington DC area. I was invited by the show’s producers to be on to speak about Scientology and my history with the organization. We didn’t get a chance to field any incoming phone calls because I was so busy answering the hosts’ questions for the whole time we had.
This show was a tremendous amount of fun to do and I can’t recommend getting out there and doing this kind of thing enough.
I hope you enjoy and I welcome any comments or feedback.
Chris, I am watching the show right now. May this be the first of many. Chris, I hope you become a go-to-guy when the media needs someone to talk about Scientology from a skeptical point of view.
You are well spoken, knowledgeable, experienced and above all moderate in voice and form. In short, you are believable.
Talking about you at the Underground Bunker…
http://tonyortega.org/2014/06/08/scientology-sunday-funnies-the-tom-cruise-history-lesson-edition/#comment-1425866998
+1. Mighty Korgo said it ! . This was great!
Great job Chris. It might be easy for me to attribute your talent to your scientology training, but I recently watched David Miscavage’s abysmal interview performance with Ted Kopel, so I would say that your talent is natural and unique to you.
I agree that critical thinking is the way to go in helping people get out of the “church”. There are so many scientifically ignorant things that cult members believe which would need all of the laws of physics to be broken for them to be true. Hubbard is right, and Einstein and the whole of science is wrong. We would need to re-write all the science books. Yet the laws of physics have been proven to a greater than 99.99999% certainty and are able to make predictions and work in the real world. Our understanding of them allows us to make computers, iphones and everything else. On the other hand, there is zero evidence for many of the things scientologists believe and mountains of evidence that they are not true.
For example (off the top of my head):
– The universe is trillions of years old
– you cause all that happens to you
– It is your fault if you get sick
– You had past lives, and will live again
– if you are critical of scientology, this is only because you have committed crimes.
– Hubbard is infallible.
– a “mind” can exist without a physical brain.
– mental telepathy is possible
– leaving your body is possible
– you can have superpowers
– the e-meter can read thoughts and is infallible.
(and many more — please add to this list)
If any of these magical powers were true why don’t they prove it and win a million dollars from the James Randi Educational Foundation? Because it is all bullsh*t.
I was thinking that a thorough scientific debunking of the capabilities of the e-meter might land a deadly blow to the cult because scientologists’ beliefs about the primitive devise’s infallible capabilities is a foundation of the whole “religion”.
A lie detector, which is much more advanced, is inadmissible in court because it works poorly and inconsistently. But yet this piece of crap is infallible. Why? Because Hubbard says so.
Way to go, Chris!
Excellent interview.
Keep up the great work.
Alanzo
That was awesome Chris. I remember reading Demon Haunted World from Carl Sagan after I my revelation about the faults of Scientology. His exploration of false memory syndrome explains much about the auditing of past lives in Scientology. I wrote him a letter saying as much. He wrote back and said my ideas on the subject were “most interesting.” All my friends found the letter most impressive.
Another awesome job Chris. Thank you.
I hate to be an echo here but I have to take a minute to agree that you were awesome. I would never guess this is the first time you’ve done this sort of thing. Some of your facial expressions were great, especially when describing the weird and creepy stuff. 🙂